{"id":264028,"date":"2025-11-05T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:56:25","slug":"sea-eagles-confirm-new-ceo-ahead-of-2026-season-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264028\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles confirm new CEO ahead of 2026 season &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> have confirmed former club captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jason-king\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason King<\/a> will take over as CEO after Tony Mestrov resigned from the role this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mestrov will officially depart the Sea Eagles on December 19, with King then to take over.<\/p>\n<p>King retired from playing in 2014 with a successful resume of 239 appearances, 217 of those coming for the Sea Eagles, and the other 22 with the Northern Eagles during an ill-fated merger between the Sea Eagles and North Sydney Bears.<\/p>\n<p>The former forward has since built a successful career off the field, working in rugby league administration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a>. He is currently the Executive General Manager of Legal, Integrity &amp; Risk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> and is a practising solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>Manly chairman Scott Penn said King is the perfect candidate for the role as Manly celebrates their 80th season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason is an accomplished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> administrator bringing over 10 years&#8217; experience to the Sea Eagles,&#8221; Penn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a past Captain, playing over 200 games for the Club, makes Jason the perfect candidate to bring the Sea Eagles&#8217; new strategic plan to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to welcome Jason back to the Club as CEO as we celebrate our 80th year in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King is already a life member of Manly, but takes over at a tricky time where the club, trying to balance out their salary cap, also has questions over Anthony Seibold&#8217;s future as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>King said being appointed to the role, though, was an incredible honour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an incredible honour to be appointed the next Chief Executive of the Sea Eagles,&#8221; King said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Club has been a defining part of my life, and I feel humbled to return in this leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply grateful to the Club&#8217;s ownership and Board for the trust they have placed in me, and for the opportunity to serve a Club that means so much to me and the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to working with Scott and the Board, our players and staff, corporate and government partners, and our passionate members and fans to deliver on the Club&#8217;s strategy and drive sustained success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manly Sea Eagles have confirmed former club captain Jason King will take over as CEO after Tony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-264028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}