UEFA Euro 2016 Referees

The UEFA Referees Committee has appointed the 18 referees who will take charge of the 51 matches at UEFA Euro 2016.

The list of referees who have been selected:

1. Martin Atkinson (ENG, 1971)

2. Felix Brych (GER, 1975)

3. Cüneyt Cakir (TUR, 1976)

4. Mark Clattenburg (ENG, 1975)

5. William Collum (SCO, 1979)

6. Jonas Eriksson (SWE, 1974)

7. Ovidiu Hategan (ROU, 1980)

8. Sergei Karasev (RUS, 1979)

9. Viktor Kassai (HUN, 1975)

10. Pavel Kralovec (CZE, 1977)

11. Björn Kuipers (NED, 1973)

12. Szymon Marciniak (POL, 1981)

13. Milorad Mažić (SRB, 1973)

14. Svein Moen (NOR, 1979)

15. Nicola Rizzoli (ITA, 1971, photo)

16. Damir Skomina (SVN, 1976)

17. Clement Turpin (FRA, 1982)

18. Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP, 1971)

As at UEFA Euro 2012 and in the European Qualifiers for UEFA Euro 2016, the referees will have added support through the deployment of additional assistant referees. Each refereeing team will consist of a referee, two assistant referees and two additional assistant referees. The majority of assistants and additional assistants will come from the same country as the referee. A third assistant referee will also be appointed and will stay on standby until the start of the tournament. The full referee teams will be announced in February 2016.

The preparation of the referees for UEFA Euro 2016 will include various courses and training activities, including:

• 26–28 January 2016 – UEFA assistant referee course in Cyprus.

• 1–5 February 2016 – UEFA's annual winter course with all UEFA Elite group referees, including the UEFA EURO 2016 referees. The referees will receive technical instructions, as well as physical training plans to follow until the final tournament.

• 18–22 April 2016 – UEFA Euro 2016 preparatory referee course in France. The referee 'quintets' will train together and undergo fitness tests and review the application of the technical instructions they have received.

The referee teams will arrive in France on 6 June 2016 for the final tournament.

Source: UEFA

UEFA Referee Categories 2016

Men

Elite

Martin Atkinson (ENG), Deniz Aytekin (GER), Ivan Bebek (CRO), Felix Brych (GER), Cüneyt Cakir (TUR), Mark Clattenburg (ENG), William Collum (SCO), Jonas Eriksson (SWE), David Fernandez Borbalan (ESP), Ovidiu Hategan (ROU), Sergei Karasev (RUS), Viktor Kassai (HUN), Pavel Kralovec (CZE), Björn Kuipers (NED), Szymon Marciniak (POL), Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP), Milorad Mažić (SRB), Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR), Bas Nijhuis (NED), Daniele Orsato (ITA), Nicola Rizzoli (ITA), Gianluca Rocchi (ITA), Anastasios Sidiropoulos (GRE), Damir Skomina (SVN), Paolo Tagliavento (ITA), Craig Thomson (SCO), Clement Turpin (FRA), Alberto Undiano Mallenco (ESP), Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP).

First Category

Ievgenii Aranovskyi (UKR), Luca Banti (ITA), Benoît Bastien (FRA), John Beaton (SCO), Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS), Kevin Blom (NED), Tamas Bognar (HUN), Sergii Boiko (UKR), Ruddy Buquet (FRA), Tony Chapron (FRA), Sebastien Delferiere (BEL), Oliver Drachta (AUT), Aleksei Eskov (RUS), Javier Estrada Fernandez (ESP), Simon Evans (WAL), Mattias Gestranius (FIN), Pawel Gil (POL), Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP), Hüseyin Göcek (TUR), Serdar Gözübüyük (NED), Manuel Gräfe (GER), Serge Gumienny (BEL), Arnold Hunter (NIR), Stefan Johannesson (SWE), Matej Jug (SVN), Jakob Kehlet (DEN), Istvan Kovacs (ROU), Ivan Kruzliak (SVK), Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR), Harald Lechner (AUT), Liran Liany (ISR), Robert Madden (SCO), Danny Makkelie (NED), Andre Marriner (ENG), Gediminas Mazeika (LTU), Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA), Michael Oliver (ENG), Halis Özkahya (TUR), Clayton Pisani (MLT), Pawel Raczkowski (POL), Robert Schörgenhofer (AUT), Artur Soares Dias (POR), Manuel De Sousa (POR), Aleksandar Stavrev (MKD), Tobias Stieler (GER), Marijo Strahonja (CRO), Martin Strömbergsson (SWE), Anthony Taylor (ENG), Alexandru Tudor (ROU), Istvan Vad (HUN), Slavko Vinčič (SVN), Tobias Welz (GER), Alon Yefet (ISR), Miroslav Zelinka (CZE), Felix Zwayer (GER).

