Janice Cayman leaves Leicester City to join PSV

Janice Cayman
Janice Cayman (Leicester City)

Belgium international Janice Cayman has left Leicester City and signed for PSV.

The 37-year-old joined the Foxes in the summer of 2023 from Olympique Lyonnais and featured 66 times in all competitions across two-and-a-half years in Leicestershire.

A club statement said: “An influential figure both on and off the pitch, she leaves having made a significant contribution to the development of LCFC Women as an established Barclays Women’s Super League team.”

Leicester City sit ninth in the WSL league table, and travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.

Cayman is a former Leicester City captain. She has also played for Montpellier, OH Leuven, Paris FC and Western New York Flash, where she won the NWSL – and with Lyon, she won the UEFA Women’s Champions League twice among multiple other trophies.

She has represented her country at senior level 170 times so far, scoring 49 times.

Janice Cayman: I have big ambitions

“It is an honour to be able to play for PSV,” Cayman is quoted as saying on the PSV website. “There was mutual interest and then things can go very quickly. I think I add a lot of experience to the selection and can help young players. Just like PSV, I have big ambitions: I want to play European football and fight for the championship.”

Technical manager Marco Knirsch added: “We had actually wanted to get her in the summer, but now the opportunity presented itself that we could acquire her immediately. She can play in several positions, which gives us a lot of options, but she comes primarily as a defender. On top of that, she also adds a ton of experience to our team.”

PSV are currently third in the Vrouwen Eredivisie league table, three points behind leaders Ajax. She joins other Belgium internationals in the squad, including goalkeeper Nicky Evrard.

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