UEFA has completed the match official appointments for this year's club competition finals in May and June respectively. Among others, Dutch UEFA Referee Committee member Jaap Uilenberg will be the official referee observer assessing the performance of Felix Brych and his teammates in Cardiff's Champions League final between Juventus Turin and Real Madrid. Meanwhile, there has been a change in
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Wolfgang Stark quits refereeing because he has reached the age limit. The man who has officiated the most Bundesliga games ever, will officiate his last game on the highest German football level on May 20th 2017. He is appointed for the game between Borussia Mönchengladbach and SV Darmstadt 98. That’s the 344’t Bundesliga game of the […]
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Another year, another edition of the Laws of the Game. IFAB Laws of the Game that is. After last year’s mouthful of changes, IFAB seems to have opened the floodgates to trying things new because anything and everything is being approved for experimentation. Likely one of the first major competitions to adopt these changes will be […]
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Big refereeing news: Bibiana Steinhaus is the first female referee in the Bundesliga. “It has always been my dream to be active in the Bundesliga”, she says to German media. “I am very pleased that this dream will come true”. She is the first center referee in one of the five biggest competitions in Europe. The 38-year-old […]
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Week 38. After this quiz only one more left before I’ll take a quiz summer break. I hope you’ve enjoyed the quizzes. Good luck with quiz 38! Do you have any wishes or suggestions for the weekly quizzes? Contact me at jan@dutchreferee.com. If you already want to make sure you don’t miss the start of […]
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Danish international referee Jens Maae has been chosen to officiate the final of UEFA's Under-17 EURO 2017 between Spain and England in Croatia. He will be assisted by Finnish Mika Lamppu and Russia's Aleksey Vorontsov on the sidelines. Anastassios Papapetrou from Greece will serve as fourth official. UEFA Vice Refereeing Officer Marc Batta will observe and assess their performance. Good luck!
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The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 19. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or
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Brych to refere CL final 2017 and Skomina ref for Europa League final. Steinhaus will officiate the Women’s CL final. Uefa has announced the referees of the major European competitions early this year. German Felix Brych, who has officiated at five UEFA Champions League fixtures this season, will referee next month’s final between Juventus and […]
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UEFA has appointed German Elite Referee Felix Brych to take charge of the 2017 Champions League final between Juventus and Real Madrid in Cardiff. Slovenian Damir Skomina has been chosen to take charge of the Europa League final between Ajax and Manchester United in Solna. UEFA Champions League Final 2017 3 June 2017, 20:45 CET Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (Wales) Juventus Turin FC -
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Already week 37 of the weekly quizzes. Great to see you participate every week. Good luck with this one! Bezig met laden… Terms and conditions Please find the Terms and Conditions plus links to previous quizzes on the Quiz Page.
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How do you deal with verbal abuse as a referee? Nick Elliot wrote the story for my website: the “beautiful” game. He’s a level 7 referee in England working on a project for university to try and clamp down on verbal abuse towards referee. At the bottom of this post also a video he made […]
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The SSE Women’s FA Cup Final referees are Rebecca Welch, assistant referees Helen Byrne (Liverpool FA) and Abigail Marriott (Suffolk FA) and fourth official Helen Conley (Durham FA). The game between Birmingham City and Manchester City will be played on on Saturday 13 May. “I always wanted to be involved in the Final as a […]
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The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 18. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or
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Ovidiu Alin Hategan of Romania and Poland's Szymon Marciniak have been appointed to take control over Thursday's UEFA Europa League Semifinal return ties in Manchester and Lyon respectively. 11 May 2017, 21:05 CET Old Trafford, Manchester (ENG) Manchester Utd. - Celta Vigo Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (ROU) Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Sovre (ROU) Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Eugen
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Turkey's Elite official Cüneyt Çakır has been appointed to take charge of Derbi madrileño's return game at Estadio Vicente Calderón in the Champions League semifinals. Apart from Çakır's common Assistant Referees, Ali Palabiyik will serve as his Additional Assistant Referee for the first time in UEFA club competitions. Barış Şimşek will be the second AAR, with Emre Eyisoy overseeing the benches
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Dutch Elite Referee Björn Kuipers has been assigned to oversee next Tuesday's UEFA Champions League semifinal return leg between Juventus Turin and AS Monaco. As usual, he will be assisted by Sander van Roekel and Erwin Zeinstra as Assistant Referees. Mario Diks will be the Fourth Official. The team is completed by Danny Makkelie and Pol van Boekel, who are about to fulfill their duties as
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The 2016-2017 started with a bang for Andrew Christiansen. The assistant referee from Faroe Islands got appointed to a game in Andorra with Alex Troleis and Dan Hojgaard between FC Santa Coloma and FC Alaskhert from Armenia. “It was the first time ever that a refereeing team from the Faroe Islands got appointed for a […]
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Uefa will launch ABBA penalty shoot-out trial during the European Under-17 Championship finals. It means that Team A starts, followed by two kicks from Team B, and so on. The ABBA penalty shoot-out trial will be used in both the Women’s tournament in the Czech Republic and the Men’s tournament in Croatia. The order of penalty kicks […]
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The last month of quizzes starts for the 2016-2017 season. May will be the final chance to win some refereeing goodies from Refsworld UK. You have to participate in all 4 quizzes this month to be a contender for one of the prizes. Good luck with this one! Bezig met laden… Terms and conditions […]
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The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 17. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or
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