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New referees in Europe’s highest leagues

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European qualification matches already started and some competitions will kick-off this weekend. Here are the new referees at the national top levels.

If you miss something, let me know.

Netherlands
New in the senior referee group is Serdar Gözübüyuk, who holds many Dutch refereeing records, being the youngest referee ever officiating at the highest level in the Netherlands. Assistants Charl Schaap en Hessel Steegstra moved up to the highest level as well.
Referee Ben Haverkort retired and has already started as commercial manager at FC Groningen, a club in the highest league.

Austria
New: Dominik Ouschan
End of career: Bernhard Brugger (next December)
Relegated: –
Source:
Announcement ÖFB

Belgium
No promotions announced.
Best referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Golden Whistle), Johan Verbist (Silver Whistle), Joeri Van de Velde (Bronze Whistle).

Croatia
New: Marin Vidulin, Marin Horvat, Nikola Beatović and Hrvoje Knez
Relegated: Davor Grizelj and Jurica Mihalj
New AR’s: Djuro Jaković, Goran Loparac, Josip Orišković and Ivica Radošević
Retired AR’s: Damir Volf and Vlado Crnolatac

England
New: Jon Moss and Neil Swarbrick
Relegated: none
New AR’s: Gary Beswick, Simon Bennett, Darren Bond, Charles Breakspear, Sian Massey, Richard West
Relegated AR: Paul Thompson
AR’s stopped because of promotion as center: Andy Madley and Dean Mohareb
Source: Rate The Ref Community

France
New: Benoît Bastien, Sebastien Desiage, Benoît Millot.
Relegated: Damien Ledentu,
End of career: Stephané Bre, Bruno Coué,
Source: Announcement FFF

Germany
New: –
Relegated: Marc Seemann from Essen got to a lower level after a long period of injuries.

New AR’s: –
Relegated AR: Torsten Bauer
Retired AR: Carsten Kadach
Men’s referee of the year: Manuel Gräfe
Women’s referee of the year: Bibiana Steinhaus

Greece
Relegated: Apostolos Amparkiolis, Marios Lampropoulos
Quit: Vasileios Pamporidis, Dimitrios Kalopoulos (both FIFA referees), Georgios Stathopoulos, Nathanail Charalampidis, Michalis Tsiniaris, Stavros Mandalos.
New: Spyridon Selimos, Georgios kominis, Gerasimos Ntitsos, Georgios Daskalopoulos, Ioannis Delfakis, Dimitrios kyrkos (also on highest level from 2007 to 2010), Dimitrios Styliaras (also on highest level form 2004 to 2006).

Relegated AR: Ioannis Toumpakaris
Quit AR: Christos Baltas, Spyridon Tryfonas (FIFA A. referees), Theodoros Kotsiros
New AR: Hasan Koula, Stelios Tsolakis, Panagiotis Stathopoulos
Source: Panagiotis Koutakos from refereepress.blogspot.com
Italy
New: Daniele Doveri and Marco Guida
Relegated: Nicola Pierpaoli and Emidio Morganti
New AR’s: Giuseppe De Pinto, Alessandro Giallatini, Claudio La Rocca, Fabiano Preti, Giancarlo Rubino and Gianluca Vuoto
Relegated AR’s: Rosario Angrisani, Gianantonio Pugiotto, Stefano Ayroldi, Paolo Calcagno, Sandro Rossomando and Stefano Papi
Source: many Italian media

Norway
Promotions are in December, because they don’t have a summer break.
New: Anders Johansen and Trond Ivar Døvle
New AR’s: Jan Erik Engan, Ole Johan Lillebuen and Anders Velo

Portugal
New: Nuno Miguel Serrano Almeida, Jorge Joaquim Martins Barros Tavares and Rui Tiago Castelão Patrício
Relegated: Diogo Pereira dos Santos, Elmano Carlos Fernandes Santos, Luís Martins Catita da Silva

Scotland
New: Greg Aitken, Euan Anderson, Barry Cook and Paul Robertson
Relegated: –

Spain
New: Pedro Jesús Pérez Montero and Carlos del Cerro Grande
Relegated: Rafael Ramirez Dominguez and Antonio Rubinho Perez
Best referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (1st), Alberto Navarro Undiano Mallenco (2nd) and Fernando Teixeira Vitienes (3rd).
New AR’s: Martín García, Barranco Trejo, Zancada Lobato, Huerga Cermeño.
Statement RFEF (pdf)

Switzerland
New: in 2011 (since January) in Axpo Swiss League: Damien Carrel, Ludovic Gremaud, Adrien Jaccottet, Stephan Klossner.
Quit: Massimo Busacca (this summer)

Wales
New: Nick Pratt and Paul Fisher
Moved: Mike Jones (Eng)
Resigned: Matt Bridges
Relegated: Darren Adie and Paul Thomas
Source: confirmed by e-mail

Five minor changes on women’s international list

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The new women’s uefa referee list provides only five minor changes. The elite and first group keep the same.

