Gillett, 34, was promoted to the highest pool of selected umpires by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) ahead of the current 2021/22 season in June.
He spent nine years in his homeland refereeing in the A-League, Australia’s highest professional men’s football league, before moving to England in 2019 to referee in the EFL.
After having officiated in Ligue 2, Ligue 1 and the league throughout the 2019/20 campaign, the Australian took charge of the semi-final second leg of the league playoffs between Brentford and Bournemouth.
Gillet awarded a penalty and sent off a Bournemouth defender in a thrilling 3-1 win for Brentford – the west London side beating Swansea in the final to end their 74-year absence from the top tier of English football.
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The Australian official has Premier League experience this season as a Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
Watford will look to build on their win over Norwich last weekend, as Newcastle continue their search for their first win this season.
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Gillett becomes the second of three referees to make history this month, following Luis Godhino’s appearance in French Ligue 1 last week.
By taking charge of Bordeaux’s 3-2 home defeat to Lens, Godhino becomes the first Portuguese referee to referee a Ligue 1 match.
Maia Chaka rounded out the September story by becoming the first black woman to officiate an NFL game, overseeing the New York Jets against the Carolina Panthers.
Earlier this year, Rebecca Welch became the first female referee appointed to take charge of an EFL match, 11 years after Amy Fearn became the first woman to referee an EFL match after replacing an injured referee in the finals of the match.
In May, a new football refereeing story was written when Sapir Berman officiated an Israeli Premier League game for the first time since becoming transgender.
