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Chelsea goalkeeper Femke Liefting has joined Ajax on loan for the entire 2026\/27 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 21-year-old returns to the Netherlands as she looks to secure regular minutes and rebuild momentum after two injury-disrupted campaigns.<\/p>\n Liefting joined Chelsea from AZ Alkmaar in January 2025 on a three-and-a-half-year contract.<\/p>\n However, she suffered a foot injury shortly after arriving and did not make a competitive appearance during her first months with the Blues.<\/p>\n The Netherlands youth international then joined Newcastle United on loan ahead of last season.<\/p>\n She started seven matches for the Women\u2019s Super League 2 club before a hip injury suffered in November ruled her out for the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n Chelsea\u2019s official announcement confirmed that Liefting will spend the new season with Ajax, allowing her to continue her development in familiar surroundings.<\/p>\n Liefting already had considerable senior experience before arriving in London.<\/p>\n She made more than 50 appearances in the Dutch league and received two senior Netherlands call-ups after representing her country at under-17, under-19 and under-20 level.<\/p>\n Ajax have confirmed the agreement is a season-long loan and will add Liefting to their goalkeeping options for the coming campaign.<\/p>\n Chelsea will hope regular football helps the goalkeeper move beyond the injury problems that have slowed her progress.<\/p>\n As Read Chelsea recently reported, the club are also assessing another temporary move for Gabriel Slonina as they manage the development of their younger goalkeepers.<\/p>\n Liefting remains under contract at Chelsea until 2028. A productive season with Ajax could put her back in contention for a future role in the Blues\u2019 goalkeeping department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea goalkeeper Femke Liefting has joined Ajax on loan for the entire 2026\/27 season. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","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=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ajax move gives Liefting fresh opportunity<\/h2>\n