The only difference with the list of earlier this year is the promotion of five referees from the Third to the Second Group. Their names are: Severine Zinch from France, Marte Soro from Norway, Monica Mularczyk from Poland, Simona Ghisletta from Switzerland and Pernilla Larsson from Sweden.

Women’s Elite Group

No changes in this group compared to first list of 2011.

Dagmar Damkova on Czech television.

1 AUT Schett Tanja 09.07.1974
2 CZE Damkova Dagmar 29.12.1974
3 ENG Ihringova Alexandra 29.01.1975
4 FIN Heikkinen (Savolainen) Kirsi 26.09.1978
5 GER Baitinger (Beck) Christine 02.03.1974
6 GER Steinhaus Bibiana 24.03.1979
7 GRE Mitsi Thalia 03.03.1980
8 HUN Gaál Gyöngyi Krisztina 29.06.1975
9 ITA Spinelli Silvia Tea 29.10.1970
10 NOR Pedersen Christina Westrum 09.04.1981
11 ROU Albon Teodora 02.12.1977
12 ROU Babadac-Ionescu Floarea Cristina 09.12.1972
13 ROU Dorcioman Cristina 07.08.1974
14 RUS Avdonchenko Natalia 05.07.1967
15 SUI Staubli Esther 03.10.1979
16 SWE Palmqvist Jenny 02.11.1969
17 UKR Monzul Kateryna 05.07.1981

Women’s First Group

No changes in this group compared to first list of 2011.

1 CZE Adamkova Jana 27.01.1978
2 ESP Quintero Siles Paloma 28.09.1971
3 GER Kunick Anja 22.01.1975
4 HUN Kulcsar Katalin 07.12.1984
5 ITA Vitulano Carina Susanna 22.07.1975
6 KAZ Medvedeva Yuliya 19.07.1972
7 LTU Kance (Tvarijonaite) Ausra 13.01.1975
8 MLT Azzopardi Farrugia Esther 12.12.1981
9 POL Radzik-Johan Karolina 24.09.1980
10 POR Braz Bastos Sandra 01.03.1978
11 SRB Kuzmanovic Gordana 08.06.1973
12 SVK Chuda Petra 22.05.1981

Women’s Second Group

Five referees got promoted to the Second Group: Severine Zinch from France, Marte Soro from Norway, Monica Mularczyk from Poland, Simona Ghisletta from Switzerland and Pernilla Larsson from Sweden.

1 ARM Grigoryan Knarik 15.05.1978
2 BEL De Boeck Carla 03.07.1966
3 BEL Martens Leen 27.02.1980
4 BUL Sinabova Aneliya 15.04.1972
5 BUL Zheleva-Terzieva Donka 02.09.1972
6 CRO Damjanovic Marija Margareta 29.10.1971
7 CRO Gurdon Basimamovic Mihaela 16.09.1971
8 CYP Karagiorgi Sofia 20.01.1981
9 DEN Norman Betina 30.11.1973
10 ENG Fearn (Rayner) Amy 20.11.1977
11 ESP Martinez Martinez Elia Maria 25.10.1979
12 FIN Lehtovaara Lina 23.06.1981
13 FRA Bonnin Sabine 02.08.1972
14 FRA Guillemin Florence 04.12.1980
15 FRA Zinck Severine 19.03.1979 *
16 GER Hussein Riem 26.07.1980
17 IRL Daly Rhona 05.02.1979
18 ISR Asulin Lilach 13.01.1972
19 LUX Zeien Laurence 11.07.1980
20 MDA Tanschi Olga 09.01.1975
21 NED De Jong Sjoukje 13.07.1972
22 NOR Østervold Ann-Helen 14.08.1967
23 NOR Soro Marte 29.04.1980 *
24 POL Mularczyk Monika 28.06.1980 *
25 RUS Mamayeva Marina 31.03.1968
26 RUS Pustovoitova Anastasia 10.02.1981
27 SCO Pirie Morag 27.06.1975
28 SUI Ghisletta Simona 11.06.1976 *
29 SVK Kovacova Zuzana 26.04.1979
30 SWE Larsson Pernilla 18.09.1976 *
31 TUR Gökcek Dilan Deniz 04.11.1976
32 TUR Tosun Ayer Hilal Tuba 10.09.1970
33 UKR Aleksakhina Natalia 23.05.1974

Women’s Third Group

No new international referees on the list. Five referees promoted from this group to the second group.

