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    Salary of German referees increases, match fees keep the same

    26 August, 2016 / 23 Comments

    The salary of German referees increases again this season. Top referees Deniz Aytekin and Felix Brych will earn 75.000 euro’s in the 2016-2017 season plus fees for the matches they officiate, say German media. That amount was 40.000 euro’s in 2013-2014 season, 60.000 euro’s in the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 seasons for Fifa referees from Germany. In the 2016-2017 the top refs will get 75.000 euro’s on their bank account. The basic fee, independent of the number of matches referees get, was introduced in July 2012 in Germany. The president of the German FA thinks referees should have a better environment to achieve the best. Financial stability is one of them. Former German referee boss…

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    Jan ter Harmsel

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    Salary Premier League referee can be £100,000

    22 January, 2015 / 1 Comment

    What a difference: my match fee: £16,00 versus match fee of Premier League referee: £1.000. And that’s not it, they also get £65.000 (basic salary Premier League referee per year). The Premier League referees belong to the Select Group of referees. The National Group – Football League referees – earn about 380 pounds and work on a freelance basis, says Daily Mail. The newspaper has calculated that the Football League refs will make £17,480 when they officiate 46 games per season. In comparison, the average household income in the UK is £27,000, based on stats bythe Office for National Statistics. I see such a salary gap also in The Netherlands.…

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