Wayne Campbell (born 23 September 1972) is a retired Australian rules football player and administrator for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. He also had assistant coaching roles at the

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for two years. On 29 December 2013, it was announced that Campbell had been appointed as the AFL National Umpiring Director replacing

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and he commenced in his new role in mid-January 2014.

Richmond career

Playing career

Campbell joined Richmond via the 1989 National Draft being the club's fifth pick (No. 29 overall). In a 15 season career from 1991 until 2005, Campbell played 297 games, three games short of the coveted 300-game milestone and the fourth-most in club history. He was club captain from 2001 to 2004 and was succeeded by

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. Campbell was regarded as a very consistent player who played in the forward line, the backline and on the wing, before becoming the prime mover in the Richmond midfield during the mid-to-late 1990s with a reputation as a first-class decision maker. Campbell won the

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Medal (the award for the Best and Fairest player at the Richmond Football Club) four times, in 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2002. He was also runner-up in 1992, 1993 and 2001. He placed third for the award in 1998. Campbell also received two All-Australian guernseys (awarded to players adjudged the best in their positions in the AFL competition) in 1995 and 1999. In addition, he represented Victoria in State of Origin matches and Australia in International Rules Series matches. In 1995 he was favourite to win the

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(awarded to the Best and Fairest player in the AFL competition), having won various other media awards, but he polled poorly. In June 2013, Campbell was inducted into the Richmond Hall of Fame.

Coaching and administration career

Campbell had a five year stint in non-playing roles at Richmond, his last being Manager of VFL Strategy. Richmond’s General Manager of Football, Dan Richardson, praised Campbell's work with the club saying, "Most recently, he has done an outstanding job in developing and implementing the strategy aligned to the establishment of the Club’s new VFL team." Campbell was an assistant coach at the

for two years (2007 and 2008), under

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Statistics

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 46 , , 12 , , 5 , , 6 , , 143 , , 66 , , 209 , , 36 , , 21 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 11.9 , , 5.5 , , 17.4 , , 3.0 , , 1.8 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 21 , , 21 , , 10 , , 331 , , 224 , , 555 , , 100 , , 28 , , 1.0 , , 0.5 , , 15.8 , , 10.7 , , 26.4 , , 4.8 , , 1.3 , , 3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 20 , , 8 , , 16 , , 335 , , 152 , , 487 , , 92 , , 34 , , 0.4 , , 0.8 , , 16.8 , , 7.6 , , 24.4 , , 4.6 , , 1.7 , , 5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 20 , , 11 , , 11 , , 243 , , 153 , , 396 , , 54 , , 26 , , 0.6 , , 0.6 , , 12.2 , , 7.7 , , 19.8 , , 2.7 , , 1.3 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 25 , , 16 , , 15 , , 420 , , 174 , , 594 , , 90 , , 39 , , 0.6 , , 0.6 , , 16.8 , , 7.0 , , 23.8 , , 3.6 , , 1.6 , , 10 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 21 , , 15 , , 11 , , 325 , , 181 , , 506 , , 67 , , 41 , , 0.7 , , 0.5 , , 15.5 , , 8.6 , , 24.1 , , 3.2 , , 2.0 , , 4 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 21 , , 4 , , 7 , , 350 , , 205 , , 555 , , 83 , , 37 , , 0.2 , , 0.3 , , 16.7 , , 9.8 , , 26.4 , , 4.0 , , 1.8 , , 6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 21 , , 13 , , 6 , , 311 , , 244 , , 555 , , 68 , , 65 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 14.8 , , 11.6 , , 26.4 , , 3.2 , , 3.1 , , 4 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 22 , , 17 , , 4 , , 380 , , 175 , , 555 , , 94 , , 35 , , 0.8 , , 0.2 , , 17.3 , , 8.0 , , 25.2 , , 4.3 , , 1.6 , , 10 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 17 , , 14 , , 6 , , 239 , , 147 , , 386 , , 99 , , 35 , , 0.8 , , 0.4 , , 14.1 , , 8.6 , , 22.7 , , 5.8 , , 2.1 , , 7 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 25 , , 16 , , 8 , , 346 , , 261 , , 607 , , 114 , , 71 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 13.8 , , 10.4 , , 24.3 , , 4.6 , , 2.8 , , 4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 22 , , 12 , , 7 , , 297 , , 216 , , 513 , , 91 , , 69 , , 0.5 , , 0.3 , , 13.5 , , 9.8 , , 23.3 , , 4.1 , , 3.1 , , 8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 9 , , 5 , , 4 , , 116 , , 68 , , 184 , , 44 , , 13 , , 0.6 , , 0.4 , , 12.9 , , 7.6 , , 20.4 , , 4.9 , , 1.4 , , 6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 19 , , 2 , , 1 , , 237 , , 180 , , 417 , , 97 , , 49 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 12.5 , , 9.5 , , 21.9 , , 5.1 , , 2.6 , , 1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005 , style="text-align:center;", , 9 , , 22 , , 13 , , 6 , , 201 , , 206 , , 407 , , 114 , , 32 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 9.1 , , 9.4 , , 18.5 , , 5.2 , , 1.5 , , 2 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 297 ! 172 ! 118 ! 4274 ! 2652 ! 6926 ! 1243 ! 595 ! 0.6 ! 0.4 ! 14.4 ! 8.9 ! 23.3 ! 4.2 ! 2.0 ! 70

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