A wingman, he represented South Australia at the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival and played six times in all for his state during his career, included a match as captain in 1994.
After another attempt to launch an AFL career, at Richmond, Payze became a foundation player at the Adelaide Crows when they joined the competition in 1991.
He however could only manage 14 appearances and continued in the SANFL, with the newly formed Woodville-West Torrens, with whom he was a premiership winner in 1993.
Andrew Payze is now a development coach for St Peter's Old Collegians Football Club in the Adelaide Footy League.
For work, he is an Associate Director at Morton Philips, Adelaide's premier Executive Search Firm.