UEFA U-21 Euro 2019 Qualifiers (Matchday 8)

8-10 November 2017

Hungary – Sweden
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (SUI, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Vital Jobin (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Raffael Zeder (SUI)
Fourth Official: Lionel Tschudi (SUI)

Croatia – San Marino
Referee: Giorgi Vadachkoria (GEO)
Assistant Referee 1: Levan Varamishvili (GEO)
Assistant Referee 2: Giorgi Elikashvili (GEO)
Fourth Official: Giorgi Kikacheishvili (GEO)
Referee Observer: Jari Maisonlahti (FIN)

Azerbaijan – Germany
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 1: Alibek Aubakirov (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 2: Yevheniy Belskiy (KAZ)
Fourth Official: Bulat Sariyev (KAZ)
Referee Observer: Muharrem Aksoy (TUR)

France – Bulgaria
Referee: Thorvaldur Árnason (ISL)
Assistant Referee 1: Gunnar Gudmundsson (ISL)
Assistant Referee 2: Birkir Sigurdarson (ISL)
Fourth Official: Thóroddur Hjaltalín (ISL)
Referee Observer: Václav Krondl (CZE)

Kosovo – Israel
Referee: Charalambos Kalogeropoulos (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Chrístos Akrívos (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Ioánnis Toumpakáris (GRE)
Fourth Official: Ioánnis Papadópoulos (GRE)
Referee Observer: Stefano Podeschi (SMR)

Slovenia – Montenegro
Referee: Luca Barbeno (SMR)
Assistant Referee 1: Francesco Lunardon (SMR)
Assistant Referee 2: Salvatore Tuttifrutti (SMR)
Fourth Official: Emiliano Albani (SMR)
Referee Observer: Volodymyr Petrov (UKR)

Spain – Iceland
Referee: Eitan Shmuelevitz (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Amihay Mozes (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Sagy Mazamber (ISR)
Fourth Official: Daniel Natan (ISR)
Referee Observer: Christer Fällström (SWE)

Belgium – Cyprus
Referee: Enea Jorgji (ALB)
Assistant Referee 1: Denis Rexha (ALB)
Assistant Referee 2: Ilir Tartaraj (ALB)
Fourth Official: Klajdi Kola (ALB)
Referee Observer: Ingi Jónsson (ISL)

Armenia – Russia
Referee: Nikola Popov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Georgi Todorov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Veselin Dobriyanov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Nikolai Yordanov (BUL)

Malta – Turkey
Referee: Alexandru Tean (MDA)
Assistant Referee 1: Anatolie Bodean (MDA)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Mardari (MDA)
Fourth Official: Piotr Stoianov (MDA)

Georgia – Finland
Referee: Oleksandr Derdo (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Ihor Alokhin (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Serhiy Prystupa (UKR)
Fourth Official: Mykola Kryvonosov (UKR)

Ukraine – England
Referee: Frank Schneider (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Djemel Zitouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Johan Hamel (FRA)

Faroe Islands – Poland
Referee: Ferenc Karakó (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Péter Kóbor (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Balázs Szert (HUN)
Fourth Official: Balázs Berke (HUN)

Albania – Northern Ireland
Referee: Fran Jović (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Ivica Modrić (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Hrvoje Radić (CRO)
Fourth Official: Igor Pajač (CRO)

Romania – Portugal
Referee: José Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Raúl Cabañero Martínez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: José Gallego García (ESP)
Fourth Official: Santiago Jaime Latre (ESP)

Austria – Serbia
Referee: Aliyar Ağayev (AZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Zeynal Zeynalov (AZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Rza Mammadov (AZE)
Fourth Official: Orxan Mammadov (AZE)

Netherlands – Andorra
Referee: Ian McNabb (NIR)
Assistant Referee 1: Stephen Donaldson (NIR)
Assistant Referee 2: Stephen Bell (NIR)
Fourth Official: Keith Kennedy (NIR)

Wales – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Referee: Chrístos Nikolaḯdis (CYP)
Assistant Referee 1: Michális Sotiríou (CYP)
Assistant Referee 2: Mários Kalogírou (CYP)
Fourth Official: Loúkas Sotiríou (CYP)

Scotland – Latvia
Referee: Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Henrik Sønderby (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Elvis Boric (DEN)
Fourth Official: Anders Poulsen (DEN)

DFB: Krug demoted as VAR project manager after manipulation claims

Bundesliga referee supervisor Hellmut Krug has been stripped of his role as video assistant referee project manager, and supervisors are no longer permitted to speak to the VAR in charge of matches, after questions were raised over manipulation. After a successful test behind closed doors last season, the Bundesliga was one of several leagues to introduce VAR for a trial period in the 2017-18 season in an effort to reduce refereeing errors, with Krug managing the project. The VAR system in Germany sees officials at a centralised Replay Centre in Cologne in touch with referees throughout matches.

