UEFA Women's Euro 2021 – Qualifying Round (Matchday 3)

2-4 October 2019

Turkey – Estonia
Referee: Marta Frias Acedo (ESP, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Silvia Fernández Pérez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Carmela Capistrós Bitrián (ESP)
Fourth Official: Paola Cebollada López (ESP)
Referee Observer: Marina Mamayeva (RUS)

North Macedonia – Kazakhstan
Referee: Justina Lavrenovaitė (LTU)
Assistant Referee 1: Ieva Ramanauskienė (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Gerda Eidinzonaitė (LTU)
Fourth Official: Rasa Imanalijeva (LTU)
Referee Observer: Bente Skogvang (NOR)

Denmark – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Referee: Monika Mularczyk (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Kinga Seniuk-Mikulska (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Karolina Zygmond (POL)
Fourth Official: Michalina Diakow (POL)
Referee Observer: Knarik Grigoryan (ARM)

Malta – Italy
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (MKD)
Assistant Referee 1: Biljana Atanasovski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 2: Elena Soklevska-Ilievski (MKD)
Fourth Official: Marija Koneska (MKD)
Referee Observer: Vencel Tóth (HUN)

Lithuania – Switzerland
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Paulina Baranowska (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Karolina Skalska (POL)
Fourth Official: Anna Adamska (POL)
Referee Observer: Alieh Čykun (BLR)

Belarus – Norway
Referee: Simona Ghisletta (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Belinda Pierre (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Laetitia Nuara (SUI)
Fourth Official: Deborah Anex (SUI)
Referee Observer: Snježana Fočić (CRO)

Albania – Portugal
Referee: Ruzanna Petrosyan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 1: Hasmik Gharibyan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 2: Kristine Grigoryan (ARM)
Fourth Official: Araksya Saribekyan (ARM)
Referee Observer: Galina Doneva (BUL)

Latvia – Slovakia
Referee: Aleksandra Česen (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Staša Špur (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Tanja Vrabel (SVN)
Fourth Official: Tanja Subotič (SVN)
Referee Observer: Sofía Karagiórgi (CYP)

Slovenia – Netherlands
Referee: Petra Pavlíková (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Mária Súkeníková (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Miroslava Obertová (SVK)
Fourth Official: Zuzana Valentová (SVK)
Referee Observer: Antonía Kokotoú (GRE)

Hungary – Sweden
Referee: Melis Özçiğdem (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Deybet Gök (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Mürvet Yavuztürk (TUR)
Fourth Official: Cansu Tiryaki (TUR)
Referee Observer: Kostadin Gerginov (BUL)

Spain – Azerbaijan
Referee: Paula Brady (IRL)
Assistant Referee 1: Michelle O'Neill (IRL)
Assistant Referee 2: Olivia Sneyd (IRL)
Fourth Official: Orla Devaney (IRL)
Referee Observer: Ladislav Gádoši (SVK)

Germany – Ukraine
Referee: Lorraine Watson (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Kylie Cockburn (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Vikki Allan (SCO)
Fourth Official: Lauren Whitehead (SCO)
Referee Observer: Esther Azzopardi (MLT)

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2019

Paraguay, 21 November – 1 December 2019

Referees

AFC
1. Ebrahim Al-Mansory (UAE, 1973)
2. Suhaimi Mat Hassan (MAS, 1976)
3. Bakhtiyor Namazov (UZB, 1974, photo)
4. Shao Liang (CHN, 1979)

CAF
1. Hany Farouk (EGY, 1987)
2. Said Hachim (MAD, 1979)
3. Adil Ouchker (MAR, 1983)

CONCACAF
1. Juan Angeles (DOM, 1979)
2. Gumercindo Batista (PAN, 1980)
3. Gonzalo Carballo (SLV, 1982)

CONMEBOL
1. Gustavo Dominguez (PAR, 1978)
2. Aecio Fernandez (URU, 1983)
3. Ivo Moraes (BRA, 1977)
4. Mariano Romo (ARG, 1981)
5. Alex Valdiviezo (PER, 1979)

OFC
1. Hugo Pado (SOL, 1980)

UEFA
1. Sofien Benchabane (FRA, 1984)
2. Roman Borisov (RUS, 1981)
3. Sergio Gomes (POR, 1979)
4. Vitali Gomolko (LTU, 1989)
5. Raul Gonzalez (ESP, 1988)
6. Ingilab Mammadov (AZE, 1983)
7. Gionni Matticoli (ITA, 1975)
8. Lukasz Ostrowski (POL, 1985)

