{"id":30302,"date":"2026-06-01T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-milner-retires-after-ending-24-year-premier-league-career-with-brighton\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:26:32","slug":"james-milner-retires-after-ending-24-year-premier-league-career-with-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-milner-retires-after-ending-24-year-premier-league-career-with-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"James Milner retires after ending 24-year Premier League career with Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former England international James Milner has announced his retirement after a 24-year Premier League career.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The versatile 40-year-old was out of contract after spending the past three seasons with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milner played for six teams in England&#8217;s top flight and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cjrqdnj2199o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">broke the record for most Premier League appearances in February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started his career with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Leeds<\/a> and went on to win three Premier League titles &#8211; two with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester City<\/a> and one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Liverpool<\/a> &#8211; and also helped the Reds win the Champions League in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/clyp4jmyym0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England international James Milner has announced his retirement after a 24-year Premier League career. The versatile 40-year-old was out of contract after spending the past three seasons with Brighton. Milner played for six teams in England&#8217;s top flight and broke the record for most Premier League appearances in February. He started his career with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30304,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30302\/revisions\/30304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}