Second Category
Anatoliy Abdula (UKR), Aliyar Aghayev (AZE), Thorvaldur Arnason (ISL), Marius Avram (ROU), Cristian Balaj (ROU), Alain Bieri (SUI), Marcin Borski (POL), Alexandre Boucaut (BEL), Kevin Clancy (SCO), Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP), Sebastian Coltescu (ROU), Nikola Dabanović (MNE), Andrew Dallas (SCO), Antonio Damato (ITA), Bastian Dankert (GER), Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP), Amaury Delerue (FRA), Christian Dingert (GER), Neil Doyle (IRL), Svein-Erik Edvartsen (NOR), Andreas Ekberg (SWE), Fredy Fautrel (FRA), Bartosz Frankowski (POL), Marco Fritz (GER), Antony Gautier (FRA), Vlado Glodović (SRB), Orel Grinfeeld (ISR), Marco Guida (ITA), Tore Hansen (NOR), Alexander Harkam (AUT), Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (ESP), Sergei Ivanov (RUS), Adrien Jaccottet (SUI), Ken Henry Johnsen (NOR), Enea Jorgji (ALB), Georgi Kabakov (BUL), Mete Kalkavan (TUR), Charalampos Kalogeropoulos (GRE), Stephan Klossner (SUI), Artyom Kuchin (KAZ), Sergei Lapochkin (RUS), Jonathan Lardot (BEL), Richard Liesveld (NED), Robert Madley (ENG), Juan Martinez Munuera (ESP), Davide Massa (ITA), Dimitar Meckarovski (MKD), Vitaly Meshkov (RUS), Steven McLean (SCO), Hugo Miguel (POR), Benoît Millot (FRA), Antti Munukka (FIN), Ville Nevalainen (FIN), Christos Nicolaides (CYP), Aleksei Nikolaev (RUS), Ali Palabiyik (TUR), Bojan Pandzić (SWE), Craig Pawson (ENG), Radu Petrescu (ROU), Nikola Popov (BUL), Lee Probert (ENG), Pavle Radovanović (MNE), Nicolas Rainville (FRA), Roi Reinshreiber (ISR), Alan Sant (MLT), Sandro Schärer (SUI), Frank Schneider (FRA), Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT), Eitan Shmuelevitz (ISR), Daniel Siebert (GER), Daniel Stefanski (POL), Ivaylo Stoyanov (BUL), Padraigh Sutton (IRL), Stanislav Todorov (BUL), Kristo Tohver (EST), Leontios Trattou (CYP), Andris Treimanis (LVA), Siarhei Tsynkevich (BLR), Michael Tykgaard (DEN), Paolo Valeri (ITA), Ognjen Valjić (BIH), Pol van Boekel (NED), Bart Vertenten (BEL), Ante Vucemilović-Simunović (CRO), Carlos Taborda Xistra (POR), Anatolii Zhabchenko (UKR).

Third Category
Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE), Alexandr Aliyev (KAZ), Sascha Amhof (SUI), Sandor Ando-Szabo (HUN), Dennis Antamo (FIN), Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (LVA), Petr Ardeleanu (CZE), Alexandros Aretopoulos (GRE), Suren Baliyan (ARM), Veaceslav Banari (MDA), Sven Bindels (LUX), Deniz Bitnel (TUR), Jörgen Burchardt (DEN), Johnny Casanova (SMR), Fabio Costa Verissimo (POR), Raymond Crangle (NIR), Andrew Davey (NIR), Oleksandr Derdo (UKR), Vasilis Dimitriou (CYP), Nenad Djokić (SRB), Alain Durieux (LUX), Adam Farkas (HUN), Trustin Farrugia (MLT), Juri Frischer (EST), Aleksander Gauzer (KAZ), Filip Glova (SVK), Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA), Sergio Grade Piscarreta (POR), Danilo Grujić (SRB), Dag Vidar Hafsas (NOR), Markus Hameter (AUT), Nikolaj Hänni (SUI), Robert Harvey (IRL), Rahim Hasanov (AZE), Thoroddur Hjaltalin (ISL), Zaven Hovhannisyan (ARM), Dejan Jakimovski (MKD), Edin Jakupović (BIH), Jari Järvinen (FIN), Lorenc Jemini (ALB), Gunnar Jonsson (ISL), Srdjan Jovanović (SRB), Fran Jović (CRO), Jovan Kaludjerović (MNE), Ferenc Karako (HUN), Peter Kjaersgaard (DEN), Georgios Kominis (GRE), Laurent Kopriwa (LUX), Yaroslav Kozyk (UKR), Peter Kralović (SVK), Tvetan Krastev (BUL), Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (DEN), Giorgi Kruashvili (GEO), Georgios Kyzas (GRE), Nicolas Laforge (BEL), Erik Lambrechts (BEL), Kirill Levnikov (RUS), Tiago Lopes Martins (POR), Martin Lundby (NOR), Jens Maae (DEN), Orkhan Mammadov (AZE), Stavros Mantalos (GRE), Boris Marhefka (SVK), Bryn Markham-Jones (WAL), Tim Marshall (NIR), Dimitrios Masias (CYP), Paul McLaughlin (IRL), Yurii Mozharovskyy (UKR), Dumitru Muntean (MDA), Tomasz Musial (POL), Ola Hobber Nilsen (NOR), Glenn Nyberg (SWE), Pavel Orel (CZE), Dominik Ouschan (AUT), Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE), Erez Papir (ISR), Bardhyl Pashaj (ALB), Tihomir Pejin (CRO), Irfan Peljto (BIH), Anders Poulsen (DEN), Radek Prihoda (CZE), Zbynek Proske (CZE), Petur Reinert (FAR), Donatas Rumsas (LTU), Fedayi San (SUI), Joao Santos Capela (POR), Dzianis Shcharbakou (BLR), Lasha Silagava (GEO), Joao Silva Pinheiro (POR), Sergejus Slyva (LTU), Ryan Stewart (WAL), Roomer Tarajev (EST), Alexandru Tean (MDA), Vilhjalmur Thorarinnsson (ISL), Stanislav Todorov (BUL), Alex Troleis (FRO), Alper Ulusoy (TUR), George Vadachkoria (GEO), Mikhail Vilkov (RUS), Ignasi Villamayor (AND), Vladimir Vnuk (SVK), Nikolay Yordanov (BUL), Fyodor Zammit (MLT), Mario Zebec (CRO), Mitja Zganec (SVN).