Referee Assessors
1. Lakhdar Benchabane (FRA)
2. Michele Conti (ITA)
3. Cesar Figueredo (URU)
4. Victorino Rodriguez (SLV)

Moss: The Vinyl Whistle

When I tell people that Premier League referee Jon Moss has a record shop in Headingley called ‘Vinyl Whistle’, the first reaction is “really!” followed by “great name”. The Leeds postcode, LS6, is ‘Studentsville’. Not the most obvious place for one of the country’s leading football officials to pop up with a stack of LPs and singles. But back in the late 80s and early 90s, this was Jon’s hunting ground. Like so many of us back then who wrote cheques to buy fish and chips and queued outside phone boxes to contact our girlfriends and boyfriends, Jon was a record-buying, gig-going musical nut. And his passion for music has never left him since those taste-shaping days. So Planet Football was intrigued. The part of the Venn Diagram where football referees and Velvet Underground (that’s what he would be playing when I first entered his shop) fans intersect is a small one. It was time to find out how this all came about.

“We were all sitting around as a group of referees and I said I’d been thinking about doing the record shop as music is a big part of my life so I wanted to marry the two together. I thought the name might be cheesy but, had I not been refereeing, I wouldn’t have visited so many record shops by virtue of going around the country. So it married two huge things in my life.” A look around your shop and it’s pretty clear you’re a bit of an indie fiend? “Yes, obviously I like a certain type of music and sometimes it can be hard to find that kind of music when you go into a record shop. Once that kind of music is ingrained in you, it’s hard to get out of it.” You’ve been open a couple of months now. How are things going? Is it everything you hoped it would be? “It’s our sixth week now. It’s gone really well. There are days when it’s quiet, but obviously the students coming back will make a difference. Twenty thousand students coming back to a small space, you’d hope you’d reap some of the benefits. Part of the process of being a good record shop is listening to your customers and trying to get stuff in that’s going to appeal to them. And then, after a while, you can join in the conversations. It’s like when I started refereeing, I didn’t know the first thing, but four weeks in and you can join in with the chat.” When people come in, do you get much of ‘you’re that ref of the telly? “I do get a little bit of that. Some know and others think they know you as they’ve seen you on TV and they think ‘where do I know him from?’. Leeds fans who recognise me want to talk about decisions over the weekend and because I don’t referee in Leeds it’s safe ground. It’s just nice to talk about music and football because everyone’s interested in those two things, aren’t they?” There’ve been a few football songs down the years, a fair amount of them fairly terrible, but the odd nugget. Any favourites? “I’m a Sunderland fan so the best one for me was ‘Niall Quinn’s Disco Pants’. I used to sing that on a regular basis when I was following Sunderland home and away. A rendition of that would certainly get you going. I like it when football fans take a melody from an indie classic and make it their own. There’s obviously a famous one about Leeds set to Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ which wouldn’t go down too well with our local population. But I like that kind of stuff that fans do.” 

How about your fellow referees – anyone share your taste? And do you ever try and give them a bit of a musical education? “When you’re in the changing room, if I’m fourth official, the referee who’s reffing the game is in charge of the music and we have a real range of musical tastes. Some referees don’t have any music in their dressing room. We’ve got a referee from Leicester, Kev Friend, who likes a lot of dance music. Martin Atkinson is quite old school; he likes The Jam and that kind of stuff on his playlist. Andre Marriner’s dad used to own a record store in Birmingham so Andre’s worked in a record store and he’s got a good knowledge of music. Tayls, Anthony Taylor, his taste isn’t the best I’ve got to be honest.” How about the players? Do you ever chat to them about music? “Sometimes in a break of play, like you would have a conversation at work around the photocopier, we might have a chat and music might be part of that. I know Ben Mee (Burnley defender) is a big indie fan. He’s from Manchester so he’s probably grown up with the Manchester scene. We do, in the changing rooms, hear a lot of what the players like. You hear a lot of grime so whether there are any indie fans being drowned out in the corner I don’t know. We never go in there!” Any Leeds players know of your shop? What about James Milner, who has local connections? You were his PE teacher of course. “Not sure about the Leeds players. Yes, I was a Primary School teacher and James was a Year 6 pupil of mine. I don’t know what music he likes, though, to be honest.” I also ask Jon about his ‘good day’ and ‘bad day’ records. He goes for “something with guitars in” when he’s happy. And when his day isn’t so great? “Something with guitars in again!” I always dreamt of there being a record shop in the middle of Headingley when I was a student there. But who would have thought that a Premier League ref would be the man to turn it into such an enjoyable reality?

