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End of an era as Bonner leaves Reds

Liverpool FC Women can confirm Gemma Bonner and Gemma Evans will leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 campaign.

The pair will bid farewell on Saturday at Anfield in the Barclays Women's Super League season finale with Arsenal.  

Bonner departs as a bona fide Reds legend and its all-time leading appearance maker in the WSL era, having played in 186 games across two spells. The centre half captained the club to back-to-back league titles in 2013 and 2014 before returning for a second stint in January 2023.

She set a new appearance record in November of that year by surpassing Ashley Hodson's previous best of 134, leading to a dressing room at the Kirkby Academy being renamed in her honour.

Vastly experienced and talented, Bonner was an important figure in the Liverpool side that re-established themselves in the top flight with finishes of seventh and fourth in 2022-23 and 2023-24 respectively. The 34-year-old was on the scoresheet five times in the second chapter of her Reds career, two of which came in a thrilling 4-3 victory against Chelsea at Prenton Park in May 2024.

Injury has limited her to ten outings in the current campaign – the tenth one she has been involved in at the club.

Evans, meanwhile, signs off two years on from her arrival from Manchester United. The Wales international has appeared 38 times, to date, across her pair of seasons on Merseyside – both of which have included runs to the semi-finals of the Adobe Women's FA Cup.

The versatile defender opened her goalscoring account this past September against Sunderland in the Women's League Cup and then followed that up with a close range finish at London Bees in the Women's FA Cup fourth round in early 2026.

Supporters have the chance to pay their tributes to the departing duo this weekend, when the Gunners visit L4.