{"id":693006,"date":"2026-05-25T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693006\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:53:09","slug":"a-very-sad-day-peter-vlandys-confirms-abdo-nrl-departure-for-tennis-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693006\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A very sad day\u2019: Peter V\u2019landys confirms Abdo NRL departure for Tennis Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARL Chairman Peter V\u2019landys has confirmed the resignation of NRL CEO Andrew Abdo.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Sydney, V\u2019landys made several jokes about Abdo\u2019s new role before admitting the rumours of him joining Tennis Australia to replace Craig Tiley were correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very hard day for me personally, but it is with much disappointment that I announce Andre Abdo has joined&#8230; the One Nation party,\u201d he smirked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all thought it was Tennis Australia\u2014but jokes aside Andrew is leaving us to be the CEO of Tennis Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a data-testid=\"card--article-thumbnail\" role=\"article\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/nrl-team-lists-round-13-2026-lineups-injuries-suspensions\/2942e100d9044c812be6da8a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NRL 2026 team lists &#8211; Every club&#8217;s predicted lineup for Round 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>V\u2019landys described the news as being a very sad day for rugby league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew has been the ultimate professional, he has been loyal, he has been hard working, he has been every adjective I can think\u2014I can\u2019t think of a better CEO,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said when Andrew was appointed he would be the best NRL CEO ever, and for once I was right, because he has been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rapid growth of the game in the last six years has been extraordinary, we have more viewers, more revenue, more assets, more everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The game is only scratching the surface\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When given the floor by his soon-to-be former boss, Abdo explained the decision to leave the NRL had been \u2018pretty emotional\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love rugby league, its part of my DNA,\u201d Abdo said, expressing pride in the game\u2019s achievements under his watch since 2020 and excitement for what lays ahead in terms of continued expansion and growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is only scratching the surface of what is possible, and there is literally no limit to where this game will go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be cheering from the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARL Chairman Peter V\u2019landys has confirmed the resignation of NRL CEO Andrew Abdo. Speaking at a press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-693006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693006","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=693006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}