The UEFA Referees Committee approved the referee categories for the second half of the season 2018/2019. Carlos Del Cerro Grande (men) and Ivana Martincic (women) have been promoted to Elite, effective 1 January 2019.
Men
Promoted from First Category to Elite: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP, photo).
Retired/removed from First Category: Sebastien Delferiere (BEL), Manuel Gräfe (GER), Luca Banti (ITA), Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA).
Retired/removed from Second Category: Oliver Drachta (AUT), Bart Vertenten (BEL), Leóntios Tráttou (CYP), Robert Madley (ENG), Charalampos Kalogeropoulos (GRE), Carlos Taborda Xistra (POR), Simon Lee Evans (WAL).
New FIFA referees entered into Second Category: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG), Jose Munuera Montero (ESP), Sascha Stegemann (GER), Michael Fabbri (ITA), Maurizio Mariani (ITA).
Retired/removed from Third Category: Omer Pasayev (AZE), Dimítris Masiás (CYP), Radek Příhoda (CZE), Anders Poulsen (DEN), Jari Järvinen (FIN), Aléxandros Aretopoulos (GRE), Stavros Mantalos (GRE), Sándor Ando-Szabo (HUN), Thoroddur Hjaltalín (ISL), Aleksandr Aliyev (KAZ), George Găman (ROU), Mikhail Vilkov (RUS), Bojan Nikolić (SRB), Alper Ulusoy (TUR).
New FIFA referees entered into Third Category: Sebastian Gishamer (AUT), Bram Van Driessche (BEL), Nathan Verboomen (BEL), Dragan Petrovic (BIH), Nikolas Neokleous (CYP), Loukas Sotiríou (CYP), Ondrej Pechanec (CZE), Morten Krogh (DEN), Kaarlo Hämäläinen (FIN), Irakli Kvirikashvili (GEO), Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (GRE), Emmanouíl Skoulas (GRE), Athanasios Tzílos (GRE), Balazs Berke (HUN), Rauf Jabarov (AZE), Helgi Jonasson (ISL), Gal Leibovitz (ISR), Arman Ismuratov (KAZ), Matthew De Gabriele (MLT), Antonio Nobre (POR), Marcel Bîrsan (ROU), Vladimir Moskalev (RUS), Miloš Djordjić (SRB), Kaspar Sjöberg (SWE), Ümit Öztürk (TUR), Mykola Kryvonosov (UKR), Robert Jenkins (WAL).
Women
Retired/removed from Elite: Gyöngyi Gaal (HUN), Carina Vitulano (ITA).
Promoted from First Category to Elite: Ivana Martincic (CRO).
Retired/removed from First Category: Sofia Karagiorgi (CYP), Marte Soro (NOR).
Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Eleni Antoniou (GRE), Rebecca Welch (ENG), Tess Olofsson (SWE).
Retired/removed from Second Category: Julia Baier (AUT), Karolina Tokarska (POL).
New FIFA referees entered in Third Category: Emanuela Rusta (ALB), Marina Aufschnaiter (AUS), Viki De Cremer (BEL), Ioanna Allaylotou (CYP), Abigail Byrne (ENG), Zulema Gonzalez Gonzalez (ESP), Minna Maenpaa (FIN), Katalin Sipos (HUN), Maria Ferrieri Caputi (ITA), Tatyana Sorokopudova (KAZ), Sarah Zangeneh (NOR), Michalina Diakow (POL), Marina Krupskaya (RUS), Jelena Cvetkovic (SRB), Michele Schmolzer (SUI).
Futsal
Retired from Elite: Bogdan Sorescu (ROU).
Retired from First Category: Nuno Bogalho (POR), Swen Eichler (GER).
Retired/removed from Second Category: Elchin Samadli (AZE), Andrej Topic (CRO), Aleksandras Sliva (LTU), Ruben Pinto (POR).
Retired/removed from Third Category: Zoran Sofrenic (BIH), Jan Kliner (CZE), Toni Lehtinen (FIN), Zyl Sheriff (GIB), Adalbjorn Thorsteinsson (ISL), Oren Simanian (ISR), Olzhas Abrayev (KAZ), Matthew Vella (MLT), Katarzyna Netkowska (POL), Andrzej Witkowski (POL), Tadija Stantic (SRB), Dejan Veselic (SVN), Sabit Selvi (TUR).
New FIFA referees entered into Third Category: Mihran Kudoyan (ARM), Farik Keco (BIH), Volha Pauliuts (BLR), Josip Dujmic (CRO), Radim Cep (CZE), Martin Koster (DEN), Jagnar Jakobson (EST), Christian Gundler (GER), Panagiotis Ntalas (GRE), Annamaria Tolnay (HUN), Aslan Galayev (KAZ), Turekhan Tursumbayev (AZE), Ekrem Franca (KVX), Mantas Pomeckis (LTU), Done Ristovski (MKD), David Balzan (MLT), Clinton Cassar (MLT), Damian Grabowski (POL), Bogdan Hanceariuc (ROU), Djordje Petrovic (SRB).
