Chelsea’s Millie Bright to retire at end of the season as club’s longest-serving player
Chelsea captain Millie Bright will retire at the end of the season after over a decade at the club. The 32-year-old will end her career as the Women’s Super League side’s longest-serving player, having made 314 appearances since joining in 2014 from Doncaster Belles. She has won 20 trophies with the reigning league champions and was a key part of their unbeaten campaign last season, captaining Chelsea across 36 games as they won a domestic treble of the league, League Cup and FA Cup.
The centre-
Chelsea captain Millie Bright will retire at the end of the season after over a decade at the club. The 32-year-old will end her career as the Women’s Super League side’s longest-serving player, having made 314 appearances since joining in 2014 from Doncaster Belles. She has won 20 trophies with the reigning league champions and was a key part of their unbeaten campaign last season, captaining Chelsea across 36 games as they won a domestic treble of the league, League Cup and FA Cup.
The centre-back’s decision comes a month after The Athletic reported that she wanted to leave upon her contract’s end at the close of the season, having rejected an extension. Bright will instead stay on at Chelsea as a trustee of their foundation, and as a club ambassador, the Stamford Bridge side announced on Wednesday. “Representing Chelsea over the last 12 years has been everything to me, but I’m now ready to say goodbye to playing football,” Bright said in a release on the club’s website.
“I’ve given all I can, and I never wanted to fight for any other badge. It is now time, and I’m ready to go into a new era. “I’m always going to be Chelsea, but just in a different way.