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International Friendly Matches

May - June 2018

Saudi Arabia – Greece
Referee: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Yuste Jimenez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Alonso Fernandez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP)

Kuwait – Egypt
Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Octavian Sovre (ROU)
Fourth Official: Ali Hasan Shaban (KUW)

Cameroon – Burkina Faso
Referee: Benoit Millot (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: David Mateus (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: Tom Hansen (LUX)
Fourth Official: Mehdi Mokhtari (FRA)

France – Ireland
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Martin Margaritov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Nikola Popov (BUL)

Portugal – Tunisia

Referee: Luca Banti (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Filippo Meli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Costanzo (ITA)
Fourth Official: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
VAR: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
AVAR: Gianluca Vuoto (ITA)

Italy – Saudi Arabia
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Fourth Official: Remy Zgraggen (SUI)

Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro
Referee: Dimitar Mečkarovski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 1: Dejan Nedelkoski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 2: Goce Petreski (MKD)
Fourth Official: Dejan Jakimovski (MKD)

Mexico – Wales
Referee: Armando Villarreal (USA)
Assistant Referee 1: Charles Morgante (USA)
Assistant Referee 2: Eduardo Mariscal (USA)
Fourth Official: Ismail Elfath (USA)

Turkey – Iran
Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (UZB)
Assistant Referee 1: Ruslan Serazitdinov (UZB)
Assistant Referee 2: Alisher Usmanov (UZB)
Fourth Official: Hüseyin Göçek (TUR)

Malta – Armenia
Referee: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Steinacher (AUT)
Fourth Official: Alexander Harkam (AUT)

Albania – Kosovo

Referee: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Jean-Yves Wicht (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Alain Heiniger (SUI)
Fourth Official: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)

Peru – Scotland
Referee: Fernando Guerrero (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: Alberto Morín (MEX)
Assistant Referee 2: Pablo Hernández (MEX) 

Fourth Official: Michael Espinoza (PER)

Panama – Northern Ireland
Referee: Henry Bejarano (CRC)
Assistant Referee 1: Carlos Fernández (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: Osvaldo Luna (CRC)
Fourth Official: Hugo Cruz (CRC)

Argentina – Haiti
Referee: Arnaldo Samaniego (PAR)
Assistant Referee 1: Rodney Aquino (PAR)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Canete (PAR)

Azerbaijan – Kyrgyzstan
Referee: Ali Palabıyık (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Serkan Olguncan (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: İbrahim Uyarcan (TUR)
Fourth Official: Alper Ulusoy (TUR)

Austria – Russia
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Mario Diks (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Hessel Steegstra (NED)
Fourth Official: Kevin Blom (NED)

Estonia – Lithuania
Referee: Andris Treimanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonnikovs (LVA)
Fourth Official: Neeme Neemlaid (EST)

Japan – Ghana
Referee: Christopher Beat (AUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Matthew Cream (AUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Owen Goldrick (AUS)
Fourth Official: Jumpei Iida (JPN)
VAR: Craig Zetter (AUS)
AVAR: Luke Brennan (AUS)

Chile – Romania
Referee: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Rigler (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Fourth Official: Christian Ciochirca (AUT)

Moldova – Congo
Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Markus Gutschi (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Fourth Official: Walter Altmann (AUT)

Luxembourg – Senegal
Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Javier Aguilar Rodríguez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Manuel Fernandes (AND) 

Fourth Official: Luis Teixeira (AND)

Morocco – Ukraine
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Zürcher (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Vital Jobin (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)

France – Italy
Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Nunn (ENG)
Fourth Official: Craig Pawson (ENG)
VAR: Neil Swarbrick (ENG)
AVAR: Michael McDonough (ENG)

Egypt – Colombia
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Luca Banti (ITA)

Slovakia – Netherlands
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marcin Boniek (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Dawid Golis (POL)
Fourth Official: Peter Kralovic (SVK)

Australia – Czech Republic
Referee: Alexander Harkam (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Witschnigg (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Steinacher (AUT)
Fourth Official: Harald Lechner (AUT)

Malta – Georgia
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Kühr (AUT)

Fourth Official: Christopher Jäger (AUT)

Korea – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Referee: Peter Green (AUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Ashley Beecham (AUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Ryan Gallagher (AUS)

Turkey – Tunisia
Referee: Fedayi San (SUI)

Assistant Referee 1: Alain Heiniger (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan Köbeli (SUI)
Fourth Official: Stephane De Almeida (SUI)

Belgium – Portugal
Referee: Viktor Kassai (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: István Albert (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Theodoros Georgiou (HUN)
Fourth Official: Ferenc Karakó (HUN)