Women

Elite
Jana Adamkova (CZE), Teodora Albon (ROU), Sandra Braz Bastos (POR), Cristina Dorcioman (ROU), Stephanie Frappart (FRA), Gyöngyi Gaal (HUN), Riem Hussein (GER), Katalin Kulcsar (HUN), Pernilla Larsson (SWE), Efthalia Mitsi (GRE), Kateryna Monzul (UKR), Monika Mularczyk (POL), Sara Persson (SWE), Morag Pirie (SCO), Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS), Esther Staubli (SUI), Bibiana Steinhaus (GER), Carina Vitulano (ITA), Olga Zadinova (CZE).

First Category
Linn Andersson (SWE), Esther Azzopardi (MLT), Vesna Budimir (CRO), Petra Chuda (SVK), Lorraine Clark (SCO), Rhona Daly (IRL), Amy Fearn (ENG), Florence Guillemin (FRA), Kirsi Heikkinen (FIN), Sofia Karagiorgi (CYP), Zuzana Kovacova (SVK), Marija Kurtes (GER), Eleni Lampadariou (GRE), Lina Lehtovaara (FIN), Karolina Radzik-Johan (POL), Sharon Sluyts (BEL), Marte Soro (NOR), Eszter Urban (HUN), Severine Zinck (FRA).

Second Category
Julia-Stefanie Baier (AUT), Sabine Bonnin (FRA), Paula Brady (IRL), Tania Fernandes Morais (LUX), Sarah Garratt (ENG), Marta Frias Acedo (ESP), Simona Ghisletta (SUI), Kseniya Goryacheva (RUS), Knarik Grigoryan (ARM), Gordana Kuzmanovic (SRB), Justina Lavrenovaite (LTU), Ivana Martincic (CRO), Elia Martinez Martinez (ESP), Ana Minic (SRB), Lois Otte (BEL), Vivian Peeters (NED), Barbara Poxhofer (AUT), Ivana Projkovska (MKD), Tanja Subotic (SVN), Zuzana Valentova (SVK), Kateryna Zora (UKR).

Third Category
Eleni Antoniou (GRE), Ewa Augustyn (POL), Nadeshda Belcheva (BUL), Sabina Bolic (CRO), Cristina Bujor (ROU), Charlotte Carpenter (WAL), Aleksandra Cesen (SVN), Iuliana Demetrescu (ROU), Virginie Derouaux (BEL), Galiya Echeva (BUL), Cathrine Eide (NOR), Cheryl Foster (WAL), Michaela Fritz (AUT), Valentina Garoffolo (ITA), Beatriz Gil Gozalo (ESP), Desiree Grundbacher (SUI), Yuliya Gurbanova (AZE), Sabayel Gurbanova (AZE), Liliya Hasanova (KAZ), Frida Klarlund Nielsen (DEN), Dilek Kocbay (TUR), Sibel Kolcak (TUR), Eliska Kralovec-Kramlova (CZE), Ifeoma Kulmala (FIN), Katarzyna Lisiecka-Sek (POL), Jurgita Macikunyte (LTU), Maria Marotta (ITA), Yuliya Medvedeva (KAZ), Dimitrina Milkova (BUL), Neslihan Muratdagi (TUR), Henrikke Nervik (NOR), Elvira Nurmustafina (KAZ), Tess Olofsson (SWE), Vera Onica (MDA), Hannelore Onsea (BEL), Vera Opeikina (RUS), Meliz Ozcigdem (TUR), Svetlana Patras (MDA), Ruzanna Petrosyan (ARM), Graziella Pirriatore (ITA), Alexandra Ponomareva (RUS), Viola Raudzina (LVA), Anastasiya Romanyuk (UKR), Silvia Rosa Domingos (POR), Meitar Shemesh (ISR), Rachel Shkuri (ISR), Ana Soares Aguiar (POR), Angelika Soeder (GER), Nelli Stepanyan (ARM), Sandra Strub (SUI), Liudmyla Telbukh (UKR), Bojana Tosic (BIH), Biljana Trifunovic (SRB), Volha Tsiareshka (BLR), Andromachi Tsiofliki (GRE), Irina Turovskaya (BLR), Irena Velevackoska (MKD), Ivana Vlaic (BIH).

Futsal

Elite
Gerald Bauernfeind (AUT), Marc Birkett (ENG), Ondrej Cerni (CZE), Kamil Cetin (TUR), Eduardo Fernandes Coelho (POR), Tomasz Frak (POL), Fernando Gutierrez Lumbreras (ESP), Oleg Ivanov (UKR), Borislav Kolev (BUL), Gabor Kovacs (HUN), Pascal Lemal (BEL), Alessandro Malfer (ITA), Timo Onatsu (FIN), Cedric Pelissier (FRA), Ivan Shabanov (RUS), Bogdan Sorescu (ROU), Sasa Tomic (CRO), Admir Zahovic (SVN).

