https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2022/06/13/gilmour-contract-extended
Gilmour contract extended
13 Jun 2022
Chelsea Football Club has exercised an option to extend Billy Gilmour's
contract until 2024.
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The midfielder, who spent this past season on loan at Norwich City, will
remain at the Bridge for at least two more years. Gilmour has 22 Chelsea
appearances to his name and turned 21 on Saturday.
Gilmour joined Chelsea in the summer of 2017 from Rangers in his native
Scotland. After two successful years in our Academy, including trophies
and a first professional contract, he became a permanent fixture in Frank
Lampard's squad during the 2019/20 campaign. He made his Blues debut in a
home game against Sheffield United in August 2019, not long after his 18th
birthday, and then signed a new four-year deal at Stamford Bridge.
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Gilmour won successive man-of-the-match awards in our final two games
before that season was suspended due to the pandemic, against Liverpool
and Everton respectively. He remained a member of the squad during Project
Restart, before an injury sustained at Crystal Palace brought his maiden
season at senior level to an end. He had made 11 appearances and impressed
with his game awareness, touch and weight of pass.
That injury delayed Gilmour's return until December, when he came off the
bench in a win at Sevilla. From then on, most of his minutes in 2020/21
arrived in the cup competitions, although he did start a crucial league
game away to Manchester City in early May, highlighting Thomas Tuchel's
faith in the youngster.
He spent the 2021/22 campaign garnering further top-level experience with
Norwich, playing 28 times for them in all competitions and accruing over
2000 minutes of football. Gilmour started four of their final five games.
He only made his senior Scotland debut last June but quickly established
himself as a vital cog in Steve Clarke's side. Gilmour turned in a super
showing against England at Wembley in the delayed Euro 2020 tournament,
and started each of Scotland's seven World Cup qualifiers since then,
featuring in six straight wins. Earlier this month he started and played
68 minutes for Scotland in a 3-1 loss to Ukraine in a World Cup play-off
semi-final.