FIFA Club World Cup 2018 – Semi-finals

18-19 December 2018

River Plate – Al Ain
Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (ITA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mauro Tonolini (ITA)
Fourth Official: Ryuji Sato (JPN)
Reserve AR: Toru Sagara (JPN)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
AVAR 1: Pawel Gil (POL)
AVAR 2: Hiroshi Yamauchi (JPN)
AVAR 3: Mark Geiger (USA)

Kashima Antlers – Real Madrid
Referee: Wilton Sampaio (BRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Rodrigo Figueiredo (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bruno Boschilia (BRA)
Fourth Official: Matthew Conger (NZL)
Reserve AR: Tevita Makasini (TGA)
VAR: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)
AVAR 1: Abdulla Mohammed (UAE)
AVAR 2: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
AVAR 3: Danny Makkelie (NED)

FIFA Club World Cup 2018 – Match for Fifth Place

18 December 2018

ES Tunis – CD Guadalajara
Referee: Matthew Conger (NZL, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Tevita Makasini (TGA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mark Rule (NZL)
Fourth Official: Jair Marrufo (USA)
Reserve AR: Frank Anderson (USA)
VAR: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)
AVAR 1: Abdulla Mohammed (UAE)
AVAR 2: Corey Rockwell (USA)
AVAR 3: Danny Makkelie (NED)

CONMEBOL U-20 Championship 2019

Chile, 17 January – 10 February 2019

Referee: Fernando Rapallini (ARG, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Ezequiel Brailovsky (ARG)
Assistant Referee 2: Gabriel Chade (ARG)

Referee: Gery Vargas (BOL)
Assistant Referee 1: Jose Antelo (BOL)
Assistant Referee 2: Edwar Saavedra (BOL)

Referee: Raphael Claus (BRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Kleber Gil (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bruno Pires (BRA)

Referee: Piero Maza (CHI)
Assistant Referee 1: Claudio Rios (CHI)
Assistant Referee 2: Jose Retamal (CHI)

Referee: Nicolas Gallo (COL)
Assistant Referee 1: Alexander Leon (COL)
Assistant Referee 2: Wilmar Navarro (COL)

Referee: Carlos Orbe (ECU)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Macias (ECU)
Assistant Referee 2: Ricardo Baren (ECU)

Referee: Mario Diaz de Vivar (PAR)
Assistant Referee 1: Roberto Canete (PAR)
Assistant Referee 2: Dario Gaona (PAR)

Referee: Joel Alarcon (PER)
Assistant Referee 1: Victor Raez (PER)
Assistant Referee 2: Michael Orue (PER)

Referee: Leodan Gonzalez (URU)
Assistant Referee 1: Richard Trinidad (URU)
Assistant Referee 2: Carlos Barreiro (URU)

Referee: Alexis Herrera (VEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Carlos Lopez (VEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Jorge Urrego (VEN)

Support Referees
1. Facundo Tello (ARG)
2. Cristian Garay (CHI)

FIFA Club World Cup 2018 – Second Round

15 December 2018

Kashima Antlers – CD Guadalajara
Referee: Bamlak Tessema (ETH, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Zakhele Siwela (RSA)
Assistant Referee 2: Waleed Ahmed (SUD)
Fourth Official: Wilton Sampaio (BRA)
Reserve AR: Rodrigo Figueiredo (BRA)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
AVAR 1: Abdulla Mohammed (UAE)
AVAR 2: Bruno Boschilia (BRA)
AVAR 3: Danny Makkelie (NED)

ES Tunis – Al Ain
Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA)
Assistant Referee 1: Frank Anderson (USA)
Assistant Referee 2: Corey Rockwell (USA)
Fourth Official: Ryuji Sato (JPN)
Reserve AR: Hiroshi Yamauchi (JPN)
VAR: Mark Geiger (USA)
AVAR 1: Paweł Gil (POL)
AVAR 2: Toru Sagara (JPN)
AVAR 3: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)

VAR at the Women’s World Cup?