1 ARM Petrosyan Ruzanna 02.05.1976
2 ARM Stepanyan Nelli 27.09.1975
3 AUT Mitterlechner Silke 19.08.1977
4 AZE Kahrij (Muradova) Venera 22.01.1970
5 BEL Sluyts Sharon 11.05.1982
6 BIH Vlaic Ivana 15.11.1980
7 BLR Turovskaya Irina 01.08.1982
8 BUL Georgieva Kamena 18.08.1974
9 BUL Milkova Dimitrina 26.09.1984
10 CRO Budimir (Miladin) Vesna 07.02.1983
11 CZE Zadinova Olga 16.04.1985
12 ENG Fulcher-Ward Helen 01.05.1979
13 DEN Svendsen Marianne 12.09.1970
14 ESP Hernandez Hernandez Hirahi De Los Angeles 26.08.1981
15 ESP Porro Araico Mayte 15.10.1976
16 FIN Raatikainen Saija 19.05.1980
17 FIN Zukovski Ivana 06.04.1974
18 FRA Frappart Stéphanie 14.12.1983
19 GRE Boumpouri Konstantina 09.05.1981
20 GRE Kaskantiri Evgenia 06.03.1980
21 GRE Lampadariou Eleni 28.01.1979
22 HUN Urban Eszter 03.09.1984
23 ITA Farinelli Giovanna 08.08.1980
24 KAZ Gavrilova Irina 07.10.1985
25 LVA Pece Ginta 29.06.1971
26 MDA Ceban Svetlana 27.02.1985
27 NED Peeters Vivian 29.09.1981
28 NOR Larsen Monica 30.12.1971
29 POL Plaskocinska Agnieszka 23.03.1977
30 POL Zajac Justyna 03.10.1979
31 POR Correia Tavares Berta Maria 04.07.1974
32 POR Monteiro Pejapes Marcia 31.10.1978
33 ROU Bujor Cristina 01.03.1983
34 RUS Tereshchenko Irina 06.01.1973
35 SRB Jovanovic Ana 19.04.1983
36 SRB Markovic Daniela 03.05.1978
37 SVK Strpkova Zuzana 27.03.1985
38 SVN Subotic Tanja 28.03.1977
39 SWE Andersson Linn 18.01.1982
40 SWE Persson Sara 15.08.1976
41 TUR Gökcek Kadriye 03.11.1975
42 UKR Didych Inna 06.01.1975

Cakir only new Elite referee for 2011/2012 season

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The only new referee on Uefa’s Elite list for 2011/2012 season is Cüneyt Cakir. He replaces Martin Hansson who relegated two groups.

Pavel Kralovec from Czech Republic is the only new official in the Elite Development group, the new name of the Premier Development group. Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao from Portugal and Christian Balaj from Romania relegated from that category to the ‘First Group’.

Uefa has reviewed it’s referee categories, which makes it a little differnt. New ranks are: Elite, Elite Development, First, Second and Third. That means most groups got renamed, and the Premier group was removed. Referees from that category are now re-allocated to either Elite Development or First Category. Kralovec is the only one who moved up, the others all went to First.

Read more about the review of categories on Law 5 – The referee.

Full lists for Elite, Elite development, First, Second and Third available in next hour.

Elite

The only new referee in this group is Cüneyt Cakir. He replaces Martin Hansson, who moved to First Group.

1 BEL De Bleeckere Frank 01.07.1966
2 ENG Atkinson Martin 31.03.1971
3 ENG Webb Howard Melton 14.07.1971
4 ESP Undiano Mallenco Alberto 08.10.1973
5 ESP Velasco Carballo Carlos 16.03.1971
6 FRA Duhamel Laurent 10.10.1968
7 FRA Lannoy Stéphane, Laurent 18.09.1969
8 GER Brych Felix 03.08.1975
9 GER Meyer Florian 21.11.1968
10 GER Stark Wolfgang 20.11.1969
11 HUN Kassai Viktor 10.09.1975
12 ITA Rizzoli Nicola 05.10.1971
13 ITA Rocchi Gianluca 25.08.1973
14 NED Blom Bernie Raymond (Kevin) 21.02.1974
15 NED Kuipers Bjorn 28.03.1973
16 NOR Moen Svein Oddvar 22.01.1979
17 POR Bartolo Faustino Benquerença Olegario Manuel 18.10.1969
18 POR Oliveira Alves Garcia Pedro Proenca 03.11.1970
19 RUS Nikolaev Alexei 01.08.1971
20 SCO Thomson Craig Alexander 20.06.1972
21 SUI Busacca Massimo 06.02.1969
22 SVN Skomina Damir 05.08.1976
23 SWE Eriksson Jonas 28.03.1974
24 TUR Cakir Cüneyt 23.11.1976

