Beth Mead has scored 86 goals in ⁠263 appearances for Arsenal. | Photo Credit: Reuters

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 ​has scored 86 goals in ⁠263 appearances for Arsenal, helped the club win the WSL in 2018-19 and set up the ‌goal that clinched victory in last season’s Women’s Champions League final against ‌Barcelona.

“Beth has made a huge contribution ‌to ⁠our football club over nine ⁠years, and will go down in history as one of our best forwards 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 an anterior cruciate ligament rupture.

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.

This term she has started only 10 WSL games as Arsenal sits a point behind second-placed Chelsea and seven adrift of champion Manchester ‌City with a game in hand.

Arsenal, which is ​trying to clinch a guaranteed Champions League qualifying spot with a top-two ⁠finish, concludes the season against visitor Everton ⁠and at Liverpool this week.

Arsenal’s 26-year-old Netherlands midfielder Victoria Pelova, who joined ‌the North London club in 2023, will also leave at the end of ​the campaign.

Published on May 11, 2026