Vale Ted Johnson

Oct 19, 2023 | Member News, News

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, trainer and stalwart of the AFL Umpires’ Association. His...

AFLUA X-Umpires’ Luncheon – October 2023

Oct 17, 2023 | Member News

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’ Coordinator Terry O’Donnell interviewed Neil ‘Sneaky’...

AFLW – Development Opportunities for the Rising Stars of Umpiring

Oct 5, 2023 | News

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 rounds AFLW games were occasionally supplemented by AFL...

‘Where Are They Now?’ – DOUGLAS EDWIN LAMB – Heritage Number 210

Oct 3, 2023 | Member News

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 1959 as a field umpire and 1 as a goal umpire; then in...

Chris Gordon – another milestone reached

Sep 28, 2023 | Member News, Milestones, News, Umpire Shorts

Congratulations to boundary umpire Chris Gordon, who will mark his 350th career AFL match this weekend when he takes to the field for the 2023 AFL Grand Final between Collingwood and Brisbane Lions at the MCG. This landmark milestone caps off Chris’ seventh AFL Grand...