Eleni Tee | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Eleni Andriana Tee | ||
Other occupation | PE teacher | ||
Umpiring career | |||
Years | League | Role | Games |
2017– | AFL | Field umpire | 78 |
2020– | AFLW | Field umpire | 4 |
Eleni Andriana Tee (née Glouftsis) OAM is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW).
Tee is the first female field umpire to officiate a match sanctioned by the AFL, which occurred in the 2016 NAB Challenge match between the Carlton Football Club and Essendon Football Club, played on 28 February 2016 at Princes Park.[1][2]
Tee also became the first female to be appointed field umpire for an AFL home-and-away match, when she was selected to officiate the Essendon and West Coast match in round 9 of the 2017 AFL season.[3] She was congratulated by then Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull.[4]