{"id":262824,"date":"2025-11-14T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262824\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:33:08","slug":"toa-mataafa-york-knights-full-back-signs-new-deal-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262824\/","title":{"rendered":"Toa Mata’afa: York Knights full-back signs new deal for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

York Knights full-back Toa Mata’afa has signed a new deal to remain with the newly promoted Super League club.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old joined the club for 2025, having spent two seasons in France with Baroudeur de Pia and later FC Lezignan.<\/p>\n

He made 19 appearances for the Knights in 2025 and scored 12 tries, helping them win the 1895 Cup and reach the Championship Grand Final.<\/p>\n

“I’m really excited to continue my journey with the York Knights and step up into the Super League,” Mata’afa said., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s a great opportunity to keep developing and help the team build on the achievements this year.”<\/p>\n

Prior to his move to the northern hemisphere, Mata’afa played for North Sydney Bears in the NSW Cup.<\/p>\n

“For me, he’s a player whose ceiling limit could be anywhere. He’s got a really cool head on him, some great leadership ability, great skill and athleticism,” Knights head coach Mark Applegarth said.<\/p>\n

“The best part about Toa is I think we’ve barely scratched the surface with him yet and I’m really looking forward to working with him again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York Knights full-back Toa Mata’afa has signed a new deal to remain with the newly promoted Super League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-262824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}