Source: Planet Football

Concacaf League 2019 – Quarter-finals (Second Leg)

1-3 October 2019

Independiente – Deportivo Saprissa
Referee: Ismael Cornejo (SLV, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Zumba (SLV)
Assistant Referee 2: Jose Mangandi (SLV)
Fourth Official: Jaime Herrera (SLV)

Motagua – Waterhouse
Referee: Walter Lopez (GUA)
Assistant Referee 1: Gerson Lopez (GUA)
Assistant Referee 2: Rene Ochoa (GUA)
Fourth Official: Nitzar Sandoval (NCA)

AD San Carlos – Alianza FC
Referee: Mario Escobar (GUA)
Assistant Referee 1: Humberto Panjoj (GUA)
Assistant Referee 2: Nicholas Andersson (JAM)
Fourth Official: Bryan Lopez (GUA)

Comunicaciones – Olimpia
Referee: Adonai Escobedo (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: William Arrieta (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: Michael Barwegen (CAN)
Fourth Official: Luis Santander (MEX)

UEFA Youth League 2019/2020 – Domestic Champions Path (Round 1, First Leg)

2-9 October 2019

FC Minsk – Derby County
Referee: Novak Simović (SRB, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Nikola Djorović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Miloš Simović (SRB)
Fourth Official: Anton Lašuk (BLR)
Referee Observer: Alieh Čykun (BLR)

Shkendija Tirana – Sheriff Tiraspol
Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 1: Mesrop Ghazaryan (ARM)
Assistant Referee 2: Arman Ghushchyan (ARM)
Fourth Official: Erjon Bastari (ALB)
Referee Observer: Albano Janku (ALB)

Apoel FC – Qabala IK
Referee: Furkat Atazhanov (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 1: Denis Labashov (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 2: Sergey Kalachov (KAZ)
Fourth Official: Kyriákos Christodoúlou (CYP)
Referee Observer: Chrístos Nikolaidis (CYP)

FC Porto – FK Liepāja
Referee: Keith Kennedy (NIR)
Assistant Referee 1: Paul Robinson (NIR)
Assistant Referee 2: Stephen Donaldson (NIR)
Fourth Official: David Oliveira (POR)
Referee Observer: Lucílio Batista (POR)

Dynamo Kyiv – KF Shkendija
Referee: Rauf Cabarov (AZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Akif Amirali (AZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Namiq Hüseynov (AZE)
Fourth Official: Vladyslav Dorosh (UKR)
Referee Observer: Igor Șațchii (MDA)

Stade Rennais – FK Brodarac
Referee: Kai Erik Steen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Engan (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Tom Grønevik (NOR)
Fourth Official: Benjamin Lepaysant (FRA)
Referee Observer: Iain Robertson (SCO)

FC Viitorul – NK Domžale
Referee: Fyodor Zammit (MLT)
Assistant Referee 1: Duncan Sultana (MLT)
Assistant Referee 2: Theodore Zammit (MLT)
Fourth Official: Claudio Marcu (ROU)
Referee Observer: Dejan Filipović (SRB)

MTK Budapest – HŠK Zrinjski
Referee: Bram Van Driessche (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Yves De Neve (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Florian Lemaire (BEL)
Fourth Official: Bence Csonka (HUN)
Referee Observer: Attila Ábrahám (HUN)

IA Akranes – Levadia Tallinn
Referee: Kári Jóannesarson (FRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Jørleif Djurhuus (FRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Jógvan Breckmann (FRO)
Fourth Official: Kristján Ólafs (ISL)
Referee Observer: Eyjólfur Ólafsson (ISL)

Slovan Bratislava – PFC Ludogorets
Referee: Nikólas Neokléous (CYP)
Assistant Referee 1: Charálambos Charalámbous (CYP)
Assistant Referee 2: Michaíl Sotiríou (CYP)
Fourth Official: Martin Dohál (SVK)
Referee Observer: Ján Fašung (SVK)

