He was born in the Highland town of Caol near Fort William in Scotland, and played for Aberdeen in the Scottish Football League.
He won the 1976 Scottish League Cup after Aberdeen beat Celtic 2–1 at Hampden Park in front of 69,707 supporters (though he did not take part in the match).
[2] He scored one of his two career goals for Aberdeen in the Anglo-Scottish Cup against St Johnstone on 6 August 1975, winning 2–0,and the other in a friendly game against League of Ireland club Finn Harps on 17 March 1976.
He became the most expensive player to enter the country and had planned to stay in Australia for only one season before returning to the Scottish Football League in a link with Dundee United's Jim McLean, although another broken leg prevented him from doing so.
He then moved to another NSL club, Green Gully, in 1985, where he made 29 appearances and scored 4 goals, winning the 1986 Dockerty Cup.
He then signed for Box Hill Inter in the Victorian Premier League and stayed there for 2 seasons making 62 appearances and scoring 29 goals.
Campbell regularly appeared on Australia's only national football television programme called 'Match of the Day' on free-to-air channel 028, now known as SBS.
Campbell was not eligible for Socceroo representation as he had already represented Scotland, although he did represent Victoria and played against American footballing giants New York Cosmos, featuring German legend Franz Beckenbauer, Dutch legend Johan Neeskens and Carlos Alberto, one of Brazil's most highly regarded defenders of all time.
He currently coaches Xavier College Firsts soccer team and in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2022 led them to win the prestigious Associated Public Schools (APS) trophy and the Australian Jesuit Cup in 2011, 2014, 2015 & 2016.