Bild Am Sonntag reported at the weekend that Krug -- who lost his place on the German FA (DFB)'s referee committee last week -- was accused of unduly influencing two VAR penalty decisions in Schalke's favour in the 1-1 draw with Wolfsburg in October. Krug, who lives close to Schalke's Veltins Arena, rejected those allegations, saying in Bild: "As supervisors we have no power to influence the video assistant referee's decision or even overrule it." Marco Fritz, the VAR in charge of that match, also said in a statement released by the DFB on Sunday that the VAR alone decides whether to intervene. However, the DFB announced on its website on Monday that it had made a decision in conjunction with the German Football League (DFL) to remove Krug from the post. The statement said the VAR trial will now be led directly by referees chief Lutz Michael Frohlich "because of the high significance for German football and the recent irritations." The DFB, which said Krug will retain a role within the VAR project in content analysis and professional documentation, did not address the accusation of manipulation during Schalke's draw with Wolfsburg directly in the statement but said supervisors could no longer speak to VARs during games. The statement added: "For him, as well as the other supervisors, they will no longer have direct communication with the video assistants during the games. The video assistant decides completely independently what assessment he sends to the responsible referee on the pitch." Ronny Zimmermann, a DFB vice-president responsible for referees, said in the official statement: "We still believe in this project and all emotionalism aside we should not forget that there are successes in many fields during the testing period. Regardless, we are aware of our responsibility and the necessity to optimize this project." In comments made to Sport Bild, Zimmermann said the decision to demote Krug was made as "protection against unknown attackers." He added: "Right now, we don't know who starts rumours like this and want to prevent this from happening again. We also believe that we no longer need the role of the supervisor in the current function."

The news of Krug's demotion comes amid growing frustration among Bundesliga officials with the system. When announcing in January that it would stage a trial period, the DFL said VAR will only be used for clear matters and in four separate situations -- for irregularities in the case of a goal decision, penalty box situations regarding penalty calls, red card offences unnoticed by the referee, and in cases of mistaken identity over a yellow or red card. Eleven matchdays into the new season, there is a growing concern that VAR is failing to bring more fairness into decision-making and has served largely to increase confusion, which has been fuelled by a lack of communication from those in charge of the trial. Last Thursday, German football magazine kicker released parts of a letter the DFB sent to clubs informing them that, from matchday five onward, VAR should intervene more often and not only in situations in which the on-field referee committed an "obvious error." However, kicker reported that the letter was only sent to clubs before the 10th matchday, weeks after the initial decision to change the guidelines. While DFB referees chief Frohlich last week tried to clarify the changes in a second letter to the clubs, the association's president, Reinhard Grindel, said he had not been informed about the original letter. In the statement released on Monday, the DFB said the changes announced in letter released by kicker have become obsolete, and instead "the letter drafted by Lutz Frohlich on Nov. 3 which in principal says the video assistant only intervenes if there is a mistake in perception in decisive scenes." The association also announced a timely invitation for "referees, video assistants, manager of clubs and media" to explain "under which circumstances the video assistant intervenes and under which he does not intervene." "The DFB's communication in that matter is a catastrophe," Borussia Monchengladbach sporting director Max Eberl told kicker. "If you are in a trial period and you need to make adjustments then there might be an argument for that, but you should be kept informed." Gladbach coach Dieter Hecking said following his side's 1-1 draw at Mainz this weekend -- a result affected by controversial VAR decisions -- that he believes the trial period could be scrapped mid-season. "I daresay it will be scrapped in the winter break," he said. "It would be good for football, but all of us do everything we can to stop it." While Hecking argued that there was too much criticism during a trial period, Eintracht Frankfurt sporting director Fredi Bobic said in kicker that he has the impression the use of VAR had been "arbitrary," adding: "There must be simple rules." Meanwhile, former World Cup referee Bernd Heynemann said in kicker that "referees are only puppets on a string now. The decisions are made in a dark room in Cologne. And that's just not possible".

