Wayne Campbell

Wayne Campbell (born 23 September 1972) is a retired Australian rules football player who was captain and four-time best-and-fairest for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL and was inducted into the Richmond Hall of Fame. Campbell was also twice-named an All-Australian. After retiring from playing at the end of 2005, Campbell went on to be an assistant coach and administrator with Richmond and a variety of other AFL clubs, and the AFL itself. He is currently the Head of the Sydney Swans football academy.

Richmond career Playing career Campbell joined Richmond via the 1989 National Draft being the club's fifth pick (No. 29 overall). He previously played with his best mate Tony Maguire at Golden Square juniors. 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.

Campbell was an assistant coach at the Western Bulldogs for two years (2007 and 2008), under Rodney Eade. He then returned to Richmond in an administrative role.

In 2013 Campbell was appointed the AFL's national umpiring director, responsible for the development of the AFL's senior umpiring panel and the overall strategy for umpiring at all levels of the game.

Campbell left the umpiring job to become the football manager for the GWS Giants from 2016 to 2019, during which period the Giants reached the AFL finals every year including the grand final in 2019.

In 2021 Campbell took up the football manager role at the Gold Coast Suns. Campbell survived in the role after the Suns changed coaches at the end of 2023 and was manager when the Suns reached the finals for the first time in 2025. But Campbell resigned from the Gold Coast at the end of 2025 to take up a position as head of the Sydney Swans' football academy.

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