Former Republic of Ireland international and Liverpool captain Niamh Fahey has confirmed she will retire from professional football at the end of the current season.
The 37-year-old, who brought the curtain down on an 17-year international career that saw the Galway native win 115 caps for her country back in January, has confirmed that the final two games of the Women's Super League will be her final acts as a player.
Fahey will bid farewell to Reds supporters at Anfield on Sunday in the Merseyside derby with Everton before completing her playing career at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea, where she won the double a decade ago, the following weekend.
The centre-half started her career with Salthill Devon before joining Arsenal in 2008, where she enjoyed a domestic treble in her first year and went on to collect three more Women's Super League titles, as well as five Women's FA Cups with stints at Chelsea and Liverpool.
Fahey has been club captain for the last five seasons, helping the club to the FA Women's Championship title and promotion in 2022.
"It's hard to summarise into words the emotions that I feel as I'm retiring. There are probably too many," she said.
"All I can say is how fortunate I feel for the career I've had and being able to finish it all off at my girlhood club, Liverpool FC."
Fahey, who started all three games in Ireland's maiden World Cup appearances in 2023, played her final game in green in the disappointing Euro 2025 play-off defeat against Wales in Dublin at the end of last year.
