The IFFHS has devised an equitable method for determining the World’s Best Referee of the Decade 2011-2020. The Federation has taken in consideration the Top 20 of each annual ranking of each category concerned and allocated points to each place. So the first placed received 20 points, the second placed 19 points, the third placed 18 points… and 1 point for the 20th place. If the annual ranking comprised fewer than 20 referees, no point were awarded for the unoccupied places. Adding the points from the individual years, Germany’s Top Referee Felix Brych is the World’s Best Referee of the Decade 2011-2020. The 45-years-old Brych, who was one time The World’s Best Referee of the year in 2017, is known for his regularity (second in 2019 and 2020, third in 2014, fourth in 2013, 2015 and 2018), so he became a deserved winner with only one point more than Cuneyt Cakir from Turkey and 8 more than Netherland’s Bjorn Kuipers, two referees with similar regularity and personality. (Source: IFFHS)
IFFHS World’s Best Referee of Decade 2011-2020
2. Cuneyt Cakir (TUR) 140 p
3. Bjorn Kuipers (NED) 133 p
4. Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) 113 p
5. Nestor Pitana (ARG) 88 p
6. Howard Webb (ENG) 76 p
7. Damir Skomina (SVN) 76 p
8. Martin Atkinson (ENG) 69 p
9. Viktor Kassai (HUN) 56 p
10. Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP) 54 p
11. Gianluca Rocchi (ITA) 53 p
12. Mark Clattenburg (ENG) 52 p
13. Pedro Proenca (POR) 49 p
14. Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP) 47 p
15. Milorad Mazic (SRB) 35 p
16. Ravshan Irmatov (UZB) 33 p
17. Jonas Eriksson (SWE) 30 p
18. Clement Turpin (FRA) 30 p
19. Alireza Faghani (IRN) 23 p