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Hayden Meyer

Australian rules football umpire

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ42737025 ↗
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Hayden Meyer (né Gavine) is an Australian rules football umpire currently officiating in the Australian Football League.

He umpired in the Victorian Football League before joining the AFL list. He officiated in over 60 VFL matches, including the 2015 and 2016 grand finals. He was appointed to the senior AFL umpiring list for the 2017 season, and officiated in 10 matches in his debut season.

Meyer has officiated in two AFL Grand Finals: 2023 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hayden Meyer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.