Austria – Germany
Referee: Pavel Královec (CZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Ivo Nádvorník (CZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Kamil Hájek (CZE)
Fourth Official: Petr Ardeleánu (CZE)

Sweden – Denmark
Referee: Tobias Stieler (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mike Pickel (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan Seidel (GER)
Fourth Official: Christian Dingert (GER)

England – Nigeria
Referee: Marco Guida (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Riccardo Di Fiore (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Giallatini (ITA)
Fourth Official: Davide Massa (ITA)
VAR: Michael Fabbri (ITA)
AVAR: Giulio Dobosz (ITA)

Iceland – Norway
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mathias Klasenius (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Wärnmark (SWE)
Fourth Official: Vilhjalmur Thorarinsson (ISL)

Latvia – Estonia
Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (LTU)

Assistant Referee 1: Aleksandr Radius (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Vladimir Gerasimov (LTU)
Fourth Official: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (LVA)

Montenegro – Slovenia
Referee: Igor Pajаć (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Ivica Modrić (CRO)

Assistant Referee 2: Bojan Zobenica (CRO)
Fourth Official: Jovan Kaludjerović (MNE)

Ireland – USA

Referee: Andrew Dallas (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Sean Carr (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Jordan Stokoe (SCO)
Fourth Official: Robert Hennessy (IRL)

Albania – Ukraine
Referee: François Letexier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Raffael Zeder (SUI)
Fourth Official: Salem El Hadj (FRA)

Brazil – Croatia
Referee: Michael Oliver (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt (ENG)

Assistant Referee 2: Simon Bennett (ENG)
Fourth Official: Paul Tierney (ENG)

Costa Rica – Northern Ireland

Referee: Fernando Guerrero (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: Alberto Morin (MEX)
Assistant Referee 2: Mario Lopez (MEX)
Fourth Official: Juan Calderon (CRC)

Mexico – Scotland
Referee: Henry Bejarano (CRC)
Assistant Referee 1: Carlos Fernandez (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: William Arrieta (CRC)
Fourth Official: Oscar Macias (MEX)

Honduras – El Salvador
Referee: Ted Unkel (USA)
Assistant Referee 1: Charles Morgante (USA)
Assistant Referee 2: Apolinar Mariscal (USA)
Fourth Official: Armando Villarreal (USA)

Spain – Switzerland
Referee: István Kovács (ROU)

Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Marinescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Vladimir Urzica (ROU)
Fourth Official: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)

Kosovo – Cote d’Ivoire
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Vital Jobin (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Fourth Official: Lionel Tschudi (SUI)

Saudi Arabia – Peru
Referee: Fedayi San (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Remy Zgraggen (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Sladan Josipovic (SUI)
Fourth Official: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)

Italy – Netherlands
Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Valeri Danchenko (RUS)

Fourth Official: Marco Di Bello (ITA)

Andorra – Cape Verde
Referee: Fabio Costa Verissimo (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Ricardo Ferreira (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Rui Teixeira (POR)
Fourth Official: Joao Capela (POR)

Congo – Malta

Referee: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Riedel (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Fourth Official: Oliver Drachta (AUT)

Moldova – Armenia
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Rigler (AUT)
Fourth Official: Andreas Heiss (AUT)

Serbia – Chile
Referee: Alexander Harkam (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Witschnigg (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Kühr (AUT)
Fourth Official: Christian Ciochirca (AUT)

Slovakia – Morocco
Referee: Lionel Tschudi (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Raffael Zeder (SUI) 

Assistant Referee 2: Jean-Yves Wicht (SUI)
Fourth Official: Stephane De Almeida (SUI)

Romania – Finland

Referee: Robert Harvey (IRL)
Assistant Referee 1: Wayne McDonnell (IRL)
Assistant Referee 2: Mark Gavin (IRL)
Fourth Official: Marius Avram (ROU)

Luxembourg – Georgia
Referee: Iwan Griffith (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: Gareth Jones (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: Ian Bird (WAL)

Fourth Official: Christophe Pires (LUX)

Kazakhstan – Azerbaijan
Referee: Alexandru Tean (MDA)
Assistant Referee 1: Andrei Bodean (MDA)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Mardari (MDA)

Fourth Official: Dumitru Muntean (MDA)

Lithuania – Latvia
Referee: Kristo Tohver (EST)
Assistant Referee 1: Silver Koiv (EST)
Assistant Referee 2: Aron Härsing (EST)
Fourth Official: Donatas Simėnas (LTU)

Russia – Turkey

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Șovre (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)

Fourth Official: Alexei Eskov (RUS)

Belarus – Hungary
Referee: Sergei Lapochkin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Viacheslav Semenov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksei Lebedev (RUS)