Source: ESPN

FIFA Referees Committee 2017-2018

Former Wold Cup referee An-Yan Lim Kee Chong (Mauritius, photo) is the latest addition to the FIFA Referees Committee, currently composed of 12 members. There are two representatives from each confederation: the Head of Refereeing and a member the Referees Committee.

Chairman
Pierluigi Collina (ITA, UEFA)

Deputy Chairman
Hany Safar (QAT, AFC)

Members
1. Amelio Andino (PAR, CONMEBOL)
2. Dagmar Damkova (CZE, UEFA)
3. Brian Hall (USA, CONCACAF)
4. Sandra Hunt (USA, CONCACAF)
5. An-Yan Lim Kee Chong (MRI, CAF)
6. Shamsul Maidin (SIN, AFC)
7. Eddy Maillet (SEY, CAF)
8. Neil Poloso (SOL, OFC)
9. Wilson Seneme (BRA, CONMEBOL)
10. Kevin Stoltenkamp (NZL, OFC)

FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualifiers – Play-offs (UEFA)

First Leg, 9-11 November 2017

Northern Ireland – Switzerland
Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (ROU, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Octavian Șovre (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)
Fourth Official: István Kovács (ROU)
Referee Observer: Marc Batta (FRA)

Croatia – Greece
Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mauro Tonolini (ITA)
Fourth Official: Luca Banti (ITA)
Referee Observer: Alain Hamer (LUX)

Sweden – Italy
Referee: Cüneyt Çakir (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bahattin Duran (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Tarik Ongun (TUR)
Fourth Official: Hüseyin Göçek (TUR)
Referee Observer: Sandor Piller (HUN)

Denmark – Ireland
Referee: Milorad Mažić (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristić (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Dalibor Djurdjević (SRB)
Fourth Official: Srdjan Jovanović (SRB)
Referee Observer: Jaap Uilenberg (NED)

Second Leg, 12-14 November 2017

Switzerland – Northern Ireland
Referee: Felix Brych (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mark Borsch (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Felix Zwayer (GER)
Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)

Greece – Croatia
Referee: Björn Kuipers (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Fourth Official: Danny Makkelie (NED)
Referee Observer: Nikolai Levnikov (RUS)

Italy – Sweden
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrián Devís (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Díaz Pérez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP)
Referee Observer: Vladimir Sajn (SVN)

Ireland – Denmark
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Paweł Sokolnicki (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Fourth Official: Paweł Raczkowski (POL)
Referee Observer: Markus Nobs (SUI)

Referee Bognar sent-off Evra after kicking a fan in the head before the kick-off in Europa League

Footage shows the 36-year-old former Manchester United defender aiming an acrobatic kick at a supporter at the side of the pitch during the warm-up. Evra, who was named as a substitute, was dismissed before kick-off and Marseille started with 11 players. Governing body UEFA has charged Evra with violent conduct. The full-back has been suspended for "at least one game", with UEFA's disciplinary body to decide the case on 10 November. Marseille have also been charged with a field invasion by fans, setting off of fireworks and "acts of damages". French newspaper L'Equipe reported Marseille supporters had been jeering Evra for about half an hour while the players prepared for the game, which the French side lost 1-0. The player had gone over to the fans to talk to them, but the situation escalated. French football journalist Julien Laurens said Evra - who regularly posts light-hearted videos on social media - was insulted and also told: "Keep doing your videos, but stop playing football." Marseille said that they had begun an investigation into the incident. "No matter what happens, a professional player must maintain self-control despite provocations and insults, no matter how unjustified they may be", the club said in a statement. Marseille coach Rudi Garcia said after the match: "Pat has experience, and he must not react, it's obvious. Patrice is a more than just an experienced player. You can't respond, of course, to insults as bad as they are and as incredible as they might be because they come from one of our supporters. He must learn to keep his cool. That's all I can say." Garcia also criticised the fan, saying: "He's not a supporter of Marseille, because you can't insult your own players, you have to be behind all of us." Evra, who won five Premier League titles and the Champions League during eight years at Manchester United, joined Marseille from Juventus in January but has made only two appearances this season.