IF Elfsborg – FC Midtjylland
Referee: Dejan Jakimovski (MKD)
Assistant Referee 1: Kushtrim Lika (MKD)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Vasilevski (MKD)
Fourth Official: Granit Maqedonci (SWE)
Referee Observer: Markus Strömbergsson (SWE)

Sogndal Fotball – FC Honka
Referee: Besfort Kasumi (KVX)
Assistant Referee 1: Edmond Zeqiri (KVX)
Assistant Referee 2: Fatmir Sekiraqa (KVX)
Fourth Official: Marius Hansen (NOR)
Referee Observer: Jouni Hyytiä (FIN)

Bohemian FC – PAOK FC
Referee: Robert Jenkins (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: James Sheils (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jordan Christopher (WAL)
Fourth Official: Mark Moynihan (IRL)
Referee Observer: Gerard Perry (IRL)

BSC Young Boys – Rangers FC
Referee: Emmanouíl Skoulás (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Konstantínos Nikolaidis (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Vasílios Nikolakákis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Sven Wolfensberger (SUI)
Referee Observer: Francesco Bianchi (SUI)

FC Astana – Maccabi Petah Tikva
Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA)
Assistant Referee 1: Raimonds Tatriks (LVA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mārtiņš Svipsts (LVA)
Fourth Official: Daniyar Sakhi (KAZ)
Referee Observer: Pavel Saliy (KAZ)

Real Zaragoza – Korona Kielce
Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Peter Allheim (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Söderkvist (SWE)
Fourth Official: Sergio Usón Rosel (ESP)
Referee Observer: Luis Medina Cantalejo (ESP)

AFC Champions League 2019 – Semi-finals (First Leg)

1-2 October 2019

Al Sadd – Al Hilal
Referee: Ahmed Al Kaf (OMA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Abu Al Amri (OMA)
Assistant Referee 2: Rashid Al Ghaithi (OMA)
Additional AR 1: Yaqoob Abdul (OMA)
Additional AR 2: Omar Al Yaquobi (OMA)
Fourth Official: Abdullah Al Jardani (OMA)

Urawa Red Diamons – Guangzhou Evergrande
Referee: Christopher Beath (AUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Ashley Beecham (AUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Anton Shchetinin (AUS)
Additional AR 1: Nawaf Shukralla (BHR)
Additional AR 2: Hettikankanamge Perera (SRI)
Fourth Official: Matthew Cream (AUS)

UEFA Europa League 2019/2020 – Group Stage (Matchday 2)

3 October 2019

Feyenoord – FC Porto
Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Igor Demeshko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Vitali Meshkov (RUS)
Referee Observer: Miroslav Liba (CZE)

FC Astana – FK Partizan
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Fredrik Klyver (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Mahbod Beigi (SWE)
Fourth Official: Martin Strömbergsson (SWE)
Referee Observer: Ichko Lozev (BUL)

BSC Young Boys – Rangers FC
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Kühr (AUT)
Fourth Official: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
Referee Observer: Kevin Azzopardi (MLT)

Ferencvárosi TC – PFC Ludogorets
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marcin Boniek (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jakub Winkler (POL)
Fourth Official: Daniel Stefański (POL)
Referee Observer: Stephen Lodge (ENG)

CSKA Moskva – Espanyol de Barcelona
Referee: Ali Palabiyik (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Serkan Olguncan (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehmet Satman (TUR)
Fourth Official: Mete Kalkavan (TUR)
Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)

FC Oleksandriya – KAA Gent
Referee: Jens Maae (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jesper Dahl (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Skytte (DEN)
Fourth Official: Jørgen Daugbjerg (DEN)
Referee Observer: Juan Fernández Marín (ESP)

AS Saint Étienne – VfL Wolfsburg
Referee: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Ian Hussin (ENG)
Fourth Official: David Coote (ENG)
Referee Observer: Goran Mihaljević (MNE)

Wolfsberger AC – AS Roma
Referee: Tiago Martins (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Luís Campos (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Pedro Mota (POR)
Fourth Official: Hugo Miguel (POR)
Referee Observer: Bo Karlsson (SWE)

Medipol Başakşehir – Borussia Mönchengladbach
Referee: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Constantine Hatzidakis (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Cook (ENG)
Fourth Official: Andrew Madley (ENG)
Referee Observer: Emil Božinovski (MKD)

