{"id":82277,"date":"2026-08-28T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/82277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:35:07","slug":"north-melbourne-aflw-player-mia-king-out-for-season-after-spinal-fusion-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/82277\/","title":{"rendered":"North Melbourne AFLW player Mia King out for season after spinal fusion surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time AFLW premiers North Melbourne have lost midfielder Mia King for the season after she required spinal fusion surgery for a neck injury.<\/p>\n

The premiership midfielder reported neck pain following North’s win over Brisbane Lions last weekend.<\/p>\n

King underwent a thorough medical examination in Brisbane, which revealed a disc injury near her spinal cord.<\/p>\n

She remains in Queensland recovering after having successful surgery to fuse together the C5 and C6 vertebrae in her neck.<\/p>\n

Roos dominate Aussie AFLW squad<\/a><\/p>\n

North Melbourne has the most players of any club selected in Australia’s squad for the inaugural AFLW representative match against Ireland.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos confirmed the procedure would sideline King for the rest of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

“We will continue monitoring Mia in her recovery but we don’t expect this type of surgery to stop her from returning to play in 2027,” club doctor Victoria Norbury said in a statement.<\/p>\n

King was part of North Melbourne’s premiership-winning team in 2024, but she missed out on last year’s grand final win after an ongoing PCL knee injury.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos are again at the top of the ladder after two rounds this season, with the best percentage in the AFLW.<\/p>\n

North Melbourne general manager of women’s football Erin Lorenzini said the club would support King as she began her recovery.<\/p>\n

“We wrap our arms around Mia,” Lorenzini said. “We are devastated for her, but also full of admiration for how incredibly strong she has been this week.<\/p>\n

“As a proud Jawoyn woman, she was particularly looking forward to wearing our Indigenous Round jumper in Launceston this weekend.<\/p>\n

“We have a very close group of players and staff, and all our thoughts will be with her as we run out against the Bulldogs on Saturday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time AFLW premiers North Melbourne have lost midfielder Mia King for the season after she required spinal fusion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12143,99,260,131107,131109,4315,131108,131110,261,5619],"class_list":["post-82277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-aflw","tag-brisbane","tag-melbourne","tag-mia-king","tag-neck-injury","tag-north-melbourne","tag-season-over","tag-spinal-fusion","tag-sport","tag-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277","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=82277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}