As the men’s World Cup was winding down last summer in Russia, FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, used his final news conference to heap praise on the video assistant referee system, which had been used for the first time at the tournament. It had become, Infantino declared, “difficult to think about the World Cup without VAR”. It remains to be seen whether Infantino was referring only to the men’s game when he essentially called the technology indispensable.

To the dismay of some top players and coaches in the women’s game, FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, has not confirmed whether VAR will be used at the Women’s World Cup next summer in France. For some, the organization’s failure to take advantage of the technology - already widely used in men’s domestic leagues and coming soon to the UEFA Champions League, club soccer’s highest-profile competition - is yet another sign that the organization sees female players as second-class citizens. “The men had it at their World Cup,” said Becky Sauerbrunn, a veteran defender for the United States women’s team. “The women should have it at theirs”. Still, six months before the opening game of the World Cup, and days before the draw to set the field, the fact that FIFA had not revealed a decision on VAR for the tournament left some players rolling their eyes. The American coach Jill Ellis said she had been at a coaching seminar in Zurich in October when a FIFA official explained that the organization was focusing on March as a deadline to make a decision on whether it would implement the video technology at the women’s tournament.

In an email, a FIFA spokesman said, “We are still in an evaluation phase,” but declined to comment further on the process. The organization may, however, be quietly working on a solution. This week, FIFA named the 27 referees and 48 assistant referees - all of them women - slated to work at the World Cup next summer. This month in Abu Dhabi, those referees will take part in the first of several training seminars leading to the World Cup. The current program for the first seminar includes sessions focused on video review, according to a person familiar with the schedule. That suggests that FIFA will make an effort to begin training the referees to use the VAR system, though it offers no guarantee that it will be implemented next summer. FIFA’s video review system employs a video assistant referee — working either on site or in a video room at a remote location — in addition to the traditional crew of four officials on the field. The video assistant role requires the most specialized training, according to several referees experienced with the system, while the on-field referees would primarily need practice communicating with the system in live settings. That has led some to envision a hypothetical situation (among many hypothetical situations) in which a group of male assistant video referees - the great majority of international officials trained in the technology, at the moment, are men - could be added to the previously announced all-female refereeing roster. The move would be controversial - the Women’s World Cup has long been overseen only by female officials - but Ellis supports it. “Hire the men in the booth, then”, Ellis said about the idea that there might not be enough time to train the female officials. “I don’t care about gender. I want equality”.

Source: New York Times

UEFA Europa League – Group Stage (Matchday 6)

13 December 2018

Olympiakos – AC Milan
Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Frédéric Haquette (FRA)
Fourth Official: Philippe Jeanne (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Benoît Millot (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Jérôme Miguelgorry (FRA)
Referee Observer: Jørn West Larsen (DEN)

Villarreal CF – Spartak Moskva
Referee: Andris Treimanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs (LVA)
Fourth Official: Raimonds Tatriks (LVA)
Additional AR 1: Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA)
Additional AR 2: Edgars Maļcevs (LVA)
Referee Observer: Bo Karlsson (SWE)

Rapid Wien – Rangers FC
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Costanzo (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Alberto Tegoni (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Marco Guida (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Piero Giacomelli (ITA)
Referee Observer: Shmuel Shteif (ISR)

Olympique de Marseille – Apóllon Limassol
Referee: Radu Petrescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Grigoriu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Vladimir Urzică (ROU)
Additional AR 1: Sebastian Colțescu (ROU)
Additional AR 2: Marcel Bîrsan (ROU)
Referee Observer: Guy Goethals (BEL)

Lazio – Eintracht Frankfurt
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Kerem Ersoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: İbrahim Uyarcan (TUR)
Fourth Official: Ceyhun Sesigüzel (TUR)
Additional AR 1: Alper Ulusoy (TUR)
Additional AR 2: Ümit Öztürk (TUR)
Referee Observer: Manuel Mejuto González (ESP)

Beşiktaş JK – Malmö FF
Referee: Luca Banti (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Lorenzo Manganelli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Gianluca Vuoto (ITA)
Fourth Official: Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Maurizio Mariani (ITA)
Referee Observer: Ichko Lozev (BUL)

