Killybegs native Seamus Coleman signs new Everton contract

Killybegs' Seamus Coleman, has signed a new one-year contract with Everton.

The contract signature allows the national team captain to play Everton’s first season in their new Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Coleman is now contracted up to June 2026, in what will be his 17th season with Everton since his £60,000 transfer from Sligo in 2009. 

The former St Catherine’s FC youth player has played 428 matches for Everton, making him their 12th highest appearance maker, as well as skippering the Liverpool-based outfit 137 times, and being capped by the national team in 73 matches. 

Coleman told evertonFC.com: “I love Everton so to continue playing for this special club means everything to me and my family.

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“Like every one of our passionate fans, I’ve lived and breathed what has been a difficult past few years for the club and have put my heart and soul into doing all I can to help us get through it.

“Thanks to the hard work of many people, we’ve been able to get into our magnificent new stadium and pave the way for a brighter future under ambitious new owners, which I want to be a part of.

“In David Moyes, we have the perfect manager to lead us into a new era. He showed his abilities once again with the way he had us playing after returning last season.

“As the man who brought me to Everton, I can’t speak highly enough of him. He gets this football club, the standards required every day, and what it means to play for Everton.

“He has helped stabilise the club since his return and we have a manager who cares about Everton as much as I do.”