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UEFA Champions League 2022/2023 – Group Stage (Matchday 1)

6 September 2022
Dinamo Zagreb – Chelsea
Referee: Istvan Kovacs (ROU, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Marinescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Andrei Chivulete (ROU
VAR: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
AVAR: Ovidiu Hațegan (ROU)
Referee Observer: Marian Ružbarsky (SVK)

Borussia Dortmund – FC Copenhagen
Referee: François Letexier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Jeremy Stinat (FRA)
VAR: Willy Delajod (FRA)
AVAR: Jerôme Brisard (FRA)
Referee Observer: Matteo Trefoloni (ITA)

FC Salzburg – AC Milan
Referee: Srdjan Jovanović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Uroš Stojković (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Milan Mihajlović (SRB)
Fourth Official: Novak Simović (SRB)
VAR: Bastian Dankert (GER)
AVAR: Benoît Millot (FRA)
Referee Observer: Bernardino Gonzalez Vazquez (ESP)

Celtic – Real Madrid
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Jonas Erni (SUI)
Fourth Official: Lukas Fähndrich (SUI)
VAR: Fedayi San (SUI)
AVAR: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL)
Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)

Leipzig – Shakhtar Donetsk
Referee: Joao Pinheiro (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bruno Jesus (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Luciano Maia (POR)
Fourth Official: Antonio Nobre (POR)
VAR: Tiago Martins (POR)
AVAR: Guillermo Cuadra Fernandez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP)

Sevilla – Manchester City
Referee: Davide Massa (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Filippo Meli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefano Alassio (ITA)
Fourth Official: Simone Sozza (ITA)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
AVAR: Marco Guida (ITA)
Referee Observer: Stefan Johannesson (SWE)

Paris St. Germain – Juventus
Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Gary Beswick (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Nunn (ENG)
Fourth Official: David Coote (ENG)
VAR: Marco Fritz (GER)
AVAR: Christian Dingert (GER)
Referee Observer: Francesco Bianchi (SUI)

Benfica – Maccabi Haifa
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehmet Culum (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Niklas Nyberg (SWE)
Fourth Official: Fredrik Klitte (SWE)
VAR: Dennis Higler (NED)
AVAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Referee Observer: Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP)

7 September 2022
Ajax – Rangers
Referee: Tobias Stieler (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Gittelmann (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Eduard Beitinger (GER)
Fourth Official: Matthias Jöllenbeck (GER)
VAR: Christian Dingert (GER)
AVAR: Marco Fritz (GER)
Referee Observer: Itchko Lozev (BUL)

Eintracht Frankfurt – Sporting CP
Referee: Orel Grinfeeld (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Roy Hassan (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Idan Yarkoni (ISR)
Fourth Official: Gal Leibovitz (ISR)
VAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)
AVAR: Dennis Higler (NED)
Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)

SSC Napoli – Liverpool
Referee: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrian Devis (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Guadalupe Porras Ayuso (ESP)
Fourth Official: Cesar Soto Grado (ESP)
VAR: Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (ESP)
AVAR: Xavier Estrada Fernandez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Stavros Tritsonis (GRE)

Atletico Madrid – Porto
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Pawel Sokolnicki (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Fourth Official: Pawel Raczkowski (POL)
VAR: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL)
AVAR: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Referee Observer: Elmir Pilav (BIH)

Club Brugge – Bayer Leverkusen
Referee: Irfan Peljto (BIH)
Assistant Referee 1: Senad Ibrisimbegović (BIH)
Assistant Referee 2: Davor Beljo (BIH)
Fourth Official: Miloš Gigovic (BIH)
VAR: Marco Guida (ITA)
AVAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
Referee Observer: Markus Nobs (SUI)

Barcelona – Viktoria Plzen
Referee: Lawrence Visser (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Rien Vanyzere (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Thibaud Nijssen (BEL)
Fourth Official: Bram Van Driessche (BEL)
VAR: Benoît Millot (FRA)
AVAR: Tiago Martins (POR)
Referee Observer: Emil Bozinovski (MKD)

Inter Milano – Bayern München
Referee: Clement Turpin (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA)
Fourth Official: Ruddy Buquet (FRA)
VAR: Jerôme Brisard (FRA)
AVAR: Willy Delajod (FRA)
Referee Observer: Sokol Jareci (ALB)

Tottenham Hotspur – Olympique Marseille
Referee: Slavko Vinčić (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomaž Klančnik (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Andraž Kovačič (SVN)
Fourth Official: Matej Jug (SVN)
VAR: Bastian Dankert (GER)
AVAR: Fedayi San (SUI)
Referee Observer: Gylfi Orrason (ISL)