{"id":670390,"date":"2026-01-03T04:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:04:20","slug":"birmingham-city-defender-locke-joins-derby-county-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670390\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City defender Locke joins Derby County on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Birmingham City defender Ebonie Locke has joined FA Women\u2019s National League Northern Premier Division club Derby County on loan for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Blues confirmed the news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcfc.com\/pages\/en\/media-article\/ebonie-locke-joins-derby-county-on-loan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via a post on their official club website<\/a> this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old is a product of the Birmingham City academy system and she recently signed her first professional contract with the club. Locke has made two appearances for Blues so far but is finding minutes hard to come by given the strong competition for places at St. Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster needs regular game-time to push on at senior level and she will therefore hope to play an important role for loan club Derby County in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>After joining The Ewes on loan, Locke said \u201cI\u2019m excited for this new challenge. I\u2019m ready to test myself and express myself at a new level in Tier 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, I can bring something different to the team here and have an impact to help us climb our way up the table in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a full-back who loves to join the attack. I also love the thrill of a one-v-one in defence and the battle of the game. I can\u2019t wait to get started and go out to fight for this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locke could make her Derby County debut against Loughborough Lightning on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>        About The Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1c70c5312cbbce8781ce26482ab2f2f9e73e142a712b69add1a4f6b885a2f75d.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pentland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am the editor and owner of the WSL Full-Time brand which I launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I am an accredited journalist with the FWA, SJA and AIPS. I have reported from various levels of men\u2019s and women\u2019s elite football since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City defender Ebonie Locke has joined FA Women\u2019s National League Northern Premier Division club Derby County on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[204148,855,12905,748,17303,393,204149,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-barclays-wsl2","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-city","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-derby-county","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fa-womens-national-league-northern-premier-division","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115829189066968579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}