Russell Smith
Rugby league match official
About Russell Smith
Russell Smith is a former rugby league referee who now administers and coaches match officials.
Smith controlled his first Rugby Football League Championship match on 9 September 1990, a match between Featherstone Rovers and Hull Kingston Rovers. His first international was between Australia and New Zealand on 20 June 1993. In 2004 he was named the international referee of the year.
He moved to Australia in 2005, becoming a National Rugby League referee. He retired at the end of the 2006 NRL season. acted as a senior advisor to the referees boss, Daniel Anderson. He was a match officials coach at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.
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Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: Russell Smith (referee)
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Russell Smith. https://biography.guide/russell-smith-q8d6c1eca/
MLA: "Russell Smith." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/russell-smith-q8d6c1eca/.
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