West Ham’s Camila Saez signs season-long loan with Bristol City | OneFootball

Camila Saez (Bristol City FC)

Bristol City have signed Chile international Camila Saez on a season-long loan deal from West Ham.

The experienced centre back, who has more than 100 caps for her country, joins the Robins ahead of the 2025-26 season as they seek promotion from WSL2.

Head coach Charlotte Healy said: “Camila is another excellent signing for us with great experience both domestically and internationally.

“Her experiences in the WSL will help us as a team continue to strive towards getting this club back to where we want to be. She’s been fantastic on and off the pitch so far and we’re excited to have her with us.”

Saez added: “I think the squad we have and the players we have signed are a really high level and are able to achieve our goal of promotion. I can’t wait for it to start.”

Camila Saez’s career so far

The 30-year-old has significant international experience.

As a 15-year-old, Saez started all three group-stage ties for Chile at the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago at just 15. She made her senior debut for her country at the age of 17, coming on as a substitute in Chile’s 2-0 defeat by Romania in the Algarve Cup in March 2011. Since then, she has played at the 2018 Copa America Femenina, the 2020 Olympic Games, the 2023 Pan American Games, and their first-ever Women’s World Cup in 2019.

Domestically, in her five-and-a-half years with Chilean club Colo-Colo from 2012 to 2017, she won five Clausura and four Apertura Championship titles, and three Copa de Campeonas.

She then signed for Tacon in Spain, moving on to Rayo Vallecano, Alaves Gloriosas, and Madrid CFF, before joining West Ham in 2024.

“I’m making the most of every moment and enjoying this league,” Saez said in an interview with West Ham’s YouTube channel last year.

Bristol City’s recent track record

Bristol City finished sixth in what was then the Women’s Championship last season. They were relegated from the Women’s Super League in 2023-24, finishing 12th, having secured promotion as champions the season before.

Charlotte Healy, formerly Marc Skinner’s assistant at Manchester United, was appointed as the team’s head coach in June 2025. She said at the time: “I’m high challenge, I want us to win, I want us to be successful but if you came into my environment, I hope you’d see it is really high support as well.”

She replaced Steve Kirby, who left the club after one season in charge, in May 2025.