England forward Beth Mead has signed a new contract with Arsenal

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Beth Mead named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2022

England guardant Beth Mead has signed a caller declaration with Arsenal.

Mead, 27, joined the Gunners from Sunderland successful 2017 and has scored 61 goals successful 166 appearances.

She helped England triumph Euro 2022 successful the summertime - earning the Golden Boot and being named Player of the Tournament - but is presently recovering from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

"This nine is location for me," said Mead aft signing what is understood to beryllium a multiple-year contract.

"I've grown truthful overmuch present arsenic a subordinate and a idiosyncratic and I cognize we tin execute truthful overmuch much unneurotic successful the years to come.

"I privation to vie to triumph the biggest trophies successful the crippled and I cognize that the ambitions astatine Arsenal lucifer my own.

"I can't hold to get backmost onto the transportation and assistance to present the occurrence our supporters deserve."

Mead helped Arsenal triumph the Women's League Cup successful 2017-18 and the Women's Super League rubric successful 2018-19.

She scored six goals and claimed 5 assists during Euro 2022, aft registering 14 goals and 19 assists from 40 games for Arsenal during 2021-22.

That signifier saw her voted BBC Women's Footballer of the Year and she was besides runner-up for this year's Ballon d'Or.

"In her 5 years with our club, Beth has grown into 1 of the champion footballers successful the world," said Clare Wheatley, Arsenal's caput of women's football.

"Her signifier implicit the past play has reached caller heights.

"We were each truthful arrogant to ticker her execute her dreams successful the summertime and we are looking guardant to welcoming her backmost to the transportation to prosecute much occurrence with Arsenal."

Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall added: "It's fantastic quality that we person agreed a caller woody with Beth. She is simply a world-class footballer and has proven that connected the biggest signifier of them all.

"I person truthful overmuch admiration for the mode she has handled occurrence and adversity connected and disconnected the transportation implicit the past fewer years, and I'm definite she volition attack the adjacent fewer months with the affirmative cognition we each cognize Beth for."

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