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<\/p>\nSydney FC can confirm Abbey Lemon, Caley Tallon-Henniker and Sofia Fante will depart the club ahead of the Ninja A-League Women 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
Lemon leaves the Sky Blues after four seasons with the club, having made 63 appearances since her debut in November 2022, including 41 starts.<\/p>\n
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The versatile 24-year-old defender \/ forward was part of one of the most successful periods in Sydney FC Women\u2019s history, helping the Sky Blues win back-to-back Championships in 2023 and 2024 as well as the 2022-23 Premiership.<\/p>\n
Winger Tallon-Henniker also departs following three seasons in Sky Blue. The 20-year old forward made 43 appearances for Sydney FC after debuting in November 2023, scoring four goals during her time with the club and winning the Championship in 2024.<\/p>\n
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Young goalkeeper Sofia Fante will also leave the club after being part of the Sky Blues\u2019 senior squad during the 2025-26 campaign. 18-year old Fante was named among the substitutes on two occasions but did not make her senior debut.<\/p>\n
Sydney FC Women\u2019s Head Coach James Slaveski thanked all three players for their contribution.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbbey, Caley and Sofia have all been fantastic members of our group and I\u2019d like to thank them for everything they have given to Sydney FC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAbbey and Caley have both spent a number of years at the club and contributed to some memorable moments and successes, while Sofia is a talented young goalkeeper who has worked extremely hard within our environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been excellent teammates and professionals, and everyone at Sydney FC wishes them every success with the next chapters of their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sydney FC thanks Abbey, Caley and Sofia for their service to the club and wishes them all the very best for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney FC can confirm Abbey Lemon, Caley Tallon-Henniker and Sofia Fante will depart the club ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9321,1411,7145,247,1643],"class_list":["post-80563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-alw","tag-latest-news","tag-press-release","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}