arsenal women have made it official they have signed 24 year old german goalkeeper anneke borbe on a permanent deal this summer after her contract with vfl wolfsburg expired the move is arsenal’s third free transfer of the summer as they look to strengthen their squad for the 2025 26 women’s super league season borbe will wear the number 28 shirt in north london she comes with a growing reputation after impressing at wolfsburg she started in their development side but broke into the first
team in november 2024 making her debut in a 4 1 german cup win over mainz by february 2025 she had nailed down the number one spot for wolfsburg starting all 14 of their remaining matches they finished second in the frauen bundesliga and made it to the uefa women’s champions league quarter finals she played 15 games across all competitions with 10 in the league and 3 in europe she spoke about the move with excitement saying she was really proud to join such an amazing club and that it was an incredible opportunity to be part of arsenal at
such an exciting time she said she was looking forward to getting to work with her teammates and playing in front of the supporters at emirates stadium borbe’s journey to arsenal started at werder bremen where she made her debut aged 16 back in february 2017 she spent seven years there making 77 appearances helping them win promotion to germany’s top flight in the 2019 20 season she even won the player of the season award at bremen in 2022 before joining wolfsburg in 2023 although she hasn’t yet played for germany’s senior team she has represented them at under 23 level showing she has a lot of promise for the future arsenal head coach renee slegers was delighted with the signing saying they were happy to bring her to the club because she
had excellent qualities that would strengthen their goalkeeper unit ahead of next season clare wheatley the director of women’s football echoed those thoughts adding that anneke is a young keeper with significant potential and they were very pleased to bring her in borbe’s arrival ramps up the competition in arsenal’s goalkeeping department which already includes daphne van domselaar regarded as one of europe’s top goalkeepers and manuela zinsberger her signing has sparked talk about zinsberger’s future since the austrian’s contract is close to expiring and other european clubs are reportedly showing interest borbe’s move also shows arsenal’s ambitions after they won the uefa women’s champions league in may 2025 beating barcelona 1 0 in the final at camp nou she talked about the scale of arsenal calling it massive and said she was excited to contribute to the club’s continued success she mentioned how the goalkeeper union is like a team within the team and said she was really looking forward to meeting everyone and getting started she will be hoping to settle quickly in north london and compete for the starting spot bringing her experience from germany’s top division and european competition arsenal fans will be keen to see how she does especially given the club’s desire to stay at the top of
women’s football in england and in europe after their recent champions league triumph the signing continues arsenal’s strategy of smart recruitment bringing in talent for free while planning for the future ensuring the team has depth and competition in every position as they look to build on their success and challenge for more trophies in the coming seasons
