{"id":8984,"date":"2026-05-16T04:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:06:17","slug":"striker-kerr-to-leave-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8984","title":{"rendered":"Striker Kerr to leave Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sam Kerr \u2013 Chelsea\u2019s all-time top scorer in the Women\u2019s Super League \u2013 is to leave the club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Australian striker, 32, will depart when her contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>She is set to make her 178th and final appearance for Chelsea in the home match against Manchester United on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr was signed in November 2019 and has scored 115 goals for the Blues, winning five WSL titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and the Community Shield during her time at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I reflect on my Chelsea career and doing it for the last time, I just feel happy,\u201d said Kerr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy that it happened, and I feel so grateful to have played for this club for six years and won as many trophies as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Kerr \u2013 Chelsea\u2019s all-time top scorer in the Women\u2019s Super League \u2013 is to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","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\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}