Arsenal have confirmed the signing of Germany striker Selina Cerci from Hoffenheim on a free switch.
The 26-year-old has spent her complete profession in Frauen-Bundesliga and scored 34 objectives in 47 appearances for Hoffenheim, serving to them to a fourth-placed end in 2025-26.
She additionally has 20 caps for her nation, scoring 5 objectives, and can assist fill the void left by Beth Mead’s departure to Girls’s Tremendous League champions Manchester Metropolis earlier this summer time.
BBC Sport understands Cerci has signed a two-year cope with an possibility for an extra 12 months.
“It’s a massive honour for me,” Cerci stated. “It did not matter which different golf equipment have been involved in me – I needed to play for Arsenal.”
After beginning her profession with prolific spells at Werder Bremen and Turbine Potsdam, Cerci suffered a cruciate ligament harm in March 2022 that dominated her out of the Girls’s Euros that 12 months and the Girls’s World Cup 12 months later.
A swap to Hoffenheim through FC Koln adopted and there she returned to kind, twice ending second within the high scorers’ ranks with 16 objectives.
“She’s an instinctive goalscorer with a confirmed document within the Bundesliga,” stated Arsenal director of girls’s soccer Clare Wheatley. “We imagine she’s in a robust place to transition to English soccer.”
Final season, Cerci added assists to her sport, supplying 9 within the league. That was sufficient for joint-second most within the division, alongside new Arsenal team-mate Georgia Stanway, then of Bayern Munich.
“[Selina] has spectacular goalscoring numbers and brings good presence, physicality and ahead intent,” added boss Renee Slegers. “Mixed along with her sturdy work ethic, we really feel these qualities make her a terrific addition to our squad.”