SC Braga – Slovan Bratislava
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Vital Jobin (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Raffael Zeder (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Referee Observer: Draženko Kovačič (CRO)

Beşiktaş JK – Wolverhampton Wanderers
Referee: Harald Lechner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Fourth Official: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Referee Observer: Kaj Østergaard (DEN)

AZ Alkmaar – Manchester United
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (LTU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vytautas Šimkus (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Vytenis Kazlauskas (LTU)
Fourth Official: Robertas Valikonis (LTU)
Referee Observer: Sokol Jareci (ALB)

F91 Dudelange – Qarabağ FK
Referee: John Beaton (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Daniel McFarlane (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Douglas Potter (SCO)
Fourth Official: Donald Robertson (SCO)
Referee Observer: Jon Skjervold (NOR)

Sevilla FC – Apoel FC
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Johan Balder (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Joost van Zuilen (NED)
Fourth Official: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
Referee Observer: Ferenc Székely (HUN)

FC Lugano – Dynamo Kyiv
Referee: Karim Abed (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Benjamin Pagès (FRA)
Fourth Official: Florent Batta (FRA)
Referee Observer: Vlado Svilokos (CRO)

Malmö FF – FC København
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Eduard Beitinger (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Rafael Foltyn (GER)
Fourth Official: Benjamin Cortus (GER)
Referee Observer: Roberto Rosetti (ITA)

FC Krasnodar – Getafe
Referee: Ivan Bebek (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Goran Pataki (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Bojan Zobenica (CRO)
Fourth Official: Mario Zebec (CRO)
Referee Observer: Nicolae Grigorescu (ROU)

Trabzonspor – FC Basel
Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Costanzo (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Rosario Abisso (ITA)
Referee Observer: Fritz Stuchlik (AUT)

Rosenborg BK – PSV Eindhoven
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Mustafa Eyisoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Cevdet Kömürcüoğlu (TUR)
Fourth Official: Arda Kardeşler (TUR)
Referee Observer: Nikolai Ivanov (RUS)

Sporting CP – Linzer ASK
Referee: Alain Durieux (LUX)
Assistant Referee 1: Gilles Becker (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: Joaquim Da Silva (LUX)
Fourth Official: Laurent Kopriwa (LUX)
Referee Observer: Bernardino González Vázquez (ESP)

Lazio – Stade Rennais
Referee: Serhiy Boyko (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Volodymyr Volodin (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Oleksandr Voytyuk (UKR)
Fourth Official: Vitaliy Romanov (UKR)
Referee Observer: Geórgios Bíkas (GRE)

Celtic FC – CFR Cluj
Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Seidel (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Harm Osmers (GER)
Referee Observer: Martin Ingvarsson (SWE)

Vitória SC – Eintracht Frankfurt
Referee: Radu Petrescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Grigoriu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Marcel Bîrsan (ROU)
Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)

Arsenal FC – Standard de Liège
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Fedayi San (SUI)
Referee Observer: Kýros Vassáras (GRE)

UEFA Champions League 2019/2020 – Group Stage (Matchday 2)

1-2 October 2019

Real Madrid – Club Brugge
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Margaritov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Stanislav Todorov (BUL)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
AVAR: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Referee Observer: Domenico Messina (ITA)

Atalanta BC – Shakhtar Donetsk
Referee: Tobias Stieler (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mike Pickel (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Gittelmann (GER)
Fourth Official: Marco Fritz (GER)
VAR: Bastian Dankert (GER)
AVAR: Sascha Stegemann (GER)
Referee Observer: Marc Batta (FRA)

Galatasaray – Paris Saint Germain
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Paweł Sokolnicki (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Fourth Official: Tomasz Musiał (POL)
VAR: Paweł Gil (POL)
AVAR: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL)
Referee Observer: Alexandru Deaconu (ROU)

Crvena Zvezda – Olympiakós FC
Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Frédéric Haquette (FRA)
Fourth Official: Amaury Delerue (FRA)
VAR: Benoît Millot (FRA)
AVAR: Ruddy Buquet (FRA)
Referee Observer: Karen Nalbandyan (ARM)

Tottenham Hotspur – Bayern München
Referee: Clément Turpin (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA)
Fourth Official: Frank Schneider (FRA)
VAR: François Letexier (FRA)
AVAR: Jérôme Brisard (FRA)
Referee Observer: Vladimir Šajn (SVN)

