Surprise surprise: In their today's meeting, UEFA's Referee Committee have decided against changes to the Referee Categories. No changes until June! It seems as if UEFA will only change the categories once a year from now on - in June. > Full List
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Tomorrow, we will very likely get to know the updated UEFA Referee Categories. After analyzing some data, we come to the conclusion that we can expect numerous changes - particularly from Second to First Group. The following diagram illustrates the number of officials in Elite and First Group over the last five couple of years. 2016a means the categories as they were defined in June 2016.
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Deal with troublemakers immediately, says Bjorn Kuipers. During a presentation Kuipers shows a clip of his 2014 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Spanish temper, but as referee you need to deal with that. The clip below starts after Raul Garcia has made tackle and stopped a promising Real attack. You’ll see […]
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Door 6 does not have a visualized match incident, but a Laws of the Game question for you. How would you answer if you were asked this in a test? "You are refereeing an intense derby. Everything has been under your full control so far. Due to some goals and injuries, you award three minutes of additional time. The score is 1:2 for the away team. The home players try everything to score the
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How a referee got nominated as player of the week? Jochem Kamphuis officiated the game between Vitesse and PEC Zwolle in the Eredivisie, the highest football level in The Netherlands. Nathan scored the 3-1. He took off his shirt to show a message in memory of two of his friends from football club Chapecoense who died […]
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Have you seen this week’s penalty kick after nine seconds? The referee news of 5th of December 2016 with the latest stories, interviews, links and more. With a video of that quick penalty kick decision, the latest Champions League appointments and more. The lastes referee appointments Tuesday’s CL games Wednesday’s CL games Thursday’s Europa League […]
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Referee Advent Calendar - Door 5: On next Thursday, UEFA's Referee Committee are going to define the new Referee Categories for the 2nd half of the 2016/17 season. In former times, the category allocation (promotions and demotions) were partly criticized for being politically motivated or at least influenced by the members of the Referee Committee - by us as independent observers, by you as our
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These are the choices made by UEFA Referees Committee for the last matchday of 2016-17 Europa League's group stage. Group L, 8 December 2016, 17:00 CET Estadio El Madrigal, Villarreal (ESP) Villarreal CF - FC Steaua Bucureşti Referee: Manuel Gräfe (GER) Assistant Referee 1: Mike Pickel (GER) Assistant Referee 2: Holger Henschel (GER) Additional Assistant Referee 1: Marco Fritz (GER)
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UEFA has chosen the following officials to take charge of next Wednesday's Champions League matches. Lithuania's Gediminas Mazeika will make his Champions League bow in Leverkusen. Group E, 07 December 2016, 20:45 CET, Leverkusen (GER) Bayer Leverkusen - AS Monaco Referee: Gediminas Mazeika (LTU) Assistant Referee 1: Vytautas Simkus (LTU) Assistant Referee 2: Vytenis Kazlauskas (
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The weekend games once again threw up glaring errors made by our top referees. The second tier of professional referees who operate
The post Hackett’s Verdict: Is decision making at an all time low? appeared first on You Are The Ref.
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The worldwide football community corporately are still mourning the victims of last week's plane crash in Colombia involving huge parts of the Brazilian football team AF Chapecoense. Two football players active in European clubs have shown their solidarity on the field - in a way which is not in accordance with the Laws of the Game. Our rather sad Door no.4. During the French Ligue 1 match
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UEFA has chosen the following officials to take charge of next Tuesday's Champions League matches. Among others, Antonio Mateu Lahoz of Spain has been appointed to control the decisive Group B tie between Benfica and Napoli, while Clément Turpin of France has been assigned to Bayern vs Atlético. Slovenian Slavko Vinčić will make his Champions League debut in Manchester - congrats for that.
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Door 3 concentrates on penalty kicks. It is relatively robust trend that there is 1 penalty in every 4th match on UEFA level (~ 24-27% at EURO 2016 and the last three UCL seasons). As the IFAB modified Law 14, it might be worth to focus on what is and on what is not permitted since then. Please check Law 14 here (starting on page 94). Encroaching Players By the letter of the law, all
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Aberdeen FC recently won their appeal to have a yellow card shown to James Maddison for simulation rescinded. It highlights the lack
The post Hackett’s Verdict: Time for the FA to follow Scotland’s lead appeared first on You Are The Ref.
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Your chance to guess the referees who will take charge of the last group stage matchday of UEFA Champions League - and to win a small prize sponsored by our partners Refsworld UK. Loading...
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The quizzes get tricky sometimes. Last week the score was 3 out of 3 on average. I hope that this week you’ll score at least 4 out 5 correct. Good luck! 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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A delegation from www.you-are-the-ref.com had the pleasure of teaming up with our friends at CALSOUTH, California recently. We were able to look at
The post Top team visit Top Gun appeared first on You Are The Ref.
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Door 2 is opened - below you find all relevant information on next week's UEFA club competitions including referee observers and delegates for Champions and Europa League as well as the match officials for Youth League. > Observers and Delegates for UCL & UEL > Youth League Appointments (check the other post for now)
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These officials will be in charge of next week's Youth League Matchday 6. A| 06.12.2016, 16:00 CET (Basel) FC Basel 1893 - Arsenal FC Referee: Peter Kralović (SVK) Assistant Referee 1: Miroslav Benko (SVK) Assistant Referee 2: Erik Weiss (SVK) Fourth Official: Urs Schnyder (SUI) UEFA Referee Observer: Andreas Schluchter (SUI) UEFA Delegate: Petro Ivanov (UKR) A| 06.12.2016, 15:00 CET (
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The first door of The3rdTeam Referee Advent Calendar is open. And there is a video clip in it! The situation as written text: An attacking player is having an obvious goal-scoring opportunity: Having already left all other defenders behind him, he is only facing the goalkeeper and decides to shoot. The goalkeeper is unable to save the shot, so that the ball is about to go into the goal
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