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LCFC Women 2025/26 Season

By moore_94, in Leicester City Forum

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lcfcrinaldi

lcfcrinaldi

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7 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Swaby announces she’s leaving. 
 

Would have looked at Neve Herron at Birmingham to replace her but she’s now a league above!! 

Can't say I'm too upset about that. At times looked solid, but mostly just slow and lumbering.

Jimmy

Jimmy

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10 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Swaby announces she’s leaving. 
 

Would have looked at Neve Herron at Birmingham to replace her but she’s now a league above!! 

Swaby was hardly ever fit, so its no real loss

SK3Blue

SK3Blue

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37 minutes ago, lcfcrinaldi said:

Never looked like she enjoyed being with or connected with the club too.

If you're not arsed, cya!

Agreed, gave the impression from the off and was consistent with it. 

davieG

davieG

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We can confirm that LCFC Women trio Hannah Cain, Chantelle Swaby and Rosella Ayane will leave the Football Club upon the expiration of their contracts in June.

 

Hannah Cain set to leave LCFC Women after six seasons
Chantelle Swaby leaves the Football Club after two campaigns
Rosella Ayane departs following one season at King Power Stadium
Extension options activated with Olivia Clark and Celeste Boureille
Forward Cain departs LCFC Women after six years at King Power Stadium, and having made 89 appearances in City colours since joining from Everton in the summer of 2020.
A key figure in our recent history, Hannah played an important role in securing the Championship title and promotion to the Barclays Women’s Super League in 2021, before helping us compete across five consecutive seasons in the women’s top flight.
Swaby leaves the Football Club having made 31 appearances in two years on Filbert Way following a move from French Première Ligue side FC Fleury 91 in June 2024.
Ayane, meanwhile, will also leave us upon the expiration of her contract. The striker made 14 appearances in 25/26 having joined us as a free-agent last summer.
We are pleased to confirm that extension options have been activated on the contracts of goalkeeper Olivia Clark and defender Celeste Boureille to extend their LCFC Women stay for at least another year.
The Club remains in negotiations with talented youngster Denny Draper with a contract offer issued to the 19- year-old.
We would like to place on record our sincere appreciation to Hannah, Chantelle and Rosella as they leave the Football Club this summer and wish them the very best for the next chapter of their careers.

lcfcrinaldi

lcfcrinaldi

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1 hour ago, davieG said:

We can confirm that LCFC Women trio Hannah Cain, Chantelle Swaby and Rosella Ayane will leave the Football Club upon the expiration of their contracts in June.

 

Hannah Cain set to leave LCFC Women after six seasons
Chantelle Swaby leaves the Football Club after two campaigns
Rosella Ayane departs following one season at King Power Stadium
Extension options activated with Olivia Clark and Celeste Boureille
Forward Cain departs LCFC Women after six years at King Power Stadium, and having made 89 appearances in City colours since joining from Everton in the summer of 2020.
A key figure in our recent history, Hannah played an important role in securing the Championship title and promotion to the Barclays Women’s Super League in 2021, before helping us compete across five consecutive seasons in the women’s top flight.
Swaby leaves the Football Club having made 31 appearances in two years on Filbert Way following a move from French Première Ligue side FC Fleury 91 in June 2024.
Ayane, meanwhile, will also leave us upon the expiration of her contract. The striker made 14 appearances in 25/26 having joined us as a free-agent last summer.
We are pleased to confirm that extension options have been activated on the contracts of goalkeeper Olivia Clark and defender Celeste Boureille to extend their LCFC Women stay for at least another year.
The Club remains in negotiations with talented youngster Denny Draper with a contract offer issued to the 19- year-old.
We would like to place on record our sincere appreciation to Hannah, Chantelle and Rosella as they leave the Football Club this summer and wish them the very best for the next chapter of their careers.

Shame to see Hannah go, I dont think she's been very effective at all in the WSL, but she clearly has it in her locker a bit as she shines for Wales quite often. It was optimistic to think we could keep her, but she could have been great in the WSL2.

 

Not bothered about Ayanne and Swaby though...