First Category
Josip Barton (MKD), Moshe Bohbot (ISR), Gerd Bylois (BEL), Vasileios Christodoulis (GRE), Juan Cordero Gallardo (ESP), Nuno Costa Bogalho (POR), Viacheslav Daragan (UKR), Swen Eichler (GER), Trayan Enchev (BUL), Balazs Farkas (HUN), Angelo Galante (ITA), Gabriel Gherman (ROU), Nikola Jelic (CRO), Vladimir Kadykov (RUS), Antonis Konstantinides (GRE), Costas Nicolaou (CYP), Dejan Nikolic (SVN), Lukas Pesko (SVK), Zdenek Petr (CZE), Elchin Samadli (AZE), Ozan Soykan (TUR), Sebastian Stawicki (POL), Barry Weijers (NED).

Second Category
Ilya Akimtsev (RUS), Victor Berg Audic (FRA), Veljko Boskovic (MNE), Franco Cachia (MLT), Michalis Christofidis (CYP), Daniele Di Resta (ITA), Ibrahim El Jilali (NED), Marian Gal (SVK), Fabio Gelonese (ITA), Hennadii Hora (UKR), Tarik Keco (BIH), Kalin Kinov (BUL), Gregor Kovacic (SVN), Toni Lehtinen (FIN), Robert Lenting (NED), Petar Mantev (MKD), Nicola Manzione (ITA), Alejandro Martinez Flores (ESP), Iuri Neverov (RUS), Fredric Nilholt (SWE), Arsen Nonikashvili (GEO), Peter Nurse (ENG), Miguel Oliveira Castilho (POR), Francisco Pena Diaz (ESP), Ruben Pinto Guerreiro (POR), Patrik Porkert (AUT), Damir Radovic (SRB), Vladan Radulovic (SRB), Vitali Rakutski (BLR), Simon Rogers (IRL), Gavin Sartain (ENG), David Schaerli (SUI), Borut Sivic (SVN), Aleksandras Sliva (LTU), Simon Todorovic (SVN), Andrej Topic (CRO), Sreten Vasic (SRB), Cédric Waroux (BEL), Grigori Zelentsov (RUS).

Third Category
Nikola Aleksic (SRB), Vedran Babic (CRO), Igor Babovic (SWE), Mario Belavy (SVK), Abdallah Benazzi (NED), Guy Berger (ISR), David Berry (IRL), Mario Bohun (SVK), Viktor Bugenko (MDA), Clinton Cassar (MLT), Serhat Celik (TUR), Martin Cilek (CZE), Christos Christou (CYP), Vasilica Ciuplea (WAL), Ovidiu Curta (ROU), Danijel Darandik (GER), Daniel Deca (ROU), Maksim Dzeikala (BLR), Torbjorn Eidhammer (NOR), Kreshnik Hakram (ALB), Khalil Huseyinli (AZE), Farid Islamov (AZE), Damian Jaruchiewicz (POL), Shota Khukhilava (GEO), Kaloyan Kirilov (BUL), Kaspars Kivliss (LVA), Konstantinos Kommatas (GRE), Talgat Kosmukhambetov (KAZ), Konstantinos Koytsogianos (GRE), Jan Kresta (CZE), Ainar Kuusk (EST), Karel Linhart (CZE), Daniel Matkovic (SUI), Marjan Mladenovski (MKD), Kirill Naishouler (FIN), Ramil Namazov (AZE), Olli Niemela (FIN), Yusif Nurullayev (AZE), Grigori Osomkov (EST), Christophe Paitreault (FRA), Inguns Purins (LVA), Igor Puzovic (BIH), Petar Radojcic (SRB), Omar Rafiq (NOR), Gerard Ramirez (AND), Sylvester Rodrigues (NED), Marco Rothenfluh (SUI), Sabit Selvi (TUR), Dragan Skakic (BIH), Zoran Sofrenic (BIH), Norbert Szilagyi (HUN), Adalbjorn Thornsteisson (ISL), Adrian Tschopp (SUI), Robertas Valikonis (LVA), Lars Van Leeuwen (NED), Andri Vigfusson (ISL), Yaroslav Vovchok (UKR), Stefan Vrijens (BEL), Andrzej Witkowski (POL), Yiangos Yiangou (CYP).

FIFA Club World Cup 2015 – Quarter-finals

13 December 2015

Club America – Guangzhou Evergrande
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Mathias Klasenius (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Wärnmark (SWE)
Fourth Official: Alioum Alioum (CMR)
Reserve AR: Evarist Menkouande (CMR)

TP Mazembe – Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Referee: Wilmar Roldan (COL)
Assistant Referee 1: Alexander Guzman (COL)
Assistant Referee 2: Christian De la Cruz (COL)
Fourth Official: Alireza Faghani (IRN)
Reserve AR: Reza Sokhandan (IRN)

UEFA Referees – Promotions and Demotions 2015/2016

Men

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Benoît Bastien (FRA, photo), John Beaton (SCO), Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP), Serdar Gözübüyük (NED), Jakob Kehlet (DEN), Istvan Kovacs (ROU), Pawel Raczkowski (POL), Tobias Stieler (GER).