Elite Development

The new referee in this group is Pavel Kralovec from Czech Republic. No longer in this group: Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao from Portugal and Pavel Christian Balaj from Romania. Cuneyt Cakir from Turkey promoted to the Elite group.

1 AUT Einwaller Thomas 25.04.1977
2 AUT Schörgenhofer Robert 21.02.1973
3 BEL Gumienny Serge 14.04.1972
4 CZE Kralovec Pavel 16.08.1977 *
5 ENG Clattenburg Mark 13.03.1975
6 FRA Chapron Tony 23.04.1972
7 GER Gräfe Manuel 21.09.1973
8 IRL Kelly Alan 09.04.1975
9 ITA Tagliavento Paolo 19.09.1972
10 SCO Collum William 18.01.1979
11 SWE Johannesson Stefan 22.11.1971

First (previously category 2)

Referees with a (*) relegated to the First Group. The list is further the same as last year, no one moved up or down to another level.

1 BLR Kulbakov Alexey 27.12.1979
2 BUL Todorov Stanislav 07.09.1976
3 CRO Bebek Ivan 30.05.1977 *
4 CRO Strahonja Marijo 21.08.1975
5 CYP Trattou Leontios 11.02.1973
6 CZE Kovarik Libor 23.02.1976
7 DEN Rasmussen Peter 15.10.1975
8 ENG Dean Michael Leslie 02.07.1968 *
9 ENG Marriner Andre 01.01.1971
10 ENG Probert Lee 13.08.1972
11 ESP Clos Gomez Carlos 30.06.1972
12 ESP Fernandez Borbalan David 30.05.1973
13 ESP Iturralde Gonzalez Eduardo 20.02.1967 *
14 ESP Teixeira Vitienes Fernando 28.07.1971
15 EST Kaasik Hannes 11.08.1978
16 FIN Asumaa Tony 15.09.1968
17 FRA Ennjimi Said 13.06.1973
18 FRA Fautrel Fredy 31.10.1971
19 FRA Gautier Antony 19.11.1977
20 GER Kircher Knut 02.02.1969
21 GER Weiner Michael 21.03.1969
22 GRE Kakos Anastassios 15.08.1970
23 GRE Koukoulakis Michael 25.06.1975
24 HUN Szabo Zsolt 01.01.1972
25 HUN Vad Istvan 30.05.1979
26 ISL Jakobsson Kristinn 11.06.1969 *
27 ISR Masiah Menashe 02.11.1973
28 ISR Yefet Alon 01.09.1972 *
29 ITA Banti Luca 27.03.1974
30 ITA Damato Antonio 15.08.1972
31 ITA Orsato Daniele 23.11.1975
32 LTU Mazeika Gediminas 24.03.1978
33 MKD Stavrev Aleksandar 30.03.1977
34 NED Braamhaar Eric F. J. 13.10.1966 *
35 NED Nijhuis Hendrikus S.H. Bas 12.01.1977
36 NED Van Boekel Paulus (Pol) 19.09.1975
37 NIR Courtney Mark 26.04.1972
38 NOR Hagen Tom Harald 01.04.1978
39 NOR Skjerven Tommy 25.07.1967
40 POL Borski Marcin 13.04.1973
41 POL Gil Pawel 28.06.1976
42 POL Malek Robert 15.03.1971
43 POR Duarte Paixao Bruno Miguel 18.05.1974 *
44 POR Gomes Duarte 16.01.1973
45 POR Neves Moreira De Sousa Manuel Jorge 18.06.1975
46 ROU Balaj Pavel Cristian 17.08.1971 *
47 ROU Deaconu Alexandru 03.03.1972
48 ROU Hategan Ovidiu Alin 14.07.1980
49 ROU Tudor Alexandru Dan 13.09.1971 *
50 RUS Bezborodov Vladislav 15.01.1973
51 RUS Layushkin Maxim 22.08.1972
52 SCO Norris Euan 29.10.1977
53 SRB Mažić Milorad 23.03.1973
54 SUI Kever Sascha 24.04.1975
55 SUI Studer Stephan 09.10.1975
56 SUI Zimmermann Cyril 26.01.1976
57 SVN Čeferin Darko 11.07.1968
58 SVN Jug Matej 25.09.1980
59 SWE Hansson Martin 06.04.1971 *
60 SWE Stalhammar Daniel 20.10.1974
61 SWE Strömbergsson Markus 26.04.1975
62 TUR Aydinus Firat 25.10.1973
63 TUR Göcek Hüseyin 30.11.1976
64 TUR Yildirim Bülent 01.03.1972
65 WAL Evans Simon Lee 13.10.1975

