Beth Mead will leave Arsenal at the end of the season

England forward Beth Mead will leave Arsenal at the end of the season after nine years, the Women’s Super League club said on Monday.

Mead, who scored 86 goals in 263 appearances for Arsenal, helped the club win the WSL in 2018/19 and set up the goal that won the Women’s Champions League final against Barcelona last season.

“Beth has made a huge contribution to our football club over the last nine years and will go down in history as one of our best strikers and a legend of the club,” said Clare ‌Wheatley, Arsenal’s director of women’s football.

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The 31-year-old former Sunderland player was also part of the England squad that won back-to-back European Championships, but she missed the 2023 World Cup due to a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.

Mead, the only player with more than 50 goals and 50 assists in WSL history, also suffered a hairline fracture in February that sidelined her for five weeks.

She has started just 10 WSL games this season, while Arsenal are one point behind Chelsea in second place and seven points behind champions Manchester City with a game in hand.

Arsenal, who are trying to clinch a guaranteed Champions League qualification spot with a top-two finish, close the season against visitors Everton and Liverpool this week.

Arsenal’s 26-year-old Dutch midfielder Victoria Pelova, who joined the north London club in 2023, will also leave at the end of the season.

Published on May 11, 2026