Retired from First Category: Kenn Hansen (DEN). 

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Cristian Balaj (ROU), Marcin Borski (POL), Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP), Christian Dingert (GER), Steven McLean (SCO), Leontios Trattou (CYP), Pol van Boekel (NED).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Thorvaldur Arnason (ISL), Nikola Dabanović (MNE), Andrew Dallas (SCO), Bartosz Frankowski (POL), Tore Hansen (NOR), Enea Jorgji (ALB), Srdjan Jovanović (SRB), Charalampos Kalogeropoulos (GRE), Ville Nevalainen (FIN), Ali Palabiyik (TUR), Bojan Pandzić (SWE), Nikola Popov (BUL), Roi Reinshreiber (ISR), Sandro Schärer (SUI), Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT), Bart Vertenten (BEL), Anatolii Zhabchenko (UKR). 

Retired from Second Category: Michael Lerjeus (SWE). 

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Stanislav Todorov (BUL). 

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Robert Madley (ENG), Frank Schneider (FRA). 

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Alexandros Aretopoulos (GRE), Veaceslav Banari (MDA), Deniz Bitnel (TUR), Jörgen Burchardt (DEN), Andrew Davey (NIR), Nenad Djokić (SRB), Trustin Farrugia (MLT), Juri Frischer (EST), Filip Glova (SVK), Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA), Sergio Grade Piscarreta (POR), Robert Harvey (IRL), Ferenc Karako (HUN), Peter Kjaersgaard (DEN), Georgios Kominis (GRE), Georgios Kyzas (GRE), Kirill Levnikov (RUS), Martin Lundby (NOR), Stavros Mantalos (GRE), Boris Marhefka (SVK), Glenn Nyberg (SWE), Pavel Orel (CZE), Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE), Donatas Rumsas (LTU), Fedayi San (SUI), Joao Silva Pinheiro (POR), Ryan Stewart (WAL), Alex Troleis (FRO), Alper Ulusoy (TUR), Fyodor Zammit (MLT), Mario Zebec (CRO).

Women

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS), Olga Zadinova (CZE).

Retired from Elite: Silvia Spinelli (ITA).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Vesna Budimir (CRO), Lorraine Clark (SCO).

Retired from First Category: Cristina Babadac-Ionescu (ROU).

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Elia Martinez Martinez (ESP).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Julia-Stefanie Baier (AUT), Sarah Garratt (ENG), Marta Frias Acedo (ESP), Justina Lavrenovaite (LTU), Ivana Martincic (CRO), Lois Otte (BEL), Vivian Peeters (NED), Barbara Poxhofer (AUT), Ivana Projkovska (MKD), Tanja Subotic (SVN).

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Yuliya Medvedeva (KAZ).

Retired from Third Category: Lilach Asulin (ISR), Dilan Gokcek Iscan (TUR), Mihaela Gurdon-Basimamovic (CRO), Kristina Husballe (DEN), Zuzana Strpkova (SVK), Marianne Svendsen (DEN).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Sabina Bolic (CRO), Iuliana Demetrescu (ROU), Cheryl Foster (WAL), Michaela Fritz (AUT), Sibel Kolcak (TUR), Maria Marotta (ITA), Alexandra Ponomareva (RUS), Meitar Shemesh (ISR), Rachel Shkuri (ISR), Andromachi Tsiofliki (GRE).

Futsal

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Kamil Cetin (TUR), Tomasz Frak (POL), Borislav Kolev (BUL), Cedric Pelissier (FRA).

Demoted from Elite to First Category: Sebastian Stawicki (POL).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Josip Barton (MKD), Moshe Bohbot (ISR), Vasileios Christodoulis (GRE), Juan Cordero Gallardo (ESP), Trayan Enchev (BUL), Nikola Jelic (CRO), Vladimir Kadykov (RUS), Costas Nicolaou (CYP), Zdenek Petr (CZE), Elchin Samadli (AZE), Ozan Soykan (TUR), Barry Weijers (NED).

Retired from First Category: Karel Henych (CZE), Danijel Janosevic (CRO).

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Franco Cachia (MLT), Francisco Pena Diaz (ESP), Borut Sivic (SVN).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Victor Berg Audic (FRA), Michalis Christofidis (CYP), Ibrahim El Jilali (NED), Tarik Keco (BIH), Peter Nurse (ENG), Patrik Porkert (AUT), Vladan Radulovic (SRB), Simon Rogers (IRL), David Schaerli (SUI), Simon Todorovic (SVN).

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Daniele Di Resta (ITA), Iuri Neverov (RUS).

Retired from Third Category: Septimiu Burtescu (ROU), Epaminondas Stamoulis (GRE).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Nikola Aleksic (SRB), Vedran Babic (CRO), Mario Belavy (SVK), Clinton Cassar (MLT), Serhat Celik (TUR), Martin Cilek (CZE), Daniel Deca (ROU), Farid Islamov (AZE), Konstantinos Kommatas (GRE), Jan Kresta (CZE), Daniel Matkovic (SUI), Kirill Naishouler (FIN), Grigori Osomkov (EST), Igor Puzovic (BIH), Petar Radojcic (SRB), Omar Rafiq (NOR), Sylvester Rodrigues (NED), Marco Rothenfluh (SUI), Sabit Selvi (TUR), Norbert Szilagyi (HUN), Adalbjorn Thornsteisson (ISL), Lars Van Leeuwen (NED), Yiangos Yiangou (CYP).