KRC Genk – Sarpsborg FF
Referee: István Kovács (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Marinescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Alexandru Cerei (ROU)
Additional AR 1: Marius Avram (ROU)
Additional AR 2: Horațiu Feșnic (ROU)
Referee Observer: Herbert Fandel (GER)

Sevilla FC – FC Krasnodar
Referee: Daniel Stefański (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marcin Boniek (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Dawid Golis (POL)
Fourth Official: Krzysztof Myrmus (POL)
Additional AR 1: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Additional AR 2: Zbigniew Dobrynin (POL)
Referee Observer: Ilkka Koho (FIN)

Akhisarspor – Standard de Liège
Referee: Ádám Farkas (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Balázs Buzás (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Balázs Szert (HUN)
Fourth Official: Péter Kóbor (HUN)
Additional AR 1: Sándor Andó-Szabó (HUN)
Additional AR 2: Péter Solymosi (HUN)
Referee Observer: Lucílio Batista (POR)

Stade Rennais – FC Astana
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Charles Schaap (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan de Vries (NED)
Fourth Official: Davie Goossens (NED)
Additional AR 1: Kevin Blom (NED)
Additional AR 2: Siemen Mulder (NED)
Referee Observer: Sándor Piller (HUN)

Dynamo Kyiv – FK Jablonec
Referee: Vilhjálmur Thórarinsson (ISL)
Assistant Referee 1: Gylfi Sigurdsson (ISL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jóhann Gudmundsson (ISL)
Fourth Official: Birkir Sigurdarson (ISL)
Additional AR 1: Ívar Kristjánsson (ISL)
Additional AR 2: Thóroddur Hjaltalín (ISL)
Referee Observer: Murat Ilgaz (TUR)

PAOK FC – Bate Borisov
Referee: Tobias Welz (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Rafael Foltyn (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Markus Häcker (GER)
Fourth Official: Dominik Schaal (GER)
Additional AR 1: Marco Fritz (GER)
Additional AR 2: Christian Dingert (GER)
Referee Observer: Andrejs Sipailo (LVA)

MOL Vidi – Chelsea FC
Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (MKD)
Assistant Referee 1: Marjan Kirovski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 2: Dejan Kostadinov (MKD)
Fourth Official: Nikola Karakolev (MKD)
Additional AR 1: Dimitar Mečkarovski (MKD)
Additional AR 2: Dejan Jakimovski (MKD)
Referee Observer: Michális Argyroú (CYP)

AEK Larnaca – Bayer Leverkusen
Referee: François Letexier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Huseyin Ocak (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Frank Schneider (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Mikaël Lesage (FRA)
Referee Observer: Matteo Trefoloni (ITA)

PFC Ludogorets – FC Zürich
Referee: Kirill Levnikov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Valeriy Danchenko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Dmitriy Mosyakin (RUS)
Additional AR 1: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS)
Additional AR 2: Aleksey Eskov (RUS)
Referee Observer: Jan Wegereef (NED)

RB Leipzig – Rosenborg BK
Referee: Serhiy Boyko (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Volodymyr Volodin (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Ihor Alokhin (UKR)
Fourth Official: Semen Shlonchak (UKR)
Additional AR 1: Mykola Balakin (UKR)
Additional AR 2: Anatoliy Abdula (UKR)
Referee Observer: Goran Mihaljević (MNE)

Celtic FC – Red Bull Salzburg
Referee: Ruddy Buquet (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Guillaume Debart (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Julien Pacelli (FRA)
Fourth Official: Benjamin Pagès (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Jérôme Brisard (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Olivier Thual (FRA)
Referee Observer: Darko Čeferin (SVN)

FC København – Girondins de Bordeaux
Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Mustafa Eyisoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Kemal Yılmaz (TUR)
Fourth Official: Serkan Ok (TUR)
Additional AR 1: Mete Kalkavan (TUR)
Additional AR 2: Barış Şimşek (TUR)
Referee Observer: Volodymyr Petrov (UKR)