Second (previously category 3)

Two changes on this list: the name and Thomas Vejlgaard from Denmark has stopped refereeing. He couldn’t combine it with his professional life as consultant, he told on the website of the Danish FA.

1 ALB Jemini Lorenc 18.04.1974
2 ARM Amirkhanyan Arman 11.07.1979
3 AUT Drachta Oliver 15.05.1977
4 AUT Lechner Harald 30.07.1982
5 AZE Salmanov Anar 04.10.1980
6 BEL Efong Nzolo Jérome 21.09.1974
7 BEL Virant Christof 26.07.1979
8 BIH Aleckovic Emir 14.08.1979
9 BUL Genov Anton 10.10.1966
10 BUL Kostadinov Aleksandar 09.10.1979
11 BUL Yordanov Nikolay 13.01.1975
12 CRO Vucemilovic-Simunovic (Jr.) Ante 13.06.1977
13 CYP Panayi Marios 04.06.1980
14 CZE Matejek Radek 05.02.1973
15 CZE Prihoda Radek 25.03.1974
16 DEN Christoffersen Lars 14.10.1972
17 DEN Hermansen Anders 06.11.1973
18 ENG Attwell Stuart 06.10.1982
19 ESP Mateu Lahoz Antonio Miguel 12.03.1977
20 ESP Muniz Fernandez Cesar 18.05.1970
21 FIN Gestranius Mattias 07.06.1978
22 FIN Kari Petteri 05.04.1971
23 FIN Munukka Antti 03.03.1982
24 FRA Buquet Ruddy 29.01.1977
25 FRA Thual Olivier 24.07.1976
26 FRA Turpin Clément 16.05.1982
27 GER Aytekin Deniz 21.07.1978
28 GER Kinhöfer Thorsten 27.06.1968
29 GER Rafati Babak 28.05.1970
30 GER Sippel Peter 06.10.1969
31 GRE Pamporidis Vassilios 23.12.1973
32 HUN Ando-Szabo Sandor 17.08.1979
33 HUN Bognar Tamás 18.11.1978
34 HUN Fabian Mihaly 05.03.1980
35 IRL McKeon David 03.02.1972
36 ISR Liany Liran 24.05.1977
37 ITA Bergonzi Mauro 30.12.1971
38 ITA De Marco Andrea 21.05.1973
39 ITA Mazzoleni Paolo Silvio 12.06.1974
40 ITA Valeri Paolo 16.05.1978
41 KAZ Kuchin Artyom 15.12.1977
42 LUX Toussaint Albert 10.08.1976
43 LVA Sipailo Andrejs 07.01.1971
44 MDA Banari Veaceslav 01.02.1975
45 MKD Meckarovski Dimitar 04.03.1975
46 MLT Borg Marco 16.09.1971
47 MNE Radovanovic Pavle 21.08.1975
48 NED Liesveld Richard 10.05.1973
49 NIR Black Alan 18.01.1975
50 NOR Berntsen Espen 12.05.1967
51 NOR Johnsen Ken Henry 28.07.1975
52 POL Siejewicz Hubert 20.12.1974
53 POR Ribeiro Soares Dias Artur Manuel 14.07.1979
54 POR Taborda Xistra Carlos Miguel 02.01.1974
55 ROU Avram Ionut Marius 09.08.1979
56 ROU Constantin Augustus Viorel 07.07.1974
57 RUS Karasev Sergey 12.06.1979
58 RUS Sukhina Stanislav 16.08.1968
59 SCO McLean Steven 01.04.1981
60 SRB Jovanetic Boško 30.08.1973
61 SRB Stankovic Dragomir 16.02.1972
62 SVK Trutz Richard 02.08.1971
63 SVK Valasek Jan 09.03.1977
64 SWE Lerjeus Michael 18.06.1973
65 TUR Ozkahya Halis 30.05.1980
66 UKR Shvetsov Viktor 22.06.1969
67 WAL Jones Huw 22.07.1973
68 WAL Whitby Mark Steven 12.08.1973

Third (previously category 4)

The biggest loss for this list is Vladimir Pettai, a 38-year-old referee from Russia who died in a plane crash. New on the list are: Andris Treimanis from Latvia, Sergejus Slyva from Lithuania and Eika Saar from Estonia. These are not on the latest list, but according to Fifa.com Slyva is an international referee since 2007.