FIFA Futsal World Cup 2016 – Main Round (UEFA)

10-13 December 2015

Group 1 (Gyor)
1. Robert Lenting (NED)
2. Dejan Nikolić (SVN)
3. Fredric Nilholt (SWE, photo)
4. Sebastian Stawicki (POL)

Group 2 (Osijek)
1. Gerd Bylois (BEL)
2. Trayan Enchev (BUL)
3. Vladimir Kadykov (RUS)
4. Gábor Kovács (HUN)

Group 3 (Izmir)
1. Nuno Bogalho (POR)
2. Veljko Bošković (MNE)
3. Fernando Gutiérrez Lumbreras (ESP)
4. Andrej Topić (CRO)

Group 4 (Eindhoven)
1. Cédric Pelissier (FRA)
2. Damir Radović (SRB)
3. Saša Tomić (CRO)
4. Elchin Samadli (AZE)

Group 5 (Chomutov)
1. Josip Barton (MKD)
2. Franco Cachia (MLT)
3. Oleg Ivanov (UKR)
4. Alejandro Martinez Flores (ESP)

Group 6 (Varzim)
1. Moshe Bohbot (ISR)
2. Ondřej Černý (CZE)
3. Kamil Çetin (TUR)
4. Nicola Manzione (ITA)

Group 7 (Bari)
1. Vasilios Christodoulis (GRE)
2. Gabriel Gherman (ROU)
3. Ivan Shabanov (RUS)
4. Aleksandras Sliva (LTU)

Alioum: Neant or Alioum?

In recent years, Cameroonian referee Alioum has been mentioned in the official FIFA documents, as well as in the media, with an undesirable first name "Neant", which means “none”. Alioum (photo) does actually have a first name, which - believe it or not - it is the same as his last name: Alioum.

"I am not the head of the department that deals with referees here. What I know is that the FIFA website caused this issue. At the time of his online application, the FIFA clerk who processed the applications only inputted in the system the name Alioum. But, as there is “Alioum” for the last name, it has “none” in the first name space, as if to say he has no first name. Incredibly, this situation continued for years", said a member of the Cameroon Football Federation.

Source: Star Africa / Arbitro Internacional

UEFA Europa League – Group Stage (Matchday 6)

10 December 2015

Tottenham Hotspur – AS Monaco
Referee: Ivan Bebek (CRO, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomislav Petrovic (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Miro Grgic (CRO)
Additional AR 1: Domagoj Vuckov (CRO)
Additional AR 2: Goran Gabrilo (CRO)
Fourth Official: Goran Pataki (CRO)
Referee Observer: Domenico Messina (ITA)

Fenerbahce – Celtic
Referee: Serge Gumienny (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Jimmy Cremers (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Thibaud Nijssen (BEL)
Additional AR 1: Bart Vertenten (BEL)
Additional AR 2: Wim Smet (BEL)
Fourth Official: Dirk Gilon (BEL)
Referee Observer: Vaclav Krondl (CZE)

Ajax – Molde
Referee: Ievgenii Aranovskyi (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Oleksandr Voytyuk (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Sergii Bekker (UKR)
Additional AR 1: Sergii Boiko (UKR)
Additional AR 2: Anatoliy Abdula (UKR)
Fourth Official: Semen Shlonchak (UKR)
Referee Observer: Nuno Castro (POR)

Girondins Bordeaux – Rubin Kazan
Referee: John Beaton (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Francis Connor (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Graham Chambers (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Brian Colvin (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Donald Robertson (SCO)
Fourth Official: Douglas Potter (SCO)
Referee Observer: Erol Ersoy (TUR)

Sion – Liverpool
Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Alexandros Grevenis (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Chrysoula Kourompylia (GRE)
Additional AR 1: Charalampos Kalogeropoulos (GRE)
Additional AR 2: Andreas Pappas (GRE)
Fourth Official: Christos Baltas (GRE)
Referee Observer: Jens Larsen (DEN)

Qäbälä – Krasnodar
Referee: Istvan Kovacs (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Miklos Nagy (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Vasile Marinescu (ROU)
Additional AR 1: Cristian Balaj (ROU)
Additional AR 2: Marius Avram (ROU)
Fourth Official: Mihai Artene (ROU)
Referee Observer: Kaj Natri (FIN)

Borussia Dortmund – PAOK
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (FIN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan-Peter Aravirta (FIN)
Assistant Referee 2: Mikko Alakare (FIN)
Additional AR 1: Antti Munukka (FIN)
Additional AR 2: Dennis Antamo (FIN)
Fourth Official: Jukka Honkanen (FIN)
Referee Observer: Costas Kapitanis (CYP)

Midtjylland – Club Brugge
Referee: Javier Estrada Fernandez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Miguel Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Teodoro Sobrino Magan (ESP)
Additional AR 1: Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (ESP)
Additional AR 2: Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP)
Fourth Official: Roberto Díaz Perez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Eugen Strigel (GER)

Napoli – Legia
Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (MKD)
Assistant Referee 1: Marjan Kirovski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 2: Dejan Kostadinov (MKD)
Additional AR 1: Dimitar Meckarovski (MKD)
Additional AR 2: Dejan Jakimovski (MKD)
Fourth Official: Nikola Karakolev (MKD)
Referee Observer: Pascal Garibian (FRA)

