{"id":699166,"date":"2026-01-16T05:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:02:33","slug":"leicester-city-sign-manchester-uniteds-veteran-forward-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699166\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City sign Manchester United’s veteran forward Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Leicester City have completed the signing of Manchester United\u2019s veteran forward Rachel Williams on an 18-month deal.<\/p>\n

WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official club press release from The Foxes this evening.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old forward returns to the club where she started out in her youth 26 years ago. Williams broke into the first team at Leicester City and she is now set to begin her third spell with her hometown club.<\/p>\n

Williams has a wealth of experience at Barclays Women\u2019s Super League level. She has played in England\u2019s top tier for 15 years in spells with Birmingham City, Chelsea, Notts County, Birmingham City, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United.<\/p>\n

On the international stage, Williams has turned out for both England and Great Britain earlier in her career.<\/p>\n

After sealing her Leicester City return, Williams said \u201cI started my career here and I\u2019ve always said I\u2019d like to come back. Leicester is my hometown, I absolutely love Leicester and have always followed the Foxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I still have a lot to offer for the Club, and the opportunity to come back is something I\u2019ve been looking forward to doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams could make her Leicester City debut in the Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup fourth round tie against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.<\/p>\n

About The Author<\/p>\n

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Daniel Pentland<\/a><\/p>\n

I am the editor and owner of the WSL Full-Time brand which I launched in 2018.<\/p>\n

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":"Leicester City have completed the signing of Manchester United\u2019s veteran forward Rachel Williams on an 18-month deal. WSL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[192459,748,393,4884,200,2465,98,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-699166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-barclays-womens-super-league","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leicester-city","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-united","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115903027251629929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699166","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=699166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}