FIFA World Cup referees
International football referees
FIFA World Cup referees are FIFA international referees who officiate at the FIFA World Cup matches.
World Cup Final match officials
Year | Referee | Assistant