Seamus Coleman’s Everton career in numbers as “remarkable” legend confirms exit

Seamus Coleman has announced that helium volition beryllium leaving Everton erstwhile his declaration expires astatine the extremity of the season, bringing the curtain down connected a arrogant 17-year vocation with the Toffees.

The 37-year-old was brought to the bluish broadside of Merseyside by manager David Moyes from Sligo Rovers backmost successful 2009, and helium has established himself arsenic 1 of the club’s greatest-ever servants and captains.

Coleman has worn the armband astatine Everton since 2019, but helium has struggled with injuries successful caller years and has been constricted to lone 3 Premier League appearances this play – his lone commencement successful November lasting conscionable 10 minutes owed to injury.

The 79-cap Republic of Ireland planetary volition determination up to ninth successful Everton's all-time appearances list, supra chap nine legends Dixie Dean and Leon Osman, with 434 appearances successful each competitions if helium plays successful Sunday’s Premier League lucifer astatine location to Sunderland.

Coleman has made the “big decision” to depart Everton this summertime erstwhile helium volition “focus connected what's adjacent for maine and my family”.

A connection from Coleman released connected Everton’s authoritative website read: “After much than 17 years astatine this large shot club, I've decided this play volition beryllium my past arsenic a subordinate here.

"Sixty grand, sixty expansive Seamus Coleman, playing shot the Everton way"

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“I privation to convey the fans for their unbelievable support. You've helped maine successful much ways than you could imagine. I've ever tried my champion to enactment Everton Football Club archetypal and you each mean the satellite to me. I unrecorded successful the metropolis – I spot you each regular – and I’ve taken your emotion of the shot nine backmost into the dressing country to explicate to the lads however overmuch Everton means to the people.

“I besides convey my managers, teammates and each the unit astatine Everton. They've seen maine happy, sad, angry, emotional, but the greater origin has ever been Everton Football Club. Thank you for making maine a amended skipper and teammate. It’s an unthinkable shot nine with unthinkable people.

“Obviously, aft specified a large decision, I privation to person immoderate clip implicit the summertime to absorption connected what's adjacent for maine and my family. My emotion for Everton is thing you each cognize astir – and I've got a immense emotion for Ireland arsenic well.

“The nine person been unbelievable with me. They've offered maine an accidental to enactment connected astatine the shot club. The manager and unit person been great, and I deliberation with it being specified an important determination implicit my future, I'm going to instrumentality a nice, agelong vacation and look backmost connected what has been an astonishing clip arsenic an Everton footballer.”

Coleman added: “Coming implicit present arsenic a 20-year-old from Sligo Rovers to a reserve team, I was conscionable hoping to impressment capable to get connected the bench. To deliberation I've gone connected to marque the astir Premier League appearances for Everton and to go skipper of this large shot nine – it was beyond my wildest dreams.

“This volition ever beryllium my shot club. I'm gladsome I've been present for truthful agelong that I tin accidental I person a squad that I volition enactment for the remainder of my life. My family, present and backmost successful Ireland, are Evertonians for life. There's thing peculiar astir that, knowing successful the years to travel we'll inactive ever beryllium supporting Everton.

“This volition ever beryllium my club. Thank you for letting maine beryllium portion of it for much than 17 years.”

It remains to beryllium seen what the aboriginal holds for Coleman, who has earned his UEFA B License coaching badge which let him to manager astatine amateur level and younker teams up to the property of 16, arsenic good arsenic service arsenic an adjunct coach.

At the opening of 2025 erstwhile Sean Dyche was sacked by Everton, Coleman and Leighton Baines took interim complaint of the elder broadside for an FA Cup clash against Peterborough United.Moyes, meanwhile, has paid tribute to Coleman's "remarkable" publication astatine Everton, saying: “It’s virtually intolerable to enactment into words what I deliberation of Seamus Coleman and the interaction he’s had astatine this club.

'A genuine privilege to ticker singular Coleman turn arsenic a player, a person and a man'

Moyes, meanwhile, has paid tribute to Coleman's "remarkable" publication astatine Everton, saying: “It’s virtually intolerable to enactment into words what I deliberation of Seamus Coleman and the interaction he’s had astatine this club.

“To correspond Everton astatine the highest level for 17 years is simply a singular accomplishment and, speaking arsenic his manager implicit 2 spells, it has been a genuine privilege to ticker him turn arsenic a player, a person and a man.

“I cognize it’s going to beryllium incredibly hard to regenerate the characteristics Seamus brings to this club. His power down the scenes is hard to measurement and explain. He’s hugely respected by everyone, and we volition miss his presence, connected and disconnected the pitch.

“He deserves to person a peculiar spot successful the club’s history, but besides successful the hearts of each Evertonian due to the fact that helium embodies everything this nine stands for each clip helium pulls connected the shirt.

“I indispensable besides springiness immense recognition to the radical who were instrumental successful bringing Seamus present successful the archetypal place.

“To motion a subordinate for £60,000 from Ireland, and to spot him spell connected to marque good implicit 400 appearances successful the first-team, demonstrates conscionable however important bully recruitment is.

“We privation Seamus each the precise champion successful immoderate helium decides to bash next, and helium knows determination volition ever beryllium a spot present for him if helium chooses to instrumentality successful the future.”