How it happened

- Named as a substitute, Evra begins warming up with his team-mates before the game

- The former Manchester United left-back appears to be the target of songs and abuse from the crowd for about 30 minutes

- Evra approaches the Marseille fans, about 500 of whom had travelled to Guimaraes

- He volleys a ball towards the crowd, but some of his team-mates come over and look to calm the defender down

- Evra climbs over the billboards and looks to confront spectators who have come towards the front of the stand

- The 36-year-old returns to the pitch, but a group of fans approach the billboards and Evra appears to kick one of them

- Evra is led away to the substitutes' bench, but is sent off by the referee and watches the game from the stands

Analysis 

Julien Laurens, French football expert: “It is really sad. Patrice Evra is 36, he has got two children. He has played five Champions League finals, a Euro final, won lots of titles and this is probably the last few weeks of his career - it is really sad this is how he is going to end. You shouldn't abuse your own player - the abuse from the fans was targeted only at Patrice Evra - but Evra should never have responded the way he did. It has been really tough for him since the beginning of the season. He lost his place in the team, he has been really poor every time he played, and I think he just couldn't take the jeers, the abuse. There were a lot of insults, but the fans were also saying stuff like: "You're rubbish, go home. Keep doing your videos, but stop playing football." You can be critical, but the way they insulted him and his family - that doesn't justify his reaction, but you can see why he got frustrated. He is 100%. He says things like they are, he reacts the way they are. He says there are no fibs with him, so you get it as he says it or as he does it. Sometimes he should think a bit more.”

This incident evoked memories of Eric Cantona's infamous "kung-fu kick" during Manchester United's game against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in January 1995. The Frenchman was banned for nine months by the Football Association for the incident, which took place as he left the pitch after being sent off.

Source: BBC

AFC Champions League Final 2017

First Leg, 18 November 2017

Al Hilal – Urawa Red Diamonds
Referee: Adham Makhadmeh (JOR, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Ahmad Al-Roalle (JOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Issa Al-Amawi (JOR)
Additional AR 1: Muhammad Taqi (SIN)
Additional AR 2: Hettikamkanamge Perera (SRI)
Fourth Official: Yousef Al-Jararwah (JOR)

Second Leg, 25 November 2017

Urawa Red Diamonds – Al Hilal
Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (UZB)
Assistant Referee 1: Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (UZB)
Assistant Referee 2: Jakhongir Saidov (UZB)
Additional AR 1: Valentin Kovalenko (UZB)
Additional AR 2: Ilgiz Tantashev (UZB)
Fourth Official: Mamur Saidkasimov (UZB)

UEFA Europa League – Group Stage (Matchday 4)

2 November 2017

Arsenal – Crvena Zvezda 
Referee: Luca Banti (ITA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Lorenzo Manganelli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Andrea Crispo (ITA)
Referee Observer: Fritz Stuchlik (AUT)

Slavia Praha – Villarreal
Referee: Robert Madden (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: David McGeachie (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Alan Mulvanny (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Donald Robertson (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Nicholas Walsh (SCO)
Fourth Official: Stuart Stevenson (SCO)
Referee Observer: Lucilio Batista (POR)

Maccabi Tel Aviv – FK Astana
Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Michal Obukowicz (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Additional AR 1: Tomasz Musiał (POL)
Additional AR 2: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL)
Fourth Official: Radosław Siejka (POL)
Referee Observer: Uno Tutk (EST)

Young Boys – Dynamo Kyiv
Referee: Tony Chapron (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Frédéric Cano (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Bertrand Jouannaud (FRA)
Additional AR 1: Frank Schneider (FRA)
Additional AR 2: Karim Abed (FRA)
Fourth Official: Eric Danizan (FRA)
Referee Observer: Aleh Chykun (BLR)

Partizan – Skënderbeu
Referee: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Yuste Jiménez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Alonso Fernández (ESP)
Additional AR 1: José Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
Additional AR 2: Santiago Jaime Latre (ESP)
Fourth Official: Javier Aguilar Rodríguez (ESP)
Referee Observer: John Ward (IRL)

Başakşehir – Hoffenheim
Referee: Harald Lechner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Additional AR 1: Alexander Harkam (AUT)
Additional AR 2: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Fourth Official: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Referee Observer: Elmir Pilav (BIH)