1 ALB Jorgji Enea 15.08.1984
2 ALB Pashaj Bardhyl 01.02.1978
3 AND Villamayor Rozados Ignasi 29.07.1972
4 ARM Baliyan Suren 26.05.1980
5 ARM Minasyan Vahan 07.03.1977
6 AUT Brugger Bernhard 25.12.1966
7 AUT Eisner Rene 02.09.1975
8 AUT Grobelnik Gerhard 10.07.1975
9 AZE Aliyev Vusal 14.09.1970
10 AZE Yusifov Fariz 28.01.1972
11 BEL Delferiere Sébastien 02.07.1981
12 BEL Dierick Christof 03.01.1979
13 BEL Wouters Luc 14.11.1969
14 BIH Pilav Elmir 23.10.1980
15 BIH Valjić Ognjen 20.09.1981
16 BLR Sevastsyanik Vital 01.08.1980
17 BLR Tsynkevich Siarhei 19.09.1976
18 BLR Vialichka Valery 12.09.1966
19 BUL Angelov Angel 10.02.1981
20 BUL Yordanov Georgi 15.12.1973
21 CRO Batinic Damir 29.10.1975
22 CRO Pristovnik Igor 23.08.1975
23 CRO Vuckov Domagoj 10.02.1976
24 CYP Anastasiou Ioannis 17.06.1980
25 CYP Stamatis Marios 10.05.1974
26 CYP Trifonos Stelios 15.09.1967
27 CZE Hrubes Roman 09.09.1973
28 CZE Zelinka Miroslav 23.02.1981
29 DEN Hansen Kenn Pii 29.05.1980
30 DEN Kehlet Jakob 05.09.1980
31 DEN Svendsen Michael 31.05.1967
32 ESP Rubinos Perez Antonio 11.06.1969
33 EST Saar Eiko 21.05.1981
34 EST Tohver Kristo 11.06.1981
35 FIN Nieminen Tero 20.05.1973
36 FRO Reinert Petur 28.02.1978
37 GEO Kharitonashvili Davit 18.02.1981
38 GEO Kvaratskhelia Levan 18.05.1979
39 GEO Silagava Lasha 27.07.1976
40 GEO Vadachkoria George 08.06.1977
41 GRE Kalopoulos Dimitrios 15.04.1970
42 GRE Sidiropoulos Anastasios 09.08.1979
43 GRE Spathas Ilias 18.02.1980
44 GRE Tritsonis Stavros 30.11.1977
45 IRL Doyle Neil 29.04.1978
46 IRL Sutton Padraigh 24.08.1977
47 ISL Arnason Thorvaldur 03.03.1982
48 ISL Hjaltalin Thoroddur 04.08.1977
49 ISL Thorisson Magnus 04.06.1970
50 ISR Hacmon Eli 22.04.1976
51 ISR Levi Meir 27.10.1968
52 KAZ Gauzer Aleksander 22.02.1975
53 KAZ Saliy Pavel 06.12.1967
54 KAZ Vishnichenko Anatoliy 20.04.1975
55 LTU Dunauskas Nerijus 26.06.1978
56 LTU Slyva Sergejus 01.10.1980
57 LUX Bindels Sven 18.05.1979
58 LUX Wilmes Luc 21.09.1968
59 LVA Direktorenko Vadims 31.01.1981
60 LVA Treimanis Andris 16.03.1985
61 MDA Satchi Igor 14.01.1972
62 MDA Sidenco Ghennadi 07.03.1973
63 MKD Spirkoski Goran 16.05.1971
64 MLT Lautier Christopher 23.11.1972
65 MLT Pisani Clayton 31.07.1978
66 MLT Sant Alan Mario 16.08.1980
67 MNE Dabanovic Nikola 18.12.1981
68 MNE Kaludjerovic Jovan 17.01.1977
69 NED Makkelie Danny Desmond 28.01.1983
70 NIR Crangle Raymond 03.07.1973
71 NIR Hunter Arnold 15.03.1979
72 NOR Hafsås Dag Vidar 26.06.1973
73 POL Marciniak Szymon 07.01.1981
74 POL Piasecki Dawid 22.02.1976
75 POL Szulc Marcin 12.06.1975
76 POR Lopes Ferreira Joao Francisco 25.09.1967
77 POR Santos Capela Joao Carlos 07.08.1974
78 ROU Kovacs Istvan 16.09.1984
79 RUS Egorov Igor 04.11.1968
80 RUS Eskov Alexey 07.09.1978
81 RUS Kazmenko Vladimir 27.09.1975

