{"id":75180,"date":"2026-08-19T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/75180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:14:08","slug":"melbourne-city-midfielder-deven-jackson-signs-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/75180\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne City midfielder Deven Jackson signs new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand international Deven Jackson has signed a new one-year deal with reigning Ninja A-League Premiers and Champions Melbourne City.<\/p>\n

Jackson made 24 appearances across all competitions last season, featuring across the front third and in midfield under Head Coach Michael Matricciani.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old now has 60 Ninja A-League appearances to her name and will remain part of City\u2019s squad as the reigning Premiers and Champions prepare to defend their domestic titles and compete in a third consecutive AFC Women\u2019s Champions League campaign.<\/p>\n

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Melbourne City Director of Football Michael Petrillo said Jackson had made a strong contribution in her first season at the Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeven made a really positive contribution in her first season with us and we\u2019re pleased to have her continuing at the Club,\u201d Petrillo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a technically gifted and versatile player who gives us quality across a number of attacking and midfield positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe there\u2019s still plenty more to come from Deven and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing her continue to contribute to the team this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Sofia Sakalis of the Victory is challenged by Deven Jackson of Melbourne City (R)<\/p>\n

Jackson said she was excited to build on her first season in City blue.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first season at City was an incredible experience and to finish it as Premiers and Champions was really special,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve loved being part of this group and I\u2019m excited to have the opportunity to continue building on what we achieved last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back to work and hopefully help the team compete for more silverware this season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand international Deven Jackson has signed a new one-year deal with reigning Ninja A-League Premiers and Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[342,1417,4640,260,152],"class_list":["post-75180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-a-league-women","tag-a-leagues","tag-alwfeatured","tag-melbourne","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}