Ray Chamberlain

Most people know ‘Razor Ray’ Chamberlain as the larger than life AFL Umpire who stamps his mark on the game each week!

Ray is an enigmatic character who struts his stuff on the field often making it into the media for some of his on-field antics. What most don’t know is that there is much more to Ray than meets the eye!

From a footy perspective, Ray has officiated in over 301 games and counting, 30 pre-seasons, International Rules 2011, and will be honoured with an AFL Life Membership at the start of next season. With 20 Finals, 4 Prelims and 2 Grand Finals, Ray is in the elite class of being 1 of only 68 field umpires in the history of the game to officiate as a field umpire in an AFL Grand Final. This is certainly an elite club.

He is also 1 of only 4 umpires with over 100 games of AFL football consecutively as a field umpire to his name. But umpiring is only one string to his bow. Growing up in the ACT, Ray played representative cricket at state level in U/19 & U/21’s and also at National Championships and Senior Level.

He has a teaching degree in Secondary Education and a Diploma of Financial Services and Mortgage Broking. Ray is a Co-founder of the Chamberlain Foundation – which was formed to raise funds to donate to organisations working at the coal face of suicide prevention and mental health/grief support. The Foundation have donated $330,000 in just over 2 years to organisations including Lifeline, Griefline, RUOK? to name a few.

Ray is a breath of fresh air for any event, an engaging speaker on footy, cricket, mental health prevention and all aspects of life, his ability to connect with people and inject humour into any event is not what you would expect from the ‘public persona’ of Razor Ray!