83 SCO Madden Robert 25.10.1978
84 SCO Muir Alan 10.05.1975
85 SMR Podeschi Stefano 31.08.1967
86 SMR Rossi Gabriele 26.03.1966
87 SRB Glodovic Vlado 08.11.1976
88 SRB Vukadinovic Milenko 28.02.1971
89 SUI Bieri Alain 13.03.1979
90 SUI Hänni Nikolaj 02.03.1976
91 SUI Laperriere Jérôme 23.10.1969
92 SVK Kruzliak Ivan 24.03.1984
93 SVK Vlk Mario 21.09.1974
94 SVK Vnuk Vladimir 23.11.1978
95 SVN Vinčič Slavko 25.11.1979
96 SWE Strömbergsson Martin 01.04.1977
97 TUR Özkalfa Tolga 22.02.1977
98 TUR Yildirim Yunus 23.02.1970
99 UKR Aranovskyi Ievgenii 13.10.1976
100 UKR Boiko Sergii 30.06.1977
101 UKR Dankovskyy Sergiy 11.10.1978
102 UKR Derdo Oleksandr 03.02.1979
103 UKR Mozharovskyy Yuriy 02.10.1976
104 UKR Shandor Andriy 05.01.1966

Uefa released new futsal international referee list

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Uefa has released the new international futsal’s referee list.

Check the lists below:

Premier
Most referees on the highest futsal refereeing level come from Spain and Croatia (2 per country).

Category two
Youngest referee on the list is Gerald Blauernfeind from Austria with 29 years. Oldest referee is Francisco Jose Seca Parrinha from Portugal who is 44 years old.

Category three
A huge list with 54 lists.

Check the men’s international football list here
Check the women’s international football list here

Uefa released new women’s international referee listv

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Uefa has released the new international women’s referee list.

Check the lists below:

Elite
With three referees (of 18) who come from Romania. The youngest referees are Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine) and Christina Westrum Pedersen (Norway) with 29 years old.

Premier
Referees are all from different countries. Oldest referee with 43 years old is Ann-Helen Østervold from Norway.

Category two
With the highest ranked referee from The Netherlands, Sjoukje de Jong. Katalin Kulcsar from Hungary is only 25 years old.

Category three
With three Greece referees.

More on women’s refereeing in the article about the U20 Women’s World Cup in Germany earlier this month.

New international referee list: Blom and Rocchi Elite

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Uefa has released the new international referee list to the Dutch Referee blog. Kevin Blom (NED) and Gianluca Rocchi (ITA) are new on the Elite list of European referees.

They replace Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez, who reached the age limit, and Tom Henning Øvrebø, who quits international refereeing after he was not picked for the World Cup in South Africa. He was non-eligible for Euro 2012 due to Uefa’s age limit of 45.

Update Uefa: “Fifa will replace Rosetti in January for another Italian referee. Uefa has no country quota’s, so everyone could replace him.” On Thursday 8th of July Roberto Rosetti announced that he stops refereeing in favour of an administrative role in the Serie B (2nd level in Italy) with the Association of Italian Referees. He was still age-eligible for Euro 2012 and on Uefa’s Elite list.

Elite list
Terje Hauge (05/10/1965) Norwegian Football Association
Alain Hamer (10/12/1965) Luxembourg Football Federation
Claus Bo Larsen (28/10/1965) Danish Football Association
Florian Meyer (21/11/1968) German Football Association
Laurent Duhamel (10/10/1968) French Football Federation
Frank De Bleeckere (01/07/1966) Royal Belgian Football Association
Massimo Busacca (06/02/1969) Swiss Football Association
Gianluca Rocchi (25/08/1973) Italian Football Federation
Wolfgang Stark (20/11/1969) German Football Association
Olegaria Manuel Bartolo Faustino Benquerença (18/10/1969) Portuguese Football Federation
Martin Hansson (06/04/1971) Swedish Football Association
Viktor Kassai (10/09/1975) Hungarian Football Federation
Alberto Undiano Mallenco (08/10/1973) Spanish Football Federation
Damir Skomina Damir (05/08/1976) Football Association of Slovenia
Jonas Eriksson (28/03/1974) Swedish Football Association
Felix Brych Felix (03/08/1975) German Football Association
Stéphane Laurent Lannoy (18/09/1969) French Football Federation
Craig Alexander Thomson (20/06/1972) The Scottish Football Association
Pieter Pieter (13/03/1967) Royal Netherlands Football Association
Pedro Proença Oliveira Alves Garcia (03/11/1970) Portuguese Football Federation
Nicola Rizzoli (05/10/1971) Italian Football Federation
Howard Melton Webb (14/07/1971) The Football Association
Bernie Raymond (Kevin) Blom (21/02/1974) Royal Netherlands Football Association
Bjorn Kuipers (28/03/1973) Royal Netherlands Football Association
Martin Atkinson (31/03/1971) The Football Association