Manchester City – GNK Dinamo
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Charles Schaap (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan de Vries (NED)
Fourth Official: Kevin Blom (NED)
VAR: Jochem Kamphuis (NED)
AVAR: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Referee Observer: Bertrand Layec (FRA)

Lokomotiv Moskva – Atlético de Madrid
Referee: Orel Grinfeld (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Roi Hasan (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Idan Yarkoni (ISR)
Fourth Official: Roi Reinshreiber (ISR)
VAR: João Pinheiro (POR)
AVAR: Tiago Martins (POR)
Referee Observer: Sándor Piller (HUN)

Juventus FC – Bayer Leverkusen
Referee: William Collum (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Francis Connor (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: David McGeachie (SCO)
Fourth Official: Nicolas Walsh (SCO)
VAR: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
AVAR: Paul Tierney (ENG)
Referee Observer: Oğuz Sarvan (TUR)

KRC Genk – SSC Napoli
Referee: István Kovács (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Marinescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Marius Avram (ROU)
VAR: Christian Dingert (GER)
AVAR: Tobias Welz (GER)
Referee Observer: Kóstas Kapitanís (CYP)

Slavia Praha – Borussia Dortmund
Referee: Björn Kuipers (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Fourth Official: Allard Lindhout (NED)
VAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)
AVAR: Dennis Higler (NED)
Referee Observer: Markus Nobs (SUI)

Liverpool FC – Red Bull Salzburg
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehmet Culum (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Hallberg (SWE)
Fourth Official: Kristoffer Karlsson (SWE)
VAR: Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP)
AVAR: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (ESP)
Referee Observer: Hugh Dallas (SCO)

FC Barcelona – Internazionale Milano
Referee: Damir Skomina (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jure Praprotnik (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Robert Vukan (SVN)
Fourth Official: Rade Obrenovič (SVN)
VAR: Danny Makkelie (NED)
AVAR: Slavko Vinčič (SVN)
Referee Observer: Terje Hauge (NOR)

FC Zenit – SL Benfica
Referee: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Yuste Jiménez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Alonso Fernández (ESP)
Fourth Official: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (ESP)
VAR: José María Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
AVAR: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Referee Observer: Jan Wegereef (NED)

RB Leipzig – Olympique Lyonnais
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrián Devís (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Díaz Pérez (ESP)
Fourth Official: José Munuera Montero (ESP)
VAR: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (ESP)
AVAR: Xavier Estrada Fernández (ESP)
Referee Observer: Haim Jakov (ISR)

Valencia CF – AFC Ajax
Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Giallatini (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
VAR: Marco Guida (ITA)
AVAR: Michael Fabbri (ITA)
Referee Observer: Sergei Zuev (RUS)

Lille OSC – Chelsea FC
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR)
Assistant Referee 1: Dzmitry Zhuk (BLR)
Assistant Referee 2: Alieh Maslianka (BLR)
Fourth Official: Dzianis Scharbakou (BLR)
VAR: Artur Soares Dias (POR)
AVAR: Luís Godinho (POR)
Referee Observer: Eugen Strigel (GER)

Referee Zambrano removed from FIFA List after Copa America semi-final

Without any doubt, the semi-final between Brazil and Argentina was the most controversial match of the 2019 Copa America in Brazil. Ecuadorian referee Roddy Zambrano was in the eye of the hurricane because of decisions that would have benefited the host team.

And that performance apparently had consequences. In addition to the fierce criticism that was carried out by the Argentines, the Ecuadorian Football Federation took away his status as a FIFA referee. This was demonstrated by the list of referees nominated by the Ecuadorian football to Conmebol, where Roddy Zambrano does not appear. The other name that is no longer on the list is Omar Ponce, who retired from the refereeing. Augusto Aragon and Marlon Vera were nominated instead.

It should be remembered that in the Copa America semi-final there were two specific situations that the Argentines claimed. The first, an alleged infraction of Dani Alves on Sergio Aguero in the Brazilian penalty area. The second, and by far the most controversial, was a clear push from Arthur on Otamendi. In both situations, Zambrano was not called to review by the VAR, which led to an angry reaction from Messi, who said that "everything was fixed". 

