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.
Wilson umpired the 1992, 1993, and 1997 SANFL grand finals.
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]