Rapid Wien – Dinamo Minsk
Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (AZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Zeynal Zeynalov (AZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Reza Mammadov (AZE)
Additional AR 1: Rahim Hasanov (AZE)
Additional AR 2: Orkhan Mammadov (AZE)
Fourth Official: Mubariz Hashimov (AZE)
Referee Observer: Luciano Luci (ITA)

Viktoria Plzen – Villarreal
Referee: Tony Chapron (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Frederic Cano (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Guillaume Debart (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Benoit Millot (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Mickael Lesage (FRA)
Fourth Official: Philippe Jeanne (FRA)
Referee Observer: Sokol Jareci (ALB)

Slovan Liberec – Olympique Marseille
Referee: Robert Schorgenhofer (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Additional AR 1: Dominik Ouschan (AUT)
Additional AR 2: Dieter Muckenhammer (AUT)
Fourth Official: Roland Riedel (AUT)
Referee Observer: Marian Ruzbarsky (SVK)

Groningen – Braga
Referee: Simon Lee Evans (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: Philip Thomas (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: John Roberts (WAL)
Additional AR 1: Bryn Markham-Jones (WAL)
Additional AR 2: Nick Pratt (WAL)
Fourth Official: Daniel Beckett (WAL)
Referee Observer: Drazenko Kovacic (CRO)

Dnipro – Rosenborg
Referee: Stephan Klossner (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Vitali Jobin (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Jean-Yves Wicht (SUI)
Additional AR 1: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Additional AR 2: Sascha Amhof (SUI)
Fourth Official: Johannes Vogel (SUI)
Referee Observer: Rodger Gifford (WAL)

Saint Etienne – Lazio
Referee: Kevin Blom (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Patrick Langkamp (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Angelo Boonman (NED)
Additional AR 1: Dennis Highler (NED)
Additional AR 2: Ed Janssen (NED)
Fourth Official: Bas Van Dongen (NED)
Referee Observer: Morgan Norman (SWE)

Sporting – Besiktas
Referee: Manuel Grafe (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Guido Kleve (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Mark Borsch (GER)
Additional AR 1: Marco Fritz (GER)
Additional AR 2: Benjamin Brand (GER)
Fourth Official: Christoph Bornhorst (GER)
Referee Observer: Emil Bozhinovski ((MKD)

Skenderbeu – Lokomotiv Moskva
Referee: Marijo Strahonja (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Ivica Modric (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Dario Vrabec (CRO)
Additional AR 1: Fran Jovic (CRO)
Additional AR 2: Mario Zebec (CRO)
Fourth Official: Hrvoje Radic (CRO)
Referee Observer: Ioannis Tsachilidis (GRE)

Fiorentina – Belenenses
Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Nikolai Golubev (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Additional AR 1: Aleksei Eskov (RUS)
Additional AR 2: Igor Fedotov (RUS)
Fourth Official: Valeri Danchenko (RUS)
Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)

Lech – Basel
Referee: Robert Madden (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Alastair Mather (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Douglas Ross (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Andrew Dallas (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Alain Muir (SCO)
Fourth Official: Alasdair Ross (SCO)
Referee Observer: Darko Ceferin (SVN)

Anderlecht – Qarabag
Referee: Slavko Vincic (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Bojan Ul (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomaz Klancnik (SVN)
Additional AR 1: Roberto Ponis (SVN)
Additional AR 2: Dragoslav Peric (SVN)
Fourth Official: Andraz Kovacic (SVN)
Referee Observer: Igor Ischenko (UKR)

Apoel – Sparta Praha
Referee: Istvan Vad (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Istvan Albert (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Peter Berettyan (HUN)
Additional AR 1: Sandor Ando-Szabo (HUN)
Additional AR 2: Jozsef Erdos (HUN)
Fourth Official: Laszlo Viszokai (HUN)
Referee Observer: Charles Agius (MLT)

Asteras – Schalke
Referee: Liran Liany (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Danny Krasikow (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: David Bitton (ISR)
Additional AR 1: Alon Yefet (ISR)
Additional AR 2: Menashe Masiah (ISR)
Fourth Official: Amihay Mozes (ISR)
Referee Observer: Zdravko Jokic (SRB)

Partizan – Augsburg
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Giallatini (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Marco Guida (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Andrea Gervasoni (ITA)
Fourth Official: Filippo Meli (ITA)
Referee Observer: Rene Temmink (NED)

Athletic – Alkmaar
Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Frederic Haquette (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Fredy Fautrel (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Amaury Delerue (FRA)
Fourth Official: Nicolas Danos (FRA)
Referee Observer: Kristinn Jakobsson (ISL)

FIFA Club World Cup 2015 – Play-off

10 December 2015

Sanfrecce Hiroshima – Auckland City
Referee: Alioum Alioum (CMR, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Evarist Menkouande (CMR)
Assistant Referee 2: Elvis Noupue (CMR)
Fourth Official: Joel Aguilar (SLV)
Reserve AR: Juan Zumba (SLV)

