Jeff Dalgleish is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

field umpire in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

. Based in Western Australia, Dalgleish began umpiring in 1999 in the East Fremantle Juniors and the Western Australian Amateur Football League. He progressed to professional football, making his WAFL umpiring debut in 2003 and his

debut in 2009. Dalgleish rose to become one of the league's best umpires in the mid-2010s, and was selected to umpire in his first Grand Final in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

. Dalgleish's brother Brett also umpires in the AFL as a boundary umpire.

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