Ludogorets – Sporting Braga
Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Valeri Danchenko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Additional AR 1: Kirill Levnikov (RUS)
Additional AR 2: Igor Fedotov (RUS)
Fourth Official: Aleksei Lunev (RUS)
Referee Observer: Stavros Tritsonis (GRE)

HNK Rijeka – Austria Wien
Referee: Jakob Kehlet (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Henrik Larsen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Heine Sørensen (DEN)
Additional AR 1: Michael Tykgaard (DEN)
Additional AR 2: Jens Maae (DEN)
Fourth Official: Lars Rix (DEN)
Referee Observer: Kostadin Gerginov (BUL)

AEK Athens – AC Milan
Referee: Manuel De Sousa (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Alvaro Mesquita (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Ricardo Santos (POR)
Additional AR 1: Luis Godinho (POR)
Additional AR 2: Fabio Veríssimo (POR)
Fourth Official: Nuno Pereira (POR)
Referee Observer: Emil Bozinovski (MKD)

Apollon Limassol – Atalanta Bergamasca
Referee: Andris Treimanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA)
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonnikovs (LVA)
Additional AR 1: Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA)
Additional AR 2: Edgars Malcevs (LVA)
Fourth Official: Raimonds Tatriks (LVA)
Referee Observer: Jouni Hyytia (FIN)

Olympique Lyonnais – Everton
Referee: Orel Grinfled (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Danny Krasikow (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Roy Hassan (ISR)
Additional AR 1: Eli Hacmon (ISR)
Additional AR 2: Ziv Adler (ISR)
Fourth Official: Amihay Mozes (ISR)
Referee Observer: Matteo Trefoloni (ITA)

FC København – Fastav Zlín
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (MNE)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Djukić (MNE)
Assistant Referee 2: Jovica Tatar (MNE)
Additional AR 1: Miloš Bošković (MNE)
Additional AR 2: Milovan Milacić (MNE)
Fourth Official: Aleksandar Djikanović (MNE)
Referee Observer: Luciano Luci (ITA)

Lokomotiv Moskva – Sheriff Tiraspol
Referee: Sébastien Delferiere (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Yves De Neve (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jo de Weirdt (BEL)
Additional AR 1: Lawrence Visser (BEL)
Additional AR 2: Alexandre Boucaut (BEL)
Fourth Official: Kevin Monteny (BEL)
Referee Observer: Gevorg Hovhannisyan (ARM)

FCSB – Hapoel Beer Sheva
Referee: Halis Özkahya (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Çem Satman (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Ekrem Kan (TUR)
Additional AR 1: Ali Palabıyık (TUR)
Additional AR 2: Yasar Ugurlu (TUR)
Fourth Official: Kerem Ersoym (TUR)
Referee Observer: Michael Ross (NIR)

Viktoria Plzeň – FC Lugano
Referee: Jonathan Lardot (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Frédéric Godelaine (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Laurent Conotte (BEL)
Additional AR 1: Bart Vertenten (BEL)
Additional AR 2: Nathan Verboomen (BEL)
Fourth Official: Thibaud Nijssen (BEL)
Referee Observer: Fredy Fautrel (FRA)

FC Köln – Bate Borisov
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: Miroslav Liba (CZE)

Vitória SC – Olympique de Marseille
Referee: Tamás Bognár (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Balázs Buzás (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Theodoros Georgiou (HUN)
Additional AR 1: Ádám Farkas (HUN)
Additional AR 2: Péter Solymosi (HUN)
Fourth Official: Péter Kóbor (HUN)
Referee Observer: Peter Sippel (GER)

FC Salzburg – Konyaspor
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Costanzo (ITA)
Additional AR 1: Marco Guida (ITA)
Additional AR 2: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Fourth Official: Ciro Carbone (ITA)
Referee Observer: Yuri Baskakov (RUS)

Athletic Club – Östersunds
Referee: Pawel Gil (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Konrad Sapela (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Marcin Borkowski (POL)
Additional AR 1: Jaroslaw Przybyl (POL)
Additional AR 2: Piotr Lasyk (POL)
Fourth Official: Adam Kupsik (POL)
Referee Observer: Jon Skjervold (NOR)

Hertha BSC – FC Zorya
Referee: John Beaton (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Douglas Potter (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Sean Carr (SCO)
Additional AR 1: Kevin Clancy (SCO)
Additional AR 2: Steven McLean (SCO)
Fourth Official: Jordan Stokoe (SCO)
Referee Observer: Kjell Alseth (NOR)

