IFFHS World’s Best Woman Referee 2019: Frappart (FRA)

90 experts and journalists from all continents crowned Stephanie Frappart to the World’s Best Woman Referee 2019 in the Annual IFFHS Awards. The French referee, already at the third place last year, succeeds to the four-time winner Bibiana Steinhaus from Germany, leaving a huge gap to the Russian Anastasia Pustovoitova, the other revelation of the year at the second place. At 35, Frappart stepped in a new area. She was the first French woman to referee a men’s Ligue 2 match in 2014, then a men’s Ligue 1 match in April 2019 and the first woman in Europe to whistle the UEFA Super Cup Final between FC Chelsea and FC Liverpool in August 2019. One month before, in July 2019, she was the referee of the Women World Cup Final between the USA and Netherlands in Lyon. What a year for Stephanie Frappart, crowned by IFFHS The Best Referee of the World Cup in July and the World’s Best Referee of the Year. (Source: IFFHS)

IFFHS World’s Best Women Referees 2019       
1. Stephanie Frappart (FRA, photo) 233 p

2. Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS) 93 p

3. Bibiana Steinhaus (GER) 75 p
4. Edina Alves (BRA) 45 p
5. Sara Persson (SWE) 35 p
6. Kateryna Monzul (UKR) 20 p
7. Riem Hussein (GER) 17 p
8. Esther Staubli (SUI) 15 p
9. Claudia Umpierrez (URU) 15 p
10. Katalin Kulcsar (HUN) 9 p
11. Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (CAN) 8 p
12. Jana Adamkova (CZE) 6 p
13. Virginia Calderas (VEN) 3 p
14. Lina Lehtovaara (FIN) 3 p
15. Sian Massey-Ellis (ENG) 2 p
16. Lucila Venegas (MEX) 2 p
17. Salome Di Iorio (ARG) 1 p
18. Kate Jacewicz (AUS) 1 p
19. Anna-Marie Keighley (NZL) 1 p
20. Ekaterina Koroleva (USA) 1 p
21. Gladys Lengwe (ZAM) 1 p