Slavia Praha – FC Zenit
Referee: Andrew Dallas (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Francis Connor (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Douglas Potter (SCO)
Fourth Official: Stuart Stevenson (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Greg Aitken (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Euan Anderson (SCO)
Referee Observer: Jaap Uilenberg (NED)

Spartak Trnava – Fenerbahçe SK
Referee: José Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Raúl Cabañero Martínez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Javier Aguilar Rodríguez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP)
Additional AR 1: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (ESP)
Additional AR 2: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Referee Observer: Iain Robertson Brines (SCO)

GNK Dinamo – RSC Anderlecht
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Raffael Zeder (SUI)
Additional AR 1: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Additional AR 2: Lukas Fähndrich (SUI)
Referee Observer: Michális Koukoulákis (GRE)

Sporting CP – Vorskla Poltava
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Steinacher (AUT)
Fourth Official: Stefan Kühr (AUT)
Additional AR 1: Oliver Drachta (AUT)
Additional AR 2: Dieter Muckenhammer (AUT)
Referee Observer: Elmir Pilav (BIH)

Arsenal FC – Qarabağ FK
Referee: Jens Maae (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Lars Hummelgaard (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Heine Sørensen (DEN)
Fourth Official: Jesper Dahl (DEN)
Additional AR 1: Jørgen Burchardt (DEN)
Additional AR 2: Morten Krogh (DEN)
Referee Observer: Stávros Tritsónis (GRE)

F91 Dudelange – Real Betis Balompié
Referee: Peter Královič (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Miroslav Benko (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Erik Weiss (SVK)
Fourth Official: Tomáš Mókoš (SVK)
Additional AR 1: Michal Očenáš (SVK)
Additional AR 2: Boris Marhefka (SVK)
Referee Observer: Petteri Kari (FIN)

FIFA Club World Cup 2018 – First Round

12 December 2018

Al Ain – Team Wellington
Referee: Ryuji Sato (JPN, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Toru Sagara (JPN)
Assistant Referee 2: Hiroshi Yamauchi (JPN)
Fourth Official: Gianluca Rocchi (ITA)
Reserve AR: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
VAR: Danny Makkelie (NED)
AVAR 1: Pawel Gil (POL)
AVAR 2: Mauro Tonolini (ITA)
AVAR 3: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)

UEFA Champions League – Group Stage (Matchday 6)

11 December 2018
Liverpool FC – SSC Napoli
Referee: Damir Skomina (SVN, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Jure Praprotnik (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Vukan (SVN)
Fourth Official: Tomaž Klančnik (SVN)
Additional AR 1: Slavko Vinčič (SVN)
Additional AR 2: Matej Jug (SVN)
Referee Observer: Hugh Dallas (SCO)

Galatasaray – FC Porto
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR)
Assistant Referee 1: Dzmitry Žuk (BLR)
Assistant Referee 2: Alieh Maslianka (BLR)
Fourth Official: Jury Chomčanka (BLR)
Additional AR 1: Dzianis Ščarbakov (BLR)
Additional AR 2: Dzmitry Dzmitryeŭ (BLR)
Referee Observer: Patrick Kelly (IRL)

FC Schalke – Lokomotiv Moskva
Referee: Anastásios Sidirópoulos (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Polychrónis Kostarás (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Lázaros Dimitriádis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Damianós Efthymiádis (GRE)
Additional AR 1: Anastásios Papapétrou (GRE)
Additional AR 2: Ioánnis Papadópoulos (GRE)
Referee Observer: Alain Hamer (LUX)

Club Brugge – Atlético de Madrid
Referee: Davide Massa (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Filippo Meli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Stefano Alassio (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Referee Observer: Bertrand Layec (FRA)

AS Monaco – Borussia Dortmund
Referee: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Ian Hussin (ENG)
Fourth Official: Constantine Hatzidakis (ENG)
Additional AR 1: Paul Tierney (ENG)
Additional AR 2: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG)
Referee Observer: Kóstas Kapitanís (CYP)

