{"id":5414,"date":"2026-05-07T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:20:24","slug":"naomi-williams-to-leave-the-club-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5414","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Williams to leave the club | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We can confirm that Naomi Williams will leave Arsenal when her contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi joined Arsenal at age of 13, progressing through our academy system before putting pen to paper on her first professional contract at the club in the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old goalkeeper has been a regular fixture in our matchday squads for a number of years, contributing as part of our wider goalkeeping unit as we won two League Cups, the UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League and the FIFA Champions Cup in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi spent the first half of the 2025\/26 season on loan at Bristol City, gaining valuable experience at Barclays Women\u2019s Super 2 level before returning to Arsenal in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at Arsenal Football Club thanks Naomi for her efforts during her time with us and we wish her well for her next chapter.<\/p>\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>We can confirm that Naomi Williams will leave Arsenal when her contract expires at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","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\/5414","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=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}