The attacker joins the Club from Arsenal, where she won the WSL title, a UEFA Champions League, the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup and three League Cups over a nine-and-a-half-year spell.
She’s also enjoyed huge success with England, grabbing 40 goals in 81 appearances as part of two European Championship-winning squads.
Joining City on a deal until the summer of 2029, Mead becomes the fifth player in our professional history to wear the number seven shirt, taking over ownership from the retiring Laura Coombs.
Krystle Johnstone was the first wearer of the shirt, doing so in the first two seasons of our professional era.
A member of our original Ladies team, she made 40 appearances across those two seasons, famously providing the cross for Izzy Christiansen’s winner in our League Cup final triumph over Arsenal in 2014.
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Sweden international Kosovare Asllani was its next owner, playing an important role in the Blues’ 2016 WSL title win and League Cup double.
Now at London City Lionesses, the forward left the Club after the 2017 Spring Series, with Melissa Lawley then becoming our third number seven for the next two seasons.
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Lawley featured 51 times for the Blues across the Spring Series, 2017/18 and 2018/19 campaigns, helping City win two FA Cups and the League Cup in the process.
Her departure in the summer of 2019 meant the shirt was again vacant until Coombs’ arrival from Liverpool, with the midfielder going on to enjoy seven stellar years at the Joie Stadium.
With 158 appearances and 28 goals to her name, Coombs has rightly gone down as one of the most popular players in our professional history and announced her retirement from the game in the final weeks of our WSL and FA Cup double-winning 2025/26 campaign.
Mead now becomes our latest number seven, with her shirt available to purchase by clicking here.