FC Barcelona – Tottenham Hotspur
Referee: Milorad Mažić (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristić (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Dalibor Djurdjević (SRB)
Fourth Official: Nemanja Petrović (SRB)
Additional AR 1: Nenad Djokić (SRB)
Additional AR 2: Danilo Grujić (SRB)
Referee Observer: Nikolai Levnikov (RUS)

Internazionale Milano – PSV Eindhoven
Referee: Felix Zwayer (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Thorsten Schiffner (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Marco Achmüller (GER)
Fourth Official: Eduard Beitinger (GER)
Additional AR 1: Daniel Siebert (GER)
Additional AR 2: Sascha Stegemann (GER)
Referee Observer: Alexandru Deaconu (ROU)

Crvena Zvezda – Paris St. Germain
Referee: William Collum (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: David McGeachie (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Graeme Stewart (SCO)
Fourth Official: Alan Mulvanny (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Kevin Clancy (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Nicolas Walsh (SCO)
Referee Observer: Juan Fernández Marín (ESP)

12 December 2018
Real Madrid – CSKA Moskva
Referee: Artur Soares Dias (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Rui Barbosa (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Paulo Santos (POR)
Fourth Official: Bruno Campos (POR)
Additional AR 1: Hugo Miguel (POR)
Additional AR 2: João Pinheiro (POR)
Referee Observer: Kaj Østergaard (DEN)

Viktoria Plzeň – AS Roma
Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Gary Beswick (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Nunn (ENG)
Fourth Official: Stephen Child (ENG)
Additional AR 1: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
Additional AR 2: Martin Atkinson (ENG)
Referee Observer: Frank De Bleeckere (BEL)

AFC Ajax – Bayern München
Referee: Clément Turpin (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA)
Fourth Official: Bertrand Jouannaud (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Nicolas Rainville (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Karim Abed (FRA)
Referee Observer: Vladimir Antonov (MDA)

SL Benfica – AEK Athens
Referee: Robert Madden (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Alastair Mather (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Sean Carr (SCO)
Fourth Official: David Roome (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Donald Robertson (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Alan Muir (SCO)
Referee Observer: Francesco Bianchi (SUI)

Shakhtar Donetsk – Olympique Lyonnais
Referee: Björn Kuipers (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Fourth Official: Mario Diks (NED)
Additional AR 1: Dennis Johan Higler (NED)
Additional AR 2: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Referee Observer: Dušan Krchňák (SVK)

Manchester City – TSG Hoffenheim
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehmet Culum (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Hallberg (SWE)
Fourth Official: Fredrik Klyver (SWE)
Additional AR 1: Kristoffer Karlsson (SWE)
Additional AR 2: Glenn Nyberg (SWE)
Referee Observer: Alfredo Trentalange (ITA)

BSC Young Boys – Juventus FC
Referee: Tobias Stieler (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mike Pickel (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan Seidel (GER)
Fourth Official: Christian Gittelmann (GER)
Additional AR 1: Bastian Dankert (GER)
Additional AR 2: Harm Osmers (GER)
Referee Observer: Miroslav Liba (CZE)

Valencia CF – Manchester United
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Margaritov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Georgi Todorov (BUL)
Additional AR 1: Nikola Popov (BUL)
Additional AR 2: Stanislav Todorov (BUL)
Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)

CONMEBOL Copa Sudamericana Final 2018 (Second Leg)

12 December 2018

Atletico Paranaense – Junior
Referee: Roberto Tobar (CHI, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Schiemann (CHI)
Assistant Referee 2: Claudio Rios (CHI)
Fourth Official: Roddy Zambrano (ECU)
VAR: Julio Bascuñan (CHI)
AVAR 1: Piero Maza (CHI)
AVAR 2: Carlos Astroza (CHI)
VAR Observer: Enrique Osses (CHI)
Referee Assessor: Ubaldo Aquino (PAR)

UEFA Youth League – Group Stage (Matchday 6)

11-12 December 2018

Galatasaray – FC Porto
Referee: Stephan Klossner (SUI, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Zürcher (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Matthias Sbrissa (SUI)
Fourth Official: Can Cengiz (TUR)
Referee Observer: Sabri Çelik (TUR)

