Australia forward, whose contract was running out this summer, agrees to stay at the club she joined in 2020
Sam Kerr has signed a contract extension at Chelsea with the new deal keeping her at the club until 2026. The Australia forward’s contract was running out this summer and there had been speculation that she would leave west London after four-and-a-half years.
The news will be a significant boost to the new manager, Sonia Bompastor, who is replacing Emma Hayes this summer. There had been fears that there would be an exodus of players following the departure of the popular Hayes, who has taken over as UN national team coach, but the only players who have left are Fran Kirby, Maren Mjelde and Ann-Katrin Berger.at Chelsea’s warm-weather training camp in Morocco. It ruled her out for the rest of the domestic season as well as the Paris Olympics.
Kerr has won 10 trophies since Kerr signed, winning the league five times, the FA Cup three times and the League Cup twice. The forward has also won the Golden Boot twice, was runner-up to Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí at the Ballon d’Or awards last year and finished third on the Guardian’s list of the top 100 female footballers in 2021 and 2022.
In March Kerr was charged with racially aggravated harassment of a London police officer. The 30-year-old is facing charges of intentionally causing “racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to a police officer” after a night out with teammates in London in January 2023. She denies the charges.
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