Source: BBCL

UEFA Youth League 2019/2020 – Group Stage (Matchday 2)

1-2 October 2019

Atalanta BC – Shakhtar Donetsk
Referee: Alexandru Tean (MDA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Sergiu Beșliu (MDA)
Assistant Referee 2: Anatolie Basiul (MDA)
Fourth Official: Daniele Minelli (ITA)
Referee Observer: Alfredo Trentalange (ITA)

Lokomotiv Moskva – Atlético de Madrid
Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (LVA)
Assistant Referee 1: Jevgeņijs Morozovs (LVA)
Assistant Referee 2: Denis Ševčenko (LVA)
Fourth Official: Anastasia Pustovoitova (RUS)
Referee Observer: Aleksandr Gvardis (RUS)

Real Madrid – Club Brugge
Referee: Igor Pajač (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Ivica Modrić (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Vedran Đurak (CRO)
Fourth Official: Fernando Bueno Prieto (ESP)
Referee Observer: João Ferreira (POR)

Galatasaray – Paris Saint Germain
Referee: Ivaylo Stoyanov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Georgi Todorov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Georgi Doynov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Can Cengiz (TUR)
Referee Observer: Orhan Erdemir (TUR)

Juventus FC – Bayer Leverkusen
Referee: Enea Jorgji (ALB)
Assistant Referee 1: Nuri Rrapaj (ALB)
Assistant Referee 2: Arbër Zalla (ALB)
Fourth Official: Marco Serra (ITA)
Referee Observer: Matteo Trefoloni (ITA)

Tottenham Hotspur – Bayern München
Referee: Kevin Clancy (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: David Doig (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Drew Kirkland (SCO)
Fourth Official: David Rock (ENG)
Referee Observer: Brian Lawlor (WAL)

Crvena Zvezda – Olympiakós FC
Referee: Ondřej Pechanec (CZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Petr Blažej (CZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Kamil Hájek (CZE)
Fourth Official: Lazar Lukić (SRB)
Referee Observer: Zoran Petrović (SRB)

Manchester City – GNK Dinamo
Referee: Urs Schnyder (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Köbeli (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Efe Kurnazca (SUI)
Fourth Official: Anthony Backhouse (ENG)
Referee Observer: Edward Foley (IRL)

KRC Genk – SSC Napoli
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 1: Aydyn Tasybayev (KAZ)
Assistant Referee 2: Yuriy Tikhonyuk (KAZ)
Fourth Official: Ken Vermeiren (BEL)
Referee Observer: Rien Koopman (NED)

FC Zenit – SL Benfica
Referee: Alexander Harkam (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Witschnigg (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Martin Höfler (AUT)
Fourth Official: Vasiliy Kazartsev (RUS)
UEFA Referee Observer: Nikolai Levnikov (RUS)

Slavia Praha – Borussia Dortmund
Referee: Nejc Kajtazovič (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Aleksandar Kasapovič (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Matej Vojska (SVN)
Fourth Official: Ondřej Berka (CZE)
Referee Observer: Michal Beneš (CZE)

Valencia CF – AFC Ajax
Referee: Bojan Pandzic (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Daniel Gustavsson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Mikael Hallin (SWE)
Fourth Official: Sergio Escriche Guzmán (ESP)
Referee Observer: Manuel López Fernández (ESP)

Lille OSC – Chelsea FC
Referee: Petri Viljanen (FIN)
Assistant Referee 1: Riku Vihreävuori (FIN)
Assistant Referee 2: Antti Kemppinen (FIN)
Fourth Official: Bastien Dechepy (FRA)
Referee Observer: Fredy Fautrel (FRA)

RB Leipzig – Olympique Lyonnais
Referee: Luca Barbeno (SMR)
Assistant Referee 1: Gian Ercolani (SMR)
Assistant Referee 2: Laurentiu Ilie (SMR)
Fourth Official: Alexander Sather (GER)
Referee Observer: Tomasz Mikulski (POL)

Liverpool FC – Red Bull Salzburg
Referee: Bryn Markham-Jones (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: Ashley Davis (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: Connor Fowler (WAL)
Fourth Official: Martin Coy (ENG)
Referee Observer: John Ferry (NIR)

FC Barcelona – Internazionale Milano
Referee: António Nobre (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Nuno Pereira (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Álvaro Mesquita (POR)
Fourth Official: Víctor García Verdura (ESP)
Referee Observer: David Fernández Borbalán (ESP)