USA international Emily Fox has signed a new contract at Arsenal, describing the decision as “an easy decision”. The 28-year-old defender joined the club from North Carolina Courage in 2024 and has become a key figure for Renee Slegers’ side. She is understood to have signed a new three-year deal.
During her time at Arsenal, Fox has helped the club win the Women’s Champions League in 2025 and the Women’s Champions Cup in 2026. In her first season with Arsenal, she won the Women’s League Cup, and she has been named in the PFA team of the year in each of the last two campaigns. She has made almost 100 appearances for Arsenal in all competitions.
Fox explained why staying felt straightforward. “I’m very pleased to be able to continue my journey with Arsenal and it was honestly an easy decision because of where I want to be now, and in a few years’ time,” she said. “When I think of how I’m going to grow, be challenged and be in an environment where it’s like my second home, I think of Arsenal. It is a club that is wanting to continue to push the women’s game, invest in it and focus on the community, the history of it, the culture, and wanting to excel.”
Reports in January indicated that Fox had a year remaining on her previous contract, but Arsenal were always confident she would stay. Her new deal keeps one of the game’s leading full-backs at the club as she approaches a century of appearances.
Despite her success in Europe, Fox still sees the WSL title as a missing piece. “There is definitely some unfinished business. We want to keep going, keep winning and maybe get some things that we’ve already won before too,” she said. “Being at Arsenal, there’s always going to be high expectations from the inside and the outside. That’s just part of it. When you have big goals like that, you have to take it game-by-game and you can’t look too far ahead. That’s my approach.”
Fox is also preparing for a big summer with the United States under former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes, with the team hoping to go far at the 2027 Women’s World Cup. The USA are set to play Spain twice at home in October, and Fox said those matches form part of a testing run of opponents. “This year has been great for us in terms of the opponents and the challenges,” she said. “I feel like we’ve played a lot of variety with our opponents and it’s given us a taste of different environments, different tactics and layers of how we’re going to play. That’s ultimately what you need to do when you want to win a World Cup. In November, we have to qualify. Those are our objectives.”