Former Arsenal player Thomas Partey has pleaded not guilty to two new charges of rape

Former Arsenal player Thomas Partey plans to plead not guilty to two new rape charges, his lawyer told a London court on Friday.

The 32-year-old Ghanaian midfielder, who now plays for Spanish club Villarreal, is separately awaiting trial on five charges of rape involving two women and one charge of sexual assault involving a third woman.

The new charges were filed after another woman alleged Partey raped her twice on the same day in December 2020. According to a court hearing on Friday, the new allegations arose after the first set of charges were made public.

Partey was not required to attend the preliminary hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday. His attorney, Emma Fenn, indicated he plans to plead not guilty to both charges. The next hearing date for the case is April 10.

Partey pleaded not guilty to the first set of charges and will be tried at Southwark Crown Court in November. Those alleged crimes occurred between 2021 and 2022, prosecutors say.

The midfielder came to Arsenal from Atletico Madrid in 2020.

He was initially charged last July, just days after his Arsenal contract expired. Villarreal signed him in August, two days after he was granted bail.

Ghana has qualified for the World Cup and is in the same group as England, Croatia and Panama.

Partey played three World Cup qualifiers in September and October. Lihat juga tsn5. He played more than fifty matches for Ghana.

Published on March 13, 2026