Copa Sudamericana Final 2015

First Leg, 2 December 2015

Huracan – Santa Fe
Referee: Antonio Arias (PAR, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Eduardo Cardozo (PAR)
Assistant Referee 2: Milciades Saldivar (PAR)
Fourth Official: Ulises Mereles (PAR)
Referee Observer: Martin Vazquez (URU)

Second Leg, 9 December 2015

Santa Fe – Huracan
Referee: Heber Lopes (BRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Kleber Gil (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bruno Boschilia (BRA)
Fourth Official: Pericles Cortez (BRA)
Referee Observer: Bernardo Corujo (VEN)

UEFA Champions League – Group Stage (Matchday 6)

8 December 2015
VfL Wolfsburg – Manchester United
Referee: Milorad Mazic (SRB, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristic (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Dalibor Djurdjevic (SRB)
Additional AR 1: Danilo Grujic (SRB)
Additional AR 2: Nenad Djokic (SRB)
Fourth Official: Nemanja Petrovic (SRB)
Referee Observer: Manuel Lopez Fernandez (ESP)

Real Madrid – Malmo FF
Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Lorenzo Manganelli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Riccardo Di Fiore (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Gianluca Cariolato (ITA)
Referee Observer: Markus Nobs (SUI)

Paris SG – Shakhtar Donetsk
Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Gary Beswick (ENG)
Additional AR 1: Andre Marriner (ENG)
Additional AR 2: Robert Madley (ENG)
Fourth Official: Michael Salisbury (ENG)
Referee Observer: Frank De Bleeckere (BEL)

PSV Eindhoven – CSKA Moskva
Referee: David Fernandez Borbalan (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Raul Cabanero Martinez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Alonso Fernandez (ESP)
Additional AR 1: Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP)
Additional AR 2: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Fourth Official: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP)
Referee Observer: Murat Ilgaz (TUR)

SL Benfica – Atletico Madrid
Referee: Ovidiu Hategan (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Sovre (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)
Additional AR 1: Alexandru Tudor (ROU)
Additional AR 2: Sebastian Coltescu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Referee Observer: Sergey Zuev (RUS)

Galatasaray – Astana
Referee: Craig Thomson (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: David McGeachie (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: William Conquer (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Steven McLean (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Kevin Clancy (SCO)
Fourth Official: Alan Mulvanny (SCO)
Referee Observer: Paul Allaerts (BEL)

Manchester City – Borussia Monchengladbach
Referee: Danny Makkelie (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Mario Diks (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Hessel Steegstra (NED)
Additional AR 1: Serdar Gozubuyuk (NED)
Additional AR 2: Jochem Kamphuis (NED)
Fourth Official: Rob Van de Ven (NED)
Referee Observer: Alan Snoddy (NIR)

Sevilla FC – Juventus Turin
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Pawel Sokolnicki (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Additional AR 1: Pawel Raczkowski (POL)
Additional AR 2: Tomasz Musial (POL)
Fourth Official: Radoslaw Siejka POL)
Referee Observer: Oguz Sarvan (TUR)

9 December 2015
Bayer Leverkusen – FC Barcelona
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Simon Beck (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Jake Collin (ENG)
Additional AR 1: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Additional AR 2: Kevin Friend (ENG)
Fourth Official: John Brooks (ENG)
Referee Observer: Peter Mikkelsen (DEN)

AS Roma – Bate Borisov
Referee: Martin Atkinson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Michael Mullarkey (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Stephen Child (ENG)
Additional AR 1: Michael Oliver (ENG)
Additional AR 2: Jonathan Moss (ENG)
Fourth Official: Peter Kirkup (ENG)
Referee Observer: Fritz Stuchlik (AUT)

Olympiakos – Arsenal
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mauro Tonolini (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Antonio Damato (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Davide Massa (ITA)
Fourth Official: Andrea Padovan (ITA)
Referee Observer: Michel Vautrot (FRA)

Dinamo Zagreb – Bayern Munchen
Referee: Martin Strombergsson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehmet Culum (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Gustavsson (SWE)
Additional AR 1: Michael Lerjeus (SWE)
Additional AR 2: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE)
Fourth Official: Per Brogevik (SWE)
Referee Observer: Juan Fernandez Marin (ESP)

Chelsea – FC Porto
Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bahattin Duran (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Tarik Ongun (TUR)
Additional AR 1: Huseyin Gocek (TUR)
Additional AR 2: Baris Simsek (TUR)
Fourth Official: Emre Eyisoy (TUR)
Referee Observer: Jorn West Larsen (DEN)

Dymamo Kyiv – Maccabi Tel Aviv
Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Additional AR 1: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Additional AR 2: Richard Liesveld (NED)
Fourth Official: Charles Schaap (NED)
Referee Observer: Alexandru Deaconu (ROU)

Valencia – Olympique Lyon
Referee: Matej Jug (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Matej Zunic (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Jure Praprotnik (SVN)
Additional AR 1: Mitja Zganec (SVN)
Additional AR 2: Dejan Balazic (SVN)
Fourth Official: Manuel Vidali (SVN)
Referee Observer: Terje Hauge (NOR)

KAA Gent – Zenit St. Petersburg
Referee: Manuel De Sousa (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bertino Miranda (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Alvaro Mesquita (POR)
Additional AR 1: Carlos Taborda (POR)
Additional AR 2: Joao Santos (POR)
Fourth Official: Ricardo Santos (POR)
Referee Observer: Hans Reijgwart (NED)