It’s time for Week 4 of the Laws of the Game Quiz. Because there are 5 Friday’s this month you’ll have to complete all 5 quizzes to be a contender for the competition to win some nice prizes from Refsworld UK. The most difficult question of last week was: 4. A referee drops the ball […]
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Bjorn Kuipers says you always need a referee wallet with two cards in it. Always! A practical tip for referees at all levels. Why do you think this is useful? (You’ll get the advice from Bjorn Kuipers below the picture, but please think about it yourself first.) In Bjorn Kuipers’ right shorts pocket is his […]
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UEFA has appointed the following match officials to referee Youth League Domestic champions path's first round. 21.09.2016, 17:00 CET (Qəbələ) Qəbələ FK - FC Dynamo Moskow Referee: Alper Ulusoy (TUR)Assistant Referee 1: İbrahim Bozbey (TUR)Assistant Referee 2: İlker Takpak (TUR)Fourth Official: Ömər Paşayev (AZE)UEFA Referee Observer: Asim Xudiyev (AZE)UEFA Delegate: Irakli Nakaidze (GEO)
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UEFA has appointed the following match officials to referee next week's Youth League Matchday 2. The assignments for the domestic champions path's first round are about to follow in due course. E| 27.09.2016, 15:00 CET (Monaco)AS Monaco - Bayer Leverkusen Referee: Ionut Marius Avram (ROU) Assistant Referee 1: Valentin Gabriel Avram (ROU) Assistant Referee 2: Alexandru Cerei (ROU) Fourth
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Referee news of week 7: the round red card has returned. And there’s a laugh from Zlatan about Michael Oliver’s accident, match incidents by the 3rd Team and a new French Fifa referee. The round red card is back The Twitter account Celebrity Refs always shares funny things about referees. Mike Dean is always an […]
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Second matchday of UEFA Champions League means that our prediction game "Guess The Referee" is going into its second matchday, too. Our partners from Refsworld UK are offering you some goodies from their store. All you have to do to win some useful refereeing equipment for your own games is making predictions at a more or less regular basis. If you are not interested in winning
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When the IFAB defined almost 100 changes to the Laws of the Game, some of them appeared to be quite theoretical, not to say irrelevant. Even the referee instructors in my own association told us, their referees, that most of the changes would be probably never needed in praxis. Last week's Champions League and Europa League Matchday 1 disabuse those voices. Situations 1 and 2: Denying an
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Guessing the referees for the next Champions League round has been a nice element in this blog for a couple of years. Why not making a game or even contest out of that? Similar to DutchReferees' Laws of the Game quiz, our partners from Refsworld UK are offering you some goodies from their store. All you have to do to win some useful refereeing equipment for your own games is making
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These are the officials appointed by UEFA for 2016/17 Europa League Matchday 1. Group J, 15 September 2016, 17:00 CET Dalga Stadium, Baku (AZE) Qarabağ FK - Slovan Liberec Referee: Stephan Klossner (SUI) Assistant Referee 1: Raffael Zeder (SUI) Assistant Referee 2: Jean-Yves Wicht (SUI) Additional Assistant Referee 1: Alain Bieri (SUI) Additional Assistant Referee 2: Sascha Amhof (SUI)
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The following officials will complete the appointments for 2016/17 Champions League's Group Stage Matchday 1. E| 14.09.2016, 20:45 CET BayArena, Leverkusen (GER) Bayer Leverkusen - CSKA Moskva Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA) Assistant Referee 1: Riccardo Di Fiore (ITA) Assistant Referee 2: Lorenzo Manganelli (ITA) Additional Assistant Referee 1: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni (ITA) Additional
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UEFA has chosen these officials to kick off the 2016/17 Champions League group stage. Among others, Category 1 referee Anthony Taylor will be observed by Marc Batta in München, while Hungarian Viktor Kassai will control the top clash involving PSG from France and Arsenal from England. A| 13.09.2016, 20:45 CET Parc des Princes, Paris (FRA) Paris SG - Arsenal Referee: Viktor Kassai (HUN)
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UEFA has appointed the officials for next week's Matchday 1 of this season's Youth League group stage. Group Stage, Matchday 1 A| 13.09.2016, 16:00 CET (Basel) FC Basel 1893 - PFC Ludogorets 1945 Referee: Boris Marhefka (SVK) Assistant Referee 1: Tomas Vorel (SVK) Assistant Referee 2: Branislav Hancko (SVK) Fourth Official: Lukas Fähndrich (SUI) UEFA Referee Observer: Andreas Schluchter
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UEFA has appointed the Referee Observers and Delegates of next week's first Champions League matchday of the new 2016/17 campaign. As the observers usually indicate the type and level of referee who is about to handle the respective match, they are contrasted with the predictions made by the community (84 voters) and me. UEFA Champions League - Matchday 1 Paris SG - Arsenal FC (Group A)
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Thanks to some federations, we already know the names of a few referees appointed for the first Matchday of 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (UEFA Zone). The missing names, including observers, will be added in due course. 04 September 2016 Group C, 18:00, Serravalle San Marino - Azerbaijan Referee: Sébastien Delferiere (Belgium) Assistant Referee 1: Yves de Neve (Belgium) Assistant Referee
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These are some appointments for friendly games to be played on next days. If you know an appointment that is still missing in the list below, don't hesitate to inform us! 31/08 Albania - Morocco Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 1: Matej Žunič (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 2: Manuel Vidali (Slovenia) Fourth Official: Enea Jorgji (Albania) Czech Republic - Armenia Referee:
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The following video clip collection focuses on the topic "Denying an Obvious Goal-Scoring Opportunity" (DOGSO) inside the penalty area. Since the IFAB's revision of Law 12, the difference between DOGSO offences outside and inside the penalty area is crucial and mainly determines the disciplinary sanction. Theory The following wording applies: "Where a player denies the opposing
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When Mark Clattenburg blew the final whistle in Saint-Denis’ EURO 2016 Final between Portugal and France, he concluded what can be seen as the most successful tournament in terms of refereeing in recent history. Participating in such international tournaments as a referee or referee observer is only possible for FIFA match officials or international referee observers - at least that's what you
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The following video clip collection focuses on the topic "Denying an Obvious Goal-Scoring Opportunity" (DOGSO) outside the penalty area. Since the IFAB's revision of Law 12, the difference between DOGSO offences outside and inside the penalty area is crucial and mainly determines the disciplinary sanction. Theory --[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false
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Creating uniformity while maintaining an adequate and situation-based judgment is a task every referee instructor knows when training his or her match officials. This particularly counts for handballs that are undoubtfully one of the blindest spots in terms of consistent Laws of the Game application and that are often judged diametrically different from one referee to the other. Although
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UEFA has appointed the following officials to handle the second legs of Europa League's Play-off Round on 25 August 2016. 25 August 2016 Baku, 18:30 CET Qarabağ FK (AZE) - IFK Göteborg (SWE) Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS) Assistant Referee 1: Valeriy Danchenko (RUS) Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS) Fourth Official: Kirill Levnikov (RUS) UEFA Referee Observer:
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