Jimmy

Jimmy

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On 01/06/2026 at 20:33, coolhandfox said:

Hannah Cain should have been sacked for having an relentionship with the manager.

 

Lack of standards by the club.

You can't sack her as they weren't allowed to name the "victim" of Kirk's misconduct 

bellab

bellab

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Fair play to Hannah for ploughing on after everything came out. Not sure if she's still with him but deffo was for a good while. Be interesting to see where she goes next.

 

Just to pick up some previous comments on 'culture', can whole heartedly agree that this really needs to change and improve throughout the whole club. Personal experience of having a daughter involved with the academy recently clearly shows that this filters down to that level too. They have 'released' the whole squad of one of the age groups. Awful communications. Senior members of staff critising other staff openly to parents. Girls being favoured for reasons not necessarily linked to ability. They really don't care about developing players but just want to find one or two stand out players while putting on a front of being amazing with all the facilities, when in all honesty the coaching and the way they operate is really not all that. I'd be thinking very carefully of wanting to put a child into that set up particularly now with all the uncertainty about funding. And i think that many talented girls will be looking elsewhere because of all this.

 

As has been mentioned even their academy graduates that were thought so highly of were shipped out elsewhere. Would have been more beneficial for Nelly to have stayed and played more this season to get the exposure at that level. Wonder who is making these decisions?!

lcfcrinaldi

lcfcrinaldi

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5 hours ago, bellab said:

Fair play to Hannah for ploughing on after everything came out. Not sure if she's still with him but deffo was for a good while. Be interesting to see where she goes next.

 

Just to pick up some previous comments on 'culture', can whole heartedly agree that this really needs to change and improve throughout the whole club. Personal experience of having a daughter involved with the academy recently clearly shows that this filters down to that level too. They have 'released' the whole squad of one of the age groups. Awful communications. Senior members of staff critising other staff openly to parents. Girls being favoured for reasons not necessarily linked to ability. They really don't care about developing players but just want to find one or two stand out players while putting on a front of being amazing with all the facilities, when in all honesty the coaching and the way they operate is really not all that. I'd be thinking very carefully of wanting to put a child into that set up particularly now with all the uncertainty about funding. And i think that many talented girls will be looking elsewhere because of all this.

 

As has been mentioned even their academy graduates that were thought so highly of were shipped out elsewhere. Would have been more beneficial for Nelly to have stayed and played more this season to get the exposure at that level. Wonder who is making these decisions?!

Interesting to know, particularly considering their girls trials are this weekend.

Vlad the Fox

Vlad the Fox

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Will this double relegation and financial concerns affect the girls academy? Has anything been said? I know someone trialing. 

 

They lost a lot of good players and coaches a few years back when they did away with the acadamy teams and became an ETC, doing it on the cheap and doing the bare minimum they could get away with for it to be called an ETC. 

SK3Blue

SK3Blue

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8 hours ago, bellab said:

Fair play to Hannah for ploughing on after everything came out. Not sure if she's still with him but deffo was for a good while. Be interesting to see where she goes next.

 

Just to pick up some previous comments on 'culture', can whole heartedly agree that this really needs to change and improve throughout the whole club. Personal experience of having a daughter involved with the academy recently clearly shows that this filters down to that level too. They have 'released' the whole squad of one of the age groups. Awful communications. Senior members of staff critising other staff openly to parents. Girls being favoured for reasons not necessarily linked to ability. They really don't care about developing players but just want to find one or two stand out players while putting on a front of being amazing with all the facilities, when in all honesty the coaching and the way they operate is really not all that. I'd be thinking very carefully of wanting to put a child into that set up particularly now with all the uncertainty about funding. And i think that many talented girls will be looking elsewhere because of all this.

 

As has been mentioned even their academy graduates that were thought so highly of were shipped out elsewhere. Would have been more beneficial for Nelly to have stayed and played more this season to get the exposure at that level. Wonder who is making these decisions?!

I heard quite early on that Passmoor made the call on Las and Sherwood saying they were not part of the 25/26 plans. 
 

Baffling decision when you consider his senior pro’s failed miserably. 
 

I know one of the academy coaches that lost her job in the original cull a few years back, she pretty much said the same as your good self about the setup. 

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