Premier
Eric Braamhaar (13/10/1966) Royal Dutch Football Association
Michael Dean (02/07/1968) The Football Association
Kristinn Jakobsson (11/06/1969) Football Association of Iceland
Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez (20/02/1967) Spanish Football Federation
Darko Ceferin (11/07/1968) Football Association of Slovenia
Pavel Kralovec (16/08/1977) Football Association of the Czech Republic
Alon Yefet (01/09/1972) The Israel Football Association
Alexandru Dan Tudor (13/09/1971) Romanian Football Federation

New in this group are Kralovec, Yefet and Tudor. They promoted from the Premier Development list.

Out are: Lucilio Cardoso Cortez Batista (POR; age), Matteo Simone Trefoloni (ITA; stopped his international career), Kircher (GER; relegated to cat. 2), Anton Genov (relegated to cat. 2).

The latter has not officiated in 2010 for Uefa yet, because there were ‘obvious irregular betting patterns’ during his matches. Genov was not punished and now his status has been put on ‘active’ it seems he can officiate international matches in his last year as football referee. Genov is age-eligible untill the end of 2011. Read more about the disciplinary actions take by Uefa to other referees in an interview with Uefa’s general secretary Gianni Infantino.

Premier Development
Thomas Einwaller (25-04-1977) Austrian Football Association
Serge Gumienny (14-04-1972) Royal Belgian Football Association
Ivan Bebek (30-05-1977) Croatian Football Federation
Carlos Velasco Carballo (16-03-1971) Spanish Football Federation
Tony Chapron (23-04-1972) French Football Federation
Manuel Gräfe (21-09-1973) German Football Federation
Alan Kelly (09-04-1975) The Football Association of Ireland
Svein Oddvar Moen (22-01-1979) Norwegian Football Association
Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao (18-05-1974) Portugese Football Federation
Pavel Cristian Balaj (17-08-1971) Romanian Football Federation
Alexei Nikolaev (01-08-1971) Football Union of Russia
William Collum (18-01-1979) The Scottinh Football Association
Stefan Johannesson (22-11-1971) Swedish Football Association
Cüneyt Cakir (23-11-1976) Turkish Football Association

Promoted to this group: Manuel Gräfe.
Out of this group: Claudio Circhetta (SWI, relegated to cat. 2), Kralovec, Yefet and Tudor (all promoted to PD) and Blom and Rocchi (promoted to Elite).

Category 2
Not many changes in this group.
New are: Kircher, Genov and Circhetta (relegated from higher groups) and Georgis Daloukas (11.07.1978) from Greece and Marijo Strahonja (21.08.1975) from Croatia (both promoted from cat. 3).
Out of cat. 2: Oleg Oriekhov from Ukraine (due to match-fixing and corruption) and Seçuk Dereli from Turkey (stopped his international career).

Update: 10 referees available for final

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The Fifa has reduced the referee squad in South Africa from 29 to 19 referees. Here’s the list with referees who are still in the tournament (and between brackets who are sent home).

Update: Only 10 referees are still eligible for the final.

Asia
Irmatov
Nishimura
(Mohd Salleh is sent home before QF; Al Ghamdi before semi-finals)

Africa
Damon
(Coulibaly is sent home before QF; Maillet before semi-finals)

North America
Archundia
Rodriguez
(Aguilar is sent home before QF; Batres before semi-finals)

South America
Pozo
Ruiz
(Vazquez and Larrionda are sent home before QF; Baldassi and Simon before semi-finals)

Oceania
No referee any more
(O’Learry is sent home before QF; Hester before semi-finals)

Europe
De Bleeckere
Kassai
Webb
(Busacca, Rosetti, Lannoy and Hansson are sent home before QF; Stark, Undiano and Benquerenca before semi-finals)

Do you agree that Busacca has to fly back to Switzerland? What’s your opinion of the new Fifa list? And who’s your favourite to officiate in the final?