Andrew Dillon will replace Gillon McLachlan in the AFL’s top job at the end of the current season
McLachlan will stay to oversee numerous outstanding issuesThe AFL’s long search for Gillon McLachlan’s successor in “the biggest job in Australian sport” has ended, with the league to keep the role in-house after it confirmed the appointment of Andrew Dillon as its next chief executive.
McLachlan announced last April that he would be stepping down from the top job and wanted to leave before the start of the 2023 season. But he was urged to stay on while an extensive search was undertaken to find his successor.That search has landed on the man who already occupies an office near McLachlan at AFL House in his current role as executive general manager of football operations, legal, integrity and general counsel.
Dillon joined the AFL in 2000 and has since occupied several positions under a number of CEOs before rising to become McLachlan’s second-in-command. He was considered a favourite to win the CEO job among a field that also included Richmond CEO Brendon Gale, Western Bulldogs president Kylie Watson-Wheeler and fellow AFL executives Travis Auld and Kylie Rogers.
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