{"id":69941,"date":"2024-02-15T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=69941"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T03:40:08","slug":"zurich-extends-afl-partnership-with-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/zurich-extends-afl-partnership-with-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Extends AFL Partnership with Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has extended its partnership with the Melbourne Football Club men\u2019s and women\u2019s Australian Football League teams for a further three seasons, to the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says it has been Co-Principal Partner of MFC since 2018 and in 2020 also became Co-Principal Partner of the club\u2019s women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66160\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/justin-delaney-e1686620044567.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-66160\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/justin-delaney-e1686620044567-253x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/justin-delaney-e1686620044567-253x300.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/justin-delaney-e1686620044567.jpeg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Delaney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Justin Delaney,<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Australia &amp; New Zealand, says the company is\u00a0 proud to extend its partnership with the Melbourne Football Club \u201c\u2026following six successful years working closely together on a number of important initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says together the two organisations have &#8220;&#8230;driven several impactful community initiatives including the launch of \u2018Goals for Good\u2019 and support of charitable rounds to raise money for FightMND (motor neurone disease) and the Reach Foundation (youth mental health and wellbeing).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the partnership with the MFC provides a valuable platform for Zurich to connect with its customers, partners, employees and the broader Australian community&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Delaney notes the partnership with the Melbourne Football Club provides a valuable platform for Zurich to connect with its customers, partners, employees and the broader Australian community.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the partnership, Zurich\u2019s logo will continue to feature on the front of MFC\u2019s men\u2019s and back of the women\u2019s match-day guernseys and team training apparel.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says the partnership with MFC underlines Zurich\u2019s commitment to the AFL and follows the foundation in 2018 of <em>\u2018Tackle Your Feelings<\/em>\u2019, a free mental health education and awareness training program, by Zurich Insurance, the Z Zurich Foundation, the AFL Coaches Association and the AFL Players\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has extended its partnership with the Melbourne Football Club men\u2019s and women\u2019s Australian Football League teams for a further three seasons, to the end of the 2026 season. The insurer says it has been Co-Principal Partner of MFC since 2018 and in 2020 also became Co-Principal Partner of the club\u2019s women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":69943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3,8281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news","category-general","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}