Ellie Roebuck, Demi Stokes, Ruby Mace and Filippa Angeldahl will each call time on their Joie Stadium careers, having all made an important contribution to successes over their stays.
This comes after captain Steph Houghton confirmed her retirement from the game.
Goalkeeper Roebuck joined the Club as a 15-year-old in 2015, going on to make 136 appearances in all competitions, the most of any player in her position since our professional relaunch.
Only Karen Bardsley can better her tally of 62 clean sheets in sky blue, but her total of 45 in the WSL remains a record for the Club.
Making her debut in 2018 when coming off the bench in a 0-0 draw with Chelsea, Roebuck went on to become one of the finest young goalkeepers in the English game, claiming the WSL’s inaugural Golden Glove award in 2019/20.
The stopper earned ten clean sheets in just 16 WSL matches across a campaign that was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was the only City winner of the prize until Khiara Keating in 2023/24.
Roebuck’s quality between the sticks was exemplified by several incredible stops during her nine years at the Club, including in both Etihad derbies to deny Jane Ross in 2019 and Martha Thomas in 2022.
Stokes also made her move to City ahead of the 2015 campaign and instantly cemented herself at left-back in Nick Cushing’s exciting side.
The defender was part of a back line that conceded just four league goals en route to the 2016 WSL title and went on to claim **six more major honours during her time at the Joie Stadium.
One of only three players to make over 200 appearances since our professional relaunch, she was also twice named in the PFA WSL Team of the Year, making the squad in successive seasons between 2017 and 2019.
She also became the first female City player to juggle the demands of parenthood with professional football in 2022, a few months before helping England win the European Championship.
Only Steph Houghton has served the Club for a longer period of time than the defender.
Mace, meanwhile, made the switch to the Joie Stadium from fellow WSL side Arsenal in the summer of 2021, signing her first professional contract in the process.
She went on to make *29 appearances across the following three seasons, including a successful loan spell at Leicester City across the second half of the 2022/23 campaign.
The midfielder helped Gareth Taylor’s side win the Continental Cup in 2022, featuring in all six matches en route to the final having made her debut in the competition against Everton in October 2021.
Often deployed as a centre-half in her first campaign amidst an unprecedented injury crisis, Mace put in several assured displays in the heart of defence despite being just 18 at the time, including a standout performance against Chelsea in February 2022.
Over the past two seasons the England Under-23 international has spent more time in her favoured defensive midfield role and featured in every competition for City across 2023/24.
Fellow midfielder Angeldahl also made the move to City at the beginning of the 2021/22 campaign, featuring *69 times across the following three years.
The Sweden international’s mix of energy off the ball and quality on it formed an important part of Gareth Taylor’s engine room as we claimed the Continental Cup and reached an FA Cup final in her debut campaign.
Always with an eye for the spectacular, Angeldahl grabbed some stunning goals during her time at the Club, with standouts coming against Bristol City and Chelsea during 2022/23.
Against Bristol, the midfielder’s vicious first-time volley from the edge of the box was the pick of the bunch for City in an emphatic 8-1 FA Cup win.
One month later, she opened the scoring at the Joie Stadium against Emma Hayes’ side with an audacious lob over Ann-Katrin Berger, putting in a match-winning performance as City ran out 2-0 winners.
Everyone at Manchester City would like to thank Ellie, Demi, Ruby and Filippa for their contributions to the Club, and wish them the very best in their future careers.
