ABSTRACTThis paper studies the problem of global output feedback stabilisation for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems with the unknown output function. By constructing the appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and observer, skillfully combining generalised adding a power integrator technique, sign function and homogeneous domination approach, an output feedback controller is designed to guarantee globally uniformly asymptotical stability of nonlinear time-delay systems with the unknown output function.