{"id":13644,"date":"2026-06-04T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:44:05","slug":"contract-updates-15-players-to-depart-this-summer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=13644","title":{"rendered":"Contract updates: 15 players to depart this summer | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Ahead of the official Premier League announcement of all men\u2019s players who will be out of contract at their current clubs on June 30, 2026, we are taking this opportunity to say thank you to the following players who will be leaving us when their contracts are completed at the end of the month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This includes men\u2019s players and scholars who have represented the club at first-team, under-21 and under-18 levels, as well as some of our women\u2019s squad, whom we have previously announced will be departing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Players are presented in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sam Chapman<br \/>Laia Codina<br \/>Harrison Dudziak<br \/>Seb Ferdinand<br \/>Cam\u2019ron Ismail<br \/>Will Lannin-Sweet<br \/>Katie McCabe<br \/>Beth Mead<br \/>Josh Nichols<br \/>Samuel Onyekachukwu<br \/>Victoria Pelova<br \/>Alexei Rojas-Fedorushchenko<br \/>Barbora Votikova<br \/>Naomi Williams<br \/>Manuela Zinsberger<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition, please note that the following players\u2019 contracts also expire on June 30, 2026. Discussions are ongoing, and once matters are finalised between all parties, we will communicate in due course.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Caitlin Foord<br \/>Aleksander Marciniak<br \/>Joshua Ogunnaike<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We thank all the players leaving us for their contributions to the club. You will always be part of the Arsenal family and we wish you all the best of health and happiness in your futures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Any further developments regarding players extending their contracts, joining\/re-joining, or leaving us will be officially communicated once confirmed.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"0d9b056c-2ae7-4dae-a6d4-845a40bada41\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"127868\" about=\"\/news\/beth-mead-leave-club-end-season\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Beth Mead to leave club at end of season\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Beth Mead to leave club at end of season <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the official Premier League announcement of all men\u2019s players who will be out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}