{"id":924791,"date":"2026-10-12T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924791\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:06:09","slug":"andrew-kellaway-confirms-retirement-from-professional-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924791\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Kellaway confirms retirement from professional Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Former Wallabies fullback Andrew Kellaway has announced his retirement from Rugby Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Kellaway confirmed the news on Sunday, bringing to a close a decorated 12-year career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Bledisloe Cup series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;Closing the curtain on 12 incredible years. Special people, special places and lots to remember,&#8221; he said via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeWTAf-mkzQ\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;Big thank you to everyone who supported along the way and those that played a part. It\u2019s been real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Kellaway played 49 games for the Wallabies, debuting in 2021 after grinding his way into the Test set-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Emerging as a bright star of the Australia U20s team in 2014-15, the outside back would debut for the Waratahs the following year against the ACT Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Randwick junior would head overseas in 2018, spending time in Japan, New Zealand and England before returning to Australia with the Melbourne Rebels in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">In Melbourne, Kellaway flourished, catching the eye of then-coach Dave Rennie for a maiden Wallabies call-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">He earned his Test debut against France in July that year, but broke out during the Bledisloe Cup series, scoring three Tries in two matches at Eden Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It started a golden period for Kellaway as he scored the second most tries (9) in a Wallabies\u2019 debut season and walked away with Rugby Australia\u2019s Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Kellaway would become a regular for the Wallabies across his four year international career, featuring at the 2023 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The 30-year-old finished his career at the Waratahs, last pulling on the gold jersey against Ireland in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wallabies fullback Andrew Kellaway has announced his retirement from Rugby Union. Kellaway confirmed the news on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,760,85,468472],"class_list":["post-924791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924791","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=924791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}