Lazio – Nice
Referee: Jesus Gil Manzano (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Angel Nevado Rodríguez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Teodoro Sobrino Magan (ESP)
Additional AR 1: Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (ESP)
Additional AR 2: Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea (ESP)
Fourth Official: Roberto Díaz Pérez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Jan Wegereef (NED)

SBV Vitesse – Zulte Waregem
Referee: Yevhen Aranovsky (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Oleksandr Voytyuk (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Serhiy Bekker (UKR)
Additional AR 1: Serhiy Boiko (UKR)
Additional AR 2: Anatoliy Abdula (UKR)
Fourth Official: Semen Shlonchak (UKR)
Referee Observer: Shmuel Shteif (ISR)

Rosenborg – Zenit
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Davie Goossens (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Bas van Dongen (NED)
Additional AR 1: Dennis Higler (NED)
Additional AR 2: Allard Lindhout (NED)
Fourth Official: Jan Vries (NED)
Referee Observer: Manuel Mejuto González (ESP)

Real Sociedad – Vardar
Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Markus Gutschi (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Roland Riedel (AUT)
Additional AR 1: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Additional AR 2: Rene Eisner (AUT)
Fourth Official: Andreas Witschnigg (AUT)
Referee Observer: Johan Verbist (BEL)

Copa Sudamericana – Quarter-finals (Second Leg)

1-2 November 2017

Racing Club – Libertad
Referee: Anderson Daronco (BRA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Emerson De Carvalho (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Van Gasse (BRA)
Fourth Official: Wagner Magalhaes (BRA)
Referee Assessor: Claudio Puga (CHI)

Flamengo – Fluminense
Referee: Patricio Loustau (ARG)
Assistant Referee 1: Diego Bonfa (ARG)
Assistant Referee 2: Cristian Navarro (ARG)
Fourth Official: German Delfino (ARG)
Referee Assessor: Roberto Silvera (URU)

Independiente – Nacional
Referee: Roddy Zambrano (ECU)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Lescano (ECU)
Assistant Referee 2: Byron Romero (ECU)
Fourth Official: Carlos Orbe (ECU)
Referee Assessor: Ana Perez (PER)

Junior – Sport Recife
Referee: Daniel Fedorczuk (URU)
Assistant Referee 1: Mauricio Espinosa (URU)
Assistant Referee 2: Miguel Nievas (URU)
Fourth Official: Christian Ferreyra (URU)
Referee Assessor: Carlos Herrera (ECU)

UEFA Youth League – Group Stage (Matchday 4)

31 October 2017
FC Basel – CSKA Moskva
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (LUX, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: David Santos (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: Joaquim Da Silva (LUX)
Fourth Official: Alessandro Dudic (LUX)
Referee Observer: Cyril Zimmermann (SUI)

AS Roma – Chelsea
Referee: Srdjan Jovanović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Uroš Stojković (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Milan Mihajlović (SRB)
Fourth Official: Livio Marinelli (ITA)
Referee Observer: Alfredo Trentalange (ITA)

Manchester United – Benfica
Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Dennis Rasmussen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Skytte (DEN)
Fourth Official: Anthony Backhouse (ENG)
Referee Observer: Stephen Lodge (ENG)

Paris SG – Anderlecht
Referee: Irfan Peljto (BIH)
Assistant Referee 1: Senad Ibrišimbegović (BIH)
Assistant Referee 2: Davor Beljo (BIH)
Fourth Official: Bastien Dechepy (FRA)
Referee Observer: Bertrand Layec (FRA)

Celtic – Bayern München
Referee: Ola Hobber Nilsen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Anders Dale (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Isaak Skjeseth (NOR)
Fourth Official: Barry Cook (SCO)
Referee Observer: William Young (Scotland)

Atlético de Madrid – Qarabağ FK
Referee: Stephan Klossner (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Remy Zgraggen (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Efe Kurnazca (SUI)
Fourth Official: Valentín Pizarro Gómez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP)

Sporting – Juventus
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Rui Piteira Rodrigues (POR)
Referee Observer: Edward Foley (IRL)

