Darren Wilson (umpire)
Australian rules football boundary umpire
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Darren Wilson (born 21 September 1974) is a former Australian rules football boundary umpire and current boundary umpire coach. He is also an elite stair climber who won the 2016 Empire State Building Run-Up.
Umpiring career
SANFL
AFL
Wilson made his Australian Football League debut as a boundary umpire in 1992, the youngest umpire ever as of 2023.[1][2][3]
Wilson umpired the 1998 AFL Grand Final between Adelaide and North Melbourne. By 2009, he had umpired 12 consecutive AFL Grand Finals, a record; this feat also simultaneously set a new record for the number of grand finals umpired.[1][4][5][6]
Wilson was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2022.[7] In 2021, he was made a life member; he is the only AFL life member who is a boundary umpire.[8]
He became the inaugural AFLW boundary umpires coach for 2017–18, and he was the AFL national boundary umpire coach from 2019 to now.[9]