Max Rafeek Basheer AM (born 9 May 1927) is a former administrator with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Born in 1927 to Lebanese Druze immigrants,[1] in the early 1950s Basheer was a state amateur rover who was denied a SANFL League football career when North Adelaide refused to clear him to Sturt.
Basheer's administrative football career began in 1954 when he served as an honorary solicitor to the South Australian Amateur Football League and as a Commissioner to the League's Tribunal.
This was a period in which, over and above the usual administrative tasks, he oversaw: The Max Basheer Reserve, which formerly adjoined Football Park and was used as a training oval for the Adelaide Football Club until 2015,[3] was named in honour of Basheer's contributions to the game.
A graduate of the University of Adelaide Law School, Basheer was admitted to the Bar in 1951.