2024 Umpire List Released
After much deliberation, the AFL has released its Umpire List for the 2024 season.
The four departing umpires; Luke Edwards, Chris Gordon, Drew Kowalski and Mitch Le Fevre will leave with a combined 1,029 ga...
Umpires ‘StepUp!’ for Down Syndrome Victoria
On Sunday 22nd AFLUA members volunteered at Down Syndrome Victoria’s annual StepUp! for Down Syndrome event, helping raise $45,574 to provide support for people with Down syndrome and their families.
Ex-umps...
Cameron Manthey Recognised as Queensland’s Best
The AFL Umpires Association would like to congratulate Cameron Manthey on being awarded the 2023 AFL Queensland Umpire of the Year last Sunday. He now joins four-time winner Andrew Stephens and two-time winner ...
Vale Ted Johnson
The AFLUA was saddened to learn that Life Member and Lifetime Achievement Recipient Ted ‘Teddy’ Johnson recently passed away.
Ted Johnson gave sixty years of service to Australian football as an umpire, traine...
AFLUA X-Umpires’ Luncheon – October 2023
Our X-Umpires’ Luncheons continue to provide a great opportunity for retired umpires to catch up regularly and share great yarns about their time in the game and beyond.
On this occasion, our X-Umpires’ Coor...
AFLW – Development Opportunities for the Rising Stars of Umpiring
With the AFL season finally completed, the AFLW Season 8 is just beginning to ramp up as it charges into the second half of the season.
Whilst the AFLW has its own list of 116 umpires, during the first four ...
‘Where Are They Now?’ – DOUGLAS EDWIN LAMB – Heritage Number 210
My next ‘Where are they Now?’ profile – Doug Edwin Lamb – has spent 40 years in Football: the first 7 years as a field umpire, with the VFL and the VFLRG, and then 6 years with the Sunday Amateurs from 1954 to ...