UEFA Referees – Promotions and Demotions 2015/2016

Men

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Benoît Bastien (FRA, photo), John Beaton (SCO), Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP), Serdar Gözübüyük (NED), Jakob Kehlet (DEN), Istvan Kovacs (ROU), Pawel Raczkowski (POL), Tobias Stieler (GER).

Retired from First Category: Kenn Hansen (DEN). 

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Cristian Balaj (ROU), Marcin Borski (POL), Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP), Christian Dingert (GER), Steven McLean (SCO), Leontios Trattou (CYP), Pol van Boekel (NED).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Thorvaldur Arnason (ISL), Nikola Dabanović (MNE), Andrew Dallas (SCO), Bartosz Frankowski (POL), Tore Hansen (NOR), Enea Jorgji (ALB), Srdjan Jovanović (SRB), Charalampos Kalogeropoulos (GRE), Ville Nevalainen (FIN), Ali Palabiyik (TUR), Bojan Pandzić (SWE), Nikola Popov (BUL), Roi Reinshreiber (ISR), Sandro Schärer (SUI), Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT), Bart Vertenten (BEL), Anatolii Zhabchenko (UKR). 

Retired from Second Category: Michael Lerjeus (SWE). 

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Stanislav Todorov (BUL). 

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Robert Madley (ENG), Frank Schneider (FRA). 

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Alexandros Aretopoulos (GRE), Veaceslav Banari (MDA), Deniz Bitnel (TUR), Jörgen Burchardt (DEN), Andrew Davey (NIR), Nenad Djokić (SRB), Trustin Farrugia (MLT), Juri Frischer (EST), Filip Glova (SVK), Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA), Sergio Grade Piscarreta (POR), Robert Harvey (IRL), Ferenc Karako (HUN), Peter Kjaersgaard (DEN), Georgios Kominis (GRE), Georgios Kyzas (GRE), Kirill Levnikov (RUS), Martin Lundby (NOR), Stavros Mantalos (GRE), Boris Marhefka (SVK), Glenn Nyberg (SWE), Pavel Orel (CZE), Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE), Donatas Rumsas (LTU), Fedayi San (SUI), Joao Silva Pinheiro (POR), Ryan Stewart (WAL), Alex Troleis (FRO), Alper Ulusoy (TUR), Fyodor Zammit (MLT), Mario Zebec (CRO).

Women

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS), Olga Zadinova (CZE).

Retired from Elite: Silvia Spinelli (ITA).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Vesna Budimir (CRO), Lorraine Clark (SCO).

Retired from First Category: Cristina Babadac-Ionescu (ROU).

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Elia Martinez Martinez (ESP).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Julia-Stefanie Baier (AUT), Sarah Garratt (ENG), Marta Frias Acedo (ESP), Justina Lavrenovaite (LTU), Ivana Martincic (CRO), Lois Otte (BEL), Vivian Peeters (NED), Barbara Poxhofer (AUT), Ivana Projkovska (MKD), Tanja Subotic (SVN).

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Yuliya Medvedeva (KAZ).

Retired from Third Category: Lilach Asulin (ISR), Dilan Gokcek Iscan (TUR), Mihaela Gurdon-Basimamovic (CRO), Kristina Husballe (DEN), Zuzana Strpkova (SVK), Marianne Svendsen (DEN).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Sabina Bolic (CRO), Iuliana Demetrescu (ROU), Cheryl Foster (WAL), Michaela Fritz (AUT), Sibel Kolcak (TUR), Maria Marotta (ITA), Alexandra Ponomareva (RUS), Meitar Shemesh (ISR), Rachel Shkuri (ISR), Andromachi Tsiofliki (GRE).

Futsal

Promoted from First Category to Elite:
Kamil Cetin (TUR), Tomasz Frak (POL), Borislav Kolev (BUL), Cedric Pelissier (FRA).

Demoted from Elite to First Category: Sebastian Stawicki (POL).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Josip Barton (MKD), Moshe Bohbot (ISR), Vasileios Christodoulis (GRE), Juan Cordero Gallardo (ESP), Trayan Enchev (BUL), Nikola Jelic (CRO), Vladimir Kadykov (RUS), Costas Nicolaou (CYP), Zdenek Petr (CZE), Elchin Samadli (AZE), Ozan Soykan (TUR), Barry Weijers (NED).

Retired from First Category: Karel Henych (CZE), Danijel Janosevic (CRO).

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Franco Cachia (MLT), Francisco Pena Diaz (ESP), Borut Sivic (SVN).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Victor Berg Audic (FRA), Michalis Christofidis (CYP), Ibrahim El Jilali (NED), Tarik Keco (BIH), Peter Nurse (ENG), Patrik Porkert (AUT), Vladan Radulovic (SRB), Simon Rogers (IRL), David Schaerli (SUI), Simon Todorovic (SVN).

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Daniele Di Resta (ITA), Iuri Neverov (RUS).

Retired from Third Category: Septimiu Burtescu (ROU), Epaminondas Stamoulis (GRE).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Nikola Aleksic (SRB), Vedran Babic (CRO), Mario Belavy (SVK), Clinton Cassar (MLT), Serhat Celik (TUR), Martin Cilek (CZE), Daniel Deca (ROU), Farid Islamov (AZE), Konstantinos Kommatas (GRE), Jan Kresta (CZE), Daniel Matkovic (SUI), Kirill Naishouler (FIN), Grigori Osomkov (EST), Igor Puzovic (BIH), Petar Radojcic (SRB), Omar Rafiq (NOR), Sylvester Rodrigues (NED), Marco Rothenfluh (SUI), Sabit Selvi (TUR), Norbert Szilagyi (HUN), Adalbjorn Thornsteisson (ISL), Lars Van Leeuwen (NED), Yiangos Yiangou (CYP).