The UEFA Referees Committee eliminated the Third Category and approved the new referee categories for the second half of the season 2021/2022. The changes take effect on 1 January 2022.
Men
Retired from Elite: Felix Brych (GER), Damir Skomina (SVN).
Promoted from First Category to Elite: Jose Sanchez Martinez (ESP), Francois Letexier (FRA), Daniel Siebert (GER, photo), Davide Massa (ITA), Serdar Gözübüyük (NED), Srdjan Jovanovic (SRB), Sandro Schärer (SUI), Halil Meler (TUR).
Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Enea Jorgji (ALB), Julian Weinberger (AUT), Erik Lambrechts (BEL), Duje Strukan (CRO), Ricardo De Burgos Bengoechea (ESP), Giorgi Kruashvili (GEO), Harm Osmers (GER), Sascha Stegemann (GER), Marco Di Bello (ITA), Espen Eskas (NOR), Joao Pinheiro (POR), Horatiu Fesnic (ROU), Nicholas Walsh (SCO), Filip Glova (SVK), Rade Obrenovic (SVN), Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE).
Retired from Second and Third Categories: Timotheos Christofi (CYP), Petr Ardeleanu (CZE), Pavel Rejzek (CZE), Miroslav Zelinka (CZE), Jens Maae (DEN), Frank Schneider (FRA), Marco Fritz (GER), Emmanouil Skoulas (GRE), Athanasios Tzilos (GRE), Daniele Doveri (ITA), Paolo Valeri (ITA), Furkat Atazhanov (KAZ), Arman Ismuratov (KAZ), Milovan Milacic (MNE), Mileta Scepanović (MNE), Keith Kennedy (NIR), Luca Barbeno (SMR), Milos Djordjic (SRB), Erik Gemzicky (SVK), Alain Bieri (SUI), Adrien Jaccottet (SUI), Yaroslav Kozyk (UKR).
New FIFA referees entered into Second Category: Chrysovalantis Theouli (CYP), Tomaš Klíma (CZE), Jan Machalek (CZE), Jan Petrik (CZE), Jakob Sundberg (DEN), Darren England (ENG), Sven Jablonski (GER), Daniel Schlager (GER), Stefanos Koumparakis (GRE), Evangelos Manouchos (GRE), Daniele Chiffi (ITA), Luca Pairetto (ITA), Sayat Karabaev (KAZ), Bulat Sariev (KAZ), Miloš Bošković (MNE), Miloš Savovic (MNE), Joey Kooij (NED), Sander van der Eijk (NED), Tim Marschall (NIR), Damian Sylwestrzak (POL), Miguel Nogueira (POR), Evgeni Kukuliak (RUS), Luca Zani (SMR), Nenad Minakovic (SRB), Martin Dohal (SVK), David Šmajc (SVN), Cesar Soto Grado (ESP), Luca Cibelli (SUI), Alessandro Dudic (SUI), Zorbay Küçük (TUR), Oleksiy Derevinskyi (UKR).
Women
Retired from Elite: Bibiana Steinhaus (GER), Pernilla Larsson (SWE).
Promoted to Elite: Ivana Projkovska (MKD), Monika Mularczyk (POL), Iuliana Demetrescu (ROU).
Retired from First Category: Marta Frias Acedo (ESP), Petra Pavlikova (SVK).
Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Galiya Echeva (BUL), Sabina Bolic (CRO), Jelena Pejkovic (CRO), Lucie Sulcova (CZE), Maria Martinez Madrona (ESP), Reelika Turi (EST), Victoria Beyer (FRA), Angelika Soeder (GER), Karoline Wacker (GER), Rasa Grigone (LTU), Justina Lavrenovaite-Perez (LTU), Viola Raudzina (LVA), Vivian Peeters (NED), Lizzy van der Helm (NED), Catarina Campos (POR), Jelena Cvetkovic (SRB), Simona Ghisletta (SUI), Zuzana Valentova (SVK), Aleksandra Cesen (SVN), Tanja Subotic (SVN),
Promoted from Third Category to First Category: Veronika Kovarova (CZE), Abigail Byrne (ENG), Victoria Beyer (FRA), Katalin Sipos (HUN), Maria Ferrieri Caputi (ITA), Katarzyna Lisiecka-Sek (POL), Alina Pesu (ROU), Jelena Medjedović (SRB), Marina Živković (SRB), Ainara Acevedo Dudley (ESP).
Retired from Second Category: Yuliya Gurbanova (AZE), Lois Otte (BEL), Alena Kanaplianikava (BLR), Alexandra Deligianni (GRE), Paula Brady (IRL), Valentina Finzi (ITA), Natalia Clipca (MDA).
New FIFA referees entered into Second Category: Mirela Cemeri (ALB), Maria Ennsgraber (AUT), Maryia Buiko (BLR), Caroline Lanssens (BEL), Lisa Benn (ENG), Olatz Rivera Olmedo (ESP), Fabienne Michel (GER), Anastasia Mylopoulou (GRE), Deborah Bianchi (ITA), Silvia Gasperotti (ITA), Martina Molinaro (ITA), Claire Purcell (IRL), Maria Krcova (SVK).
Futsal
Retired from Elite: Ivan Shabanov (RUS).
Promoted to Elite: Vedran Babic (CRO), David Nissen (DEN), David Urdanoz Apezteguia (ESP), Grigori Osomkov (EST), Nicola Manzione (ITA), Chiara Perona (ITA), Cristiano Santos (POR), Irina Velikanova (RUS), Ales Mocnik (SVN), David Schaerli (SUI).
Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Volha Pauliuts (BLR), Yiangos Yiangou (CYP), Pablo Delgado Sastre (ESP), Javier Moreno Reina (ESP), Norbert Szilagyi (HUN), Giulio Colombin (ITA), Dario Pezzuto (ITA), Aslan Galayev (KAZ), Stephen Vella (MLT), Lars Van Leeuwen (NED), Telmen Undrakh (NOR), Damian Grabowski (POL), Ruben Santos (POR), Filipe Duarte (POR), Daniele D’Adamo (SMR), Rastislav Behancin (SVK), Dejan Veselic (SVN), Ugur Cakmak (TUR), Denys Kutsyi (UKR).
Retired from Second and Third Categories: Franziska Bruckner (GER), Ingo Heemsoth (GER), Adrian Tschopp (SUI).
New FIFA referees entered into Second Category: Maria Tuomi (FIN), Maximilian Alkofer (GER), Zyl Sheriff (GIB), Mariia Glekova (ISR), Giovanni Zannola (ITA), Dominykas Norkus (LTU), Monica Czudzinovicz (POL), Vitali Groshev (RUS), Darko Boskovic (SUI), Doroteja Music (SVN), Mariia Myslovska (UKR).
