KINGSTON – Chelsea has signed Reg­gae Girlz goal­keep­er Re­bec­ca Spencer on emer­gency loan from Tot­ten­ham for the rest of the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) sea­son.

Chelsea, the de­fend­ing WSL cham­pi­ons, moved to sign Spencer fol­low­ing a ma­jor in­jury to their goal­keep­er Femke Lieft­ing, with their oth­er goal­keep­er Ze­ci­ra Muso­vic re­cent­ly an­nounc­ing her preg­nan­cy.

The 34-year-old Spencer will be hop­ing to reignite her ca­reer with Chelsea – a club she pre­vi­ous­ly rep­re­sent­ed be­tween 2016 and 2018 where she won WSL and FA Cup ti­tles – hav­ing seen lim­it­ed game time un­der Tot­ten­ham head coach Robert Vi­la­hamn.

Spencer pre­vi­ous­ly played for Ar­se­nal, Not­ting­ham For­est, Gilling­ham, Soy­aux and Birm­ing­ham City, and was a key part of the Reg­gae Girlz’ his­toric run at the 2023 FI­FA Women’s World Cup.

Un­der league reg­u­la­tions, the club was able to re­cruit and reg­is­ter a re­place­ment out­side of the trans­fer win­dow.

In a state­ment, the club said it was ex­cit­ed to wel­come Spencer back in­to the fold.

“Every­one at Chelsea is de­light­ed to wel­come Becky back to the club, and we look for­ward to hav­ing her as part of the team for the rest of the sea­son,” the state­ment read.

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