Umpiring

Interested in umpiring?

We are unable to play without the contribution of our fantastic contigent of umpires amongst the club. Infact, the majority of our umpiring duties are undertaken by actively playing club members who also umpire on the days they don't play, or games adjacent (or close to) their own games. Umpires can nominate for regular weekly duties, occasional or ad-hoc roles.

While umpiring is a great way to get more involved in the game and give back to the sport & club, it’s also a great side earner!

Umpiring juniors can great pocket money earner for school/uni students, while umpiring senior competition games can pay $50+ per game (and even more for higher grades or umpire qualifications).

If either you or someone you know is interested please contact Ray at umpiring.unswhockey@gmail.com with any queries including, but not limited to:

Questions, concerns, or hesitations about umpiring
Online registration and online self training
Training, mentoring and practical assessments (umpiring trial or comp game) - higher level means better grade games and higher pay!

There are umpiring opportitnies for people intereseted at all levels from begineers to first grade level.

Club Umpiring Duties

Juniors - Friday night and Saturday Mornings

We typically need to provide an umpire for each junior team on Friday nights (U14, U16, U18) and Saturday mornings (U10, U12). The metro comp is all over Sydney, whereas the SEHA Junior comp is mostly at Daceyville, Kyeemagh, Sutherland, Marang, Glebe and Bankstown.

Junior games are a great way to learn umpiring and get some on field experience, with umpires ranging from new, in-training junior umpires, to seniors players and keen parents. Players often umpire around their own games as a great way to get into umpiring and earn some pocket money.

There will be an umpire training session during the season to learn all you need to know, and the SEHA site has some great resources to get started with umpiring. https://www.seha.com.au/development/umpiring/

Women’s - Sunday matches

You may or may not know, but each week we are required to supply 1 umpire for each women's game we field in the competition.

We are required to nominate an umpire for each of our teams entered (6 in 2026) in the SWHL (ML) competition.

For the SEHA ED comp there is a pool of umpires which we also contribute non-playing and playing umpires to. There are also opportunties for umpires of all levels (including beginngers and those moving up from juniors) to undertake ad-hoc duties.

SEHA (ED) games are generally at Daceyville and Kyeemagh, with a few days a year at other venues

SWHL (ML) games are all over Sydney but with more centred around Olympic Park

Men’s - Saturday afternoon to evening

Sydney Hockey (Men's) also have a separate system (centrally allocated and paid for by the competition) of umpires should you wish to umpire mens games (mostly Saturday). Generally centrally allocated umpires would need to be available most weeks of the season (i.e. regular) and the coordinator will roster you around your own playing game (should you be a mens comp player).

During many weeks of the year there will also be games where the club needs to provide umpires to our own or adjacent games. These are good opportunities for umpires to undertake ad-hoc duties.

Any questions, please contact us at umpiring.unswhockey@gmail.com