Gunners captain Kim Little signs new deal with Arsenal 17 years on from joining women’s top-flight giants

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 Kim Little extends her declaration  with Arsenal Women astatine  Emirates Stadium connected  February 13, 2025 successful  London, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 13: Kim Little extends her declaration with Arsenal Women astatine Emirates Stadium connected February 13, 2025 successful London, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

KIM LITTLE hopes to savour much peculiar moments with Arsenal aft extending her declaration with the club.

The caller woody volition spot the seasoned Gunners skipper proceed her vocation with their WSL broadside until astatine slightest June 2026. 

 Kim Little extends her declaration  with Arsenal Women astatine  Emirates Stadium connected  February 13, 2025 successful  London, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)Kim Little says playing for Arsenal has brought her galore peculiar moments
 Beth Mead and Kim Little of Arsenal observe  with the Continental Tyres League Cup Trophy aft  their team's triumph  during the FA Women's Continental Tyres League Cup Final lucifer  betwixt  Arsenal and Chelsea astatine  Molineux connected  March 31, 2024 successful  Wolverhampton, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty/Getty Images) (Photo by Matt McNulty/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***The Gunners skipper hopes to triumph much silverware with the nine having them to triumph six league titles, 3 FA Cups and six league cups
 Alessia Russo and Kim Little of Arsenal during the Arsenal Women's grooming  league   astatine  Sobha Realty Training Centre connected  March 27, 2024 successful  London Colney, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)Little and her team-mates are owed to look Tottenham the WSL connected Sunday astatine the Emirates

It follows the nine exercising their enactment to widen her contract.  

Little, 34, who is acceptable to look Tottenham successful the WSL North London derby this Sunday, said: “I’m delighted to widen my declaration and play different twelvemonth with Arsenal. 

“It’s rather unsocial to play for a nine for the magnitude of clip I have, and I don’t instrumentality that for granted. 

“That clip brings galore peculiar moments, and I look guardant to making a fewer much of them.”

Little, who began her elder playing vocation with Scottish Women’s Premier League outfit Hibernian, joined the Gunners astatine 17 successful 2008.

The erstwhile Scotland playmaker, regarded arsenic 1 of the champion players of her generation, has gone connected to go the team’s 3rd highest quality maker.

Her silverware wins with the nine includes six league titles, 3 FA Cups and six Women’s League Cups

The player, who was awarded an MBE for services to shot successful 2023, has made 363 appearances for the team. 

Gunners women’s shot manager Clare Wheatley said: “Kim is 1 of the precise champion – arsenic a subordinate and arsenic our captain. 

“She continues to assistance thrust america guardant and acceptable standards connected and disconnected the pitch. 

“We worth Kim’s publication immensely, and I cognize our supporters volition beryllium thrilled that Kim’s Arsenal travel is continuing.”

Little, who has scored 174 times for Arsenal, began her shot travel playing for a superior schoolhouse boys’ squad successful Mintlaw, the colony wherever she grew up successful Aberdeenshire. 

Her elder nine vocation includes her archetypal Gunners stint from 2008 to 2013 earlier 2 seasons with US broadside Seattle reign and a one-term indebtedness spell astatine Australian outfit Melbourne City. 

After rejoining Arsenal successful 2017, Little went connected to assistance them triumph their 5th League Cup successful March 2018. 

This followed the midfielder recovering from a genu ligament rupture sustained successful May the twelvemonth before. 

In 2018-19 Little played 11 times successful the apical tier for the Arsenal broadside that won the WSL rubric nether their erstwhile gaffer Joe Montemurro. 

At contiguous their chances of a rubric triumph this word look slim with the squad 10 points down league leaders Chelsea.

However the Gunners are anxious to adhd much trophies to their postulation having reached the quarter-final stages of the Champions League and the FA Cup. 

Arsenal manager   Renee Slegers and Alessia Russo applaud fans.PA
Arsenal brag Renee Slegers says Kim Little has important relation to play successful her team’s trophy chase[/caption]

And caput manager Renee Slegers insists Little has a important relation to play successful Arsenal’s propulsion for much silverware 

The Gunners brag said: “Kim is simply a fantastic footballer and skipper and has an important portion to play successful the goals we privation to achieve. 

“I’ve learned truthful overmuch from moving with Kim and I’m looking guardant to that continuing arsenic we purpose to triumph trophies together.”

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