Belgium – Egypt

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (GRE) 
Assistant Referee 1: Polychronis Kostaras (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Chrysoula Kourompylia (GRE)
Fourth Official: Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE)

Nigeria – Czech Republic
Referee: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Fourth Official: Markus Hameter (AUT)

Norway – Panama
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Dave Goossens (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Joost van Zuilen (NED)

Fourth Official: Pol van Boekel (NED)

Belarus – Hungary
Referee: Sergey Lapochkin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Vyacheslav Semenov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksey Lebedev (RUS)

Andorra – Cape Verde
Referee: Fabio Costa Veríssimo (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Ricardo Ferreira (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Rui Martins (POR)
Fourth Official: João Capela (POR)

England – Costa Rica

Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura (JPN)
Assistant Referee 1: Hiroshi Yamauchi (JPN)
Assistant Referee 2: Jun Mihara (JPN)
Fourth Official: Yusuke Araki (JPN)

Estonia – Morocco
Referee: Marius Avram (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Valentin Avram (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Orbulet (ROU)
Fourth Official: Veiko Motsnik (EST)

Uruguay – Uzbekistan
Referee: Raphael Claus (BRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Danilo Manis (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bruno Pires (BRA)
Fourth Official: Leodan Gonzalez (URU)

Portugal – Algeria
 
Referee: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Ian Hussin (ENG)
Fourth Official: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
VAR: Neil Swarbrick (ENG)
AVAR: Michael McDonough (ENG)

Switzerland – Japan 

Referee: Amaury Delerue (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Guillaume Debart (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bertrand Jouannaud (FRA)

Fourth Official: Sladjan Josipovic (SUI)

Croatia
 Senegal
Referee: Adam Farkas (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Balazs Buzas (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Balazs Szert (HUN)
Fourth Official: Tihomir Pejin (CRO)

Korea – Bolivia

Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Markus Gutschi (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Kühr (AUT)
Fourth Official: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)

Germany – Saudi Arabia
Referee: Slavko Vinčić (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomaž Klančnik (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Grega Kordež (SVN)
Fourth Official: Rade Obrenovič (SVN)

Poland – Chile
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Filippo Meli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Daniel Stefanski (POL)
VAR: Marco Di Bello (ITA)

AVAR: Sergio Ranghetti (ITA)

Iran – Lithuania
Referee: Alexei Eskov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Dmitri Mosyakin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Igor Demeshko (RUS)

Israel – Argentina

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Ángel Nevado Rodríguez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Juan Yuste Jiménez (ESP)

Serbia – Bolivia
Referee: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Riedel (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)

Fourth Official: Gerhard Grobelnik (AUT)

Iran 
 Lithuania
Referee: Alexei Eskov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Dmitri Mosyakin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Igor Demeshko (RUS)

Finland – Belarus

Referee: Alain Durieux (LUX)
Assistant Referee 1: Claude Ries (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: David Mateus (LUX)

Fourth Official: Christophe Pires (LUX)

France – USA
Referee: William Collum (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: David McGeachie (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Graeme Stewart (SCO)
Fourth Official: Donald Robertson (SCO)

Sweden – Peru
Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Kim Haglund (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Magnus Lundberg (NOR)
Fourth Official: Ola Hobber Nilsen (NOR)

Latvia – Azerbaijan
Referee: Dzianis Shcharbakou (BLR)

Assistant Referee 1: Yuri Khomchanka (BLR)
Assistant Referee 2: Andrei Hetsikau (BLR)

Fourth Official: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (LVA)

Hungary – Australia
Referee: Matej Jug (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Manuel Vidali (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomislav Pospeh (SVN)
Fourth Official: Nejc Kajtazovič (SVN)

Spain – Tunisia 
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan de Vries (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Charles Schaap (NED)
Fourth Official: Kevin Blom (NED)
VAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)
AVAR: Siemen Mulder (NED)

Austria – Brazil
Referee: Viktor Kassai (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Oszkar Lemon (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Zsolt Varga (HUN)
Fourth Official: Sandor Ando-Szabo (HUN)

Belgium – Costa Rica
Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Șovre (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)
Fourth Official: Radu Petrescu (ROU)

Korea – Senegal
Referee: Harald Lechner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Fourth Official: Julian Weinberger (AUT)

Japan – Paraguay
Referee: Oliver Drachta (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Rigler (AUT)
Fourth Official: Robert Schörgenhofer (AUT)

Poland – Lithuania
Referee: Kevin Blom (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Rob van de Ven (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan de Vries (NED)
Fourth Official: Paweł Raczkowski (POL)
VAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)
AVAR: Jeroen Manschot (NED)