Olympiakós – FC Barcelona
Referee: Roi Reinshreiber (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Matityahu Yakobov (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Omer Barbiro (ISR)
Fourth Official: Ioánnis Neofytiádis (GRE)
Referee Observer: Ioánnis Tsachilídis (GRE)

1 November 2017
Liverpool – Maribor
Referee: Andrew Dallas (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Paul O'Neill (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel McFarlane (SCO)
Fourth Official: Scott Oldham (ENG)
Referee Observer: Gerard Perry (IRL)

Sevilla FC – Spartak Moskva
Referee: Duje Strukan (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Goran Perica (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Mario Pepur (CRO)
Fourth Official: Jorge Figueroa Vázquez (ESP)
Referee Observer: Juan Fernández Marín (ESP)

Shakhtar Donetsk – Feyenoord
Referee: Zbyněk Proske (CZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Radek Kotík (CZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Kamil Hájek (CZE)
Fourth Official: Vitaliy Romanov (UKR)
Referee Observer: Vasyl Melnychuk (UKR)

SSC Napoli – Manchester City
Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Tobias Christ (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Timo Gerach (GER)
Fourth Official: Eugenio Abbattista (ITA)
Referee Observer: Stefano Podeschi (SMR)

Beşiktaş – AS Monaco
Referee: Nikola Popov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Georgi Todorov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Petar Dzhuganski (BUL)
Fourth Official: Oğuzhan Uğurlu (TUR)
Referee Observer: Muharrem Aksoy (TUR)

FC Porto – RB Leipzig
Referee: Robert Madley (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Edward Smart (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Adrian Holmes (ENG)
Fourth Official: João Borlido (POR)
Referee Observer: António Almeida (POR)

Tottenham Hotspur – Real Madrid
Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard Andersen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Brixen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Nørgaard (DEN)
Fourth Official: John Brooks (ENG)
Referee Observer: Alan Freeland (SCO)

Borussia Dortmund – Apoel 
Referee: Antti Munukka (FIN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jukka Honkanen (FIN)
Assistant Referee 2: Turkka Valjakka (FIN)
Fourth Official: Thorben Siewer (GER)
Referee Observer: Lutz Fröhlich (GER)

UEFA Youth League – Domestic Champions Path (Round of 16, First Leg)

29 October 2017
Shakhtsior Salihorsk – FC Nitra
Referee: Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt (DEN, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Jesper Dahl (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Jakob Mastrup (DEN)
Fourth Official: Anton Lashuk (BLR)
Referee Observer: Aleh Chykun (BLR)

31 October 2017
Lokomotiva Zagreb – Željezničar
Referee: Oleksandr Derdo (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Ihor Alokhin (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Oleksandr Zhukov (UKR)
Fourth Official: Ivan Vučković (CRO)
Referee Observer: Igor Pristovnik (CRO)

Legia Warszawa – Ajax
Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Alexandru Cerei (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Valentin Avram (ROU)
Fourth Official: Zbigniew Dobrynin (POL)
Referee Observer: Robert Małek (POL)

1 November 2017
Internazionale Milano – Esbjerg
Referee: Mario Zebec (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Borut Križarić (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Jerko Crnčić (CRO)
Fourth Official: Daniele Minelli (ITA)
Referee Observer: Francesco Bianchi (SUI)

FC Krasnodar – Budapest Honvéd
Referee: Suren Baliyan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 1: Mesrop Ghazaryan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 2: Atom Sevgulyan (ARM)
Fourth Official: Artem Chistyakov (RUS)
Referee Observer: Aleksandr Gvardis (RUS)

Zimbru Chișinău – Molde FK
Referee: Sándor Andó-Szabó (HUN)
Assistant Referee 1: Balázs Szert (HUN)
Assistant Referee 2: Balázs Szalai (HUN)
Fourth Official: Ion Orlic (MDA)
Referee Observer: Igor Șațchi (MDA)

Sparta Praha – Red Bull Salzburg
Referee: Bojan Nikolić (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Nikola Djorović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Miloje Milićević (SRB)
Fourth Official: Ondřej Berka (CZE)
Referee Observer: Karel Bohuněk (CZE)

FK Brodarac – FC Saburtalo
Referee: Luca Barbeno (SMR)
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Ercolani (SMR)
Assistant Referee 2: Laurentiu Ilie (SMR)
Fourth Official: Andrija Stojanović (SRB)
Referee Observer: Zoran Petrović (SRB)