{"id":886296,"date":"2026-09-10T00:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886296\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:42:19","slug":"lions-veteran-signs-new-deal-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886296\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions veteran signs new deal for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dayne Zorko has signed a contract to continue his career for a 17th season\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Dayne Zorko during the round 20 match between Brisbane and Port Adelaide at The Gabba, on July 26, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>BRISBANE has secured another key signature ahead of Saturday&#8217;s semi-final at the Gabba, locking in Dayne Zorko for 2027 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After securing a commitment from Zac Bailey on Monday night and finalising the eight-year deal on Tuesday morning, the Lions have now re-signed Zorko.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has been keen to play on for a 17th season and has now put pen to paper on a one-year deal ahead of the do-or-die final against Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Zorko didn&#8217;t miss a game in both premiership seasons in 2024 and 2025, but has played 14 games so far in 2026 due to soft tissue issues.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Merrett-Murray Medal winner will be 38 by the start of next season, but has produced some of the best football of his career in the Grand Final era, earning All-Australian selection in 2024, seven years after his first blazer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zorko is only five games behind Brisbane&#8217;s games record held by champion midfielder Simon Black.<\/p>\n<p>With potentially three games to come in 2026, Zorko will now get the chance to surpass that mark early next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dayne Zorko has signed a contract to continue his career for a 17th season Dayne Zorko during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-886296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886296","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=886296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}