AS Monaco – Borussia Dortmund
Referee: Luca Barbeno (SMR)
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Ercolani (SMR)
Assistant Referee 2: Ernesto Cristiano (SMR)
Fourth Official: Florent Batta (FRA)
Referee Observer: Bernardino González Vázquez (ESP)

Internazionale Milano – PSV Eindhoven
Referee: Rade Obrenovič (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomislav Pospeh (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Matej Vojska (SVN)
Fourth Official: Lorenzo Maggioni (ITA)
Referee Observer: Ján Fašung (SVK)

Liverpool FC – SSC Napoli
Referee: Mario Zebec (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Borut Križarić (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Jerko Crnčić (CRO)
Fourth Official: Peter Wright (ENG)
Referee Observer: Edward Foley (IRL)

FC Schalke – Lokomotiv Moskva
Referee: Timótheos Christofí (CYP)
Assistant Referee 1: Pávlos Georgíou (CYP)
Assistant Referee 2: Omiros Tziortzís (CYP)
Fourth Official: Sven Waschitzki (GER)
Referee Observer: Jens Larsen (DEN)

Club Brugge – Atlético de Madrid
Referee: Irfan Peljto (BIH)
Assistant Referee 1: Senad Ibrišimbegović (BIH)
Assistant Referee 2: Davor Beljo (BIH)
Fourth Official: Jasper Vergoote (BEL)
Referee Observer: Joeri Van De Velde (BEL)

FC Barcelona – Tottenham Hotspur
Referee: Antti Munukka (FIN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jukka Honkanen (FIN)
Assistant Referee 2: Juuso Mantere (FIN)
Fourth Official: Víctor García Verdura (ESP)
Referee Observer: Brian Lawlor (WAL)

Crvena Zvezda – Paris St. Germain
Referee: Nejc Kajtazovič (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Grega Kordež (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: David Gabrovec (SVN)
Fourth Official: Ivan Stamenković (SRB)
Referee Observer: Dejan Filipović (SRB)

Shakhtar Donetsk – Olympique Lyonnais
Referee: Tomasz Musiał (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marek Arys (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Bartosz Heinig (POL)
Fourth Official: Dmytro Kryvushkin (UKR)
Referee Observer: Vasyl Melnychuk (UKR)

Viktoria Plzeň – AS Roma
Referee: Filip Glova (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Peter Kováč (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Jekkel (SVK)
Fourth Official: Vojtěch Severýn (CZE)
Referee Observer: Karel Bohuněk (CZE)

Valencia CF – Manchester United FC
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (LUX)
Assistant Referee 1: David Santos (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: Joaquim Gomes (LUX)
Fourth Official: Iván Muñoz Pérez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP)

BSC Young Boys – Juventus FC
Referee: Admir Šehović (BIH)
Assistant Referee 1: Sreten Udovičić (BIH)
Assistant Referee 2: Goran Dujak (BIH)
Fourth Official: Sven Wolfensberger (SUI)
Referee Observer: Markus Nobs (SUI)

Real Madrid – CSKA Moskva
Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas (LTU)
Assistant Referee 1: Edgaras Bučinskas (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mangirdas Mirauskas (LTU)
Fourth Official: Manuel Pérez Hernández (ESP)
Referee Observer: Kostadin Gerginov (BUL)

AFC Ajax – Bayern München
Referee: Alexander Harkam (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Witschnigg (AUT)
Fourth Official: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
Referee Observer: Hans Reijgwart (NED)

SL Benfica – AEK Athens
Referee: Espen Eskås (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Øystein Ytterland (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Morten Jensen (NOR)
Fourth Official: Rui Rodrigues (POR)
Referee Observer: Nuno Castro (POR)

Manchester City – TSG Hoffenheim
Referee: Tore Hansen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Geir Isaksen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Isaak Bashevkin (NOR)
Fourth Official: Martin Coy (ENG)
Referee Observer: Peter Jones (ENG)