Referee joint-preparation for 2018 and 2019 World Cups (UEFA)

The third FIFA seminar for referees pre-selected for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup takes place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 19 to 23 September 2016. Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli is currently on his honeymoon and will be missing this seminar. However, his assistants (Di Liberatore and Tonolini) are participating along with referees Orsato and Rocchi. At this time, it is not clear whether Rizzoli had withdrawn from the selection for the 2018 World Cup and his ARs have been re-assigned to Rocchi/Orsato or why Rocchi’s usual assistants are not attending the course. On the women’s side, only referees have been invited to this seminar. Potential candidates Staubli, Vitulano, Kulcsar and Larsson are not able to participate due to being assigned Euro qualifiers on 19-20 September 2016.


Referee Trios (FWC 2018)

Referee: Felix Brych (GER, 1975)
Assistant Referee 1: Mark Borsch (GER, 1977)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER, 1978)

Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (TUR, 1976)
Assistant Referee 1: Bahattin Duran (TUR, 1975)
Assistant Referee 2: Tarik Ongun (TUR, 1973)

Referee: Mark Clattenburg (ENG, 1975)
Assistant Referee 1: Jake Collin (ENG, 1972)
Assistant Referee 2: Simon Bennett (ENG, 1985)

Referee: William Collum (SCO, 1979)
Assistant Referee 1: Francis Connor (SCO, 1981)
Assistant Referee 2: Douglas Ross (SCO, 1983)

Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE, 1974)
Assistant Referee 1: Mathias Klasenius (SWE, 1975)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Warnmark (SWE, 1974)

Referee: Ovidiu Hategan (ROU, 1980)
Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Sovre (ROU, 1973)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU, 1976)

Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS, 1979)
Assistant Referee 1: Tikhon Kalugin (RUS, 1974)
Assistant Referee 2: Anton Averianov (RUS, 1973)

Referee: Viktor Kassai (HUN, 1975)
Assistant Referee 1: Gyorgy Ring (HUN, 1981)
Assistant Referee 2: Vencel Toth (HUN, 1978)

Referee: Pavel Kralovec (CZE, 1977)
Assistant Referee 1: Roman Slysko (SVK, 1973)
Assistant Referee 2: Ivo Nadvornik (CZE, 1982)

Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (NED, 1973)
Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (NED, 1974)
Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED, 1977)

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP, 1977)
Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrian Devis (ESP, 1979)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Diaz Perez (ESP, 1976)

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL, 1981)
Assistant Referee 1: Pawel Sokolnicki (POL, 1980)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL, 1978)

Referee: Milorad Mazic (SRB, 1973)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristic (SRB, 1974)
Assistant Referee 2: Dalibor Djurdjevic (SRB, 1973)

Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR, 1979)
Assistant Referee 1: Kim Haglund (NOR, 1977)
Assistant Referee 2: Frank Andas (NOR, 1975)

Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA, 1975) / Gianluca Rocchi (ITA, 1973)
Assistant Referee 1: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA, 1973)
Assistant Referee 2: Mauro Tonolini (ITA, 1973)

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (GRE, 1979)
Assistant Referee 1: Polychronis Kostaras (GRE, 1983)
Assistant Referee 2: Lazaros Dimitriadis (GRE, 1982)

Referee: Damir Skomina (SVN, 1976)
Assistant Referee 1: Jure Praprotnik (SVN, 1985)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Vukan (SVN, 1976)

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (POR, 1979)
Assistant Referee 1: Rui Barbosa (POR, 1974)
Assistant Referee 2: Paulo Santos (POR, 1976)

Referee: Clement Turpin (FRA, 1982)
Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA, 1980)
Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA, 1972)

Women Referees (FWWC 2019)


1. Teodora Albon (ROU, 1977)
2. Cristina Dorcioman (ROU, 1974)
3. Stephanie Frappart (FRA, 1983)
4. Gyongyi Gaal (HUN, 1975)
5. Riem Hussein (GER, 1980)
6. Efthalia Mitsi (GRE, 1980)
7. Kateryna Monzul (UKR, 1981)
8. Sara Persson (SWE, 1976)
9. Morag Pirie (SCO, 1975)
10. Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS, 1981)
11. Bibiana Steinhaus (GER, 1979)
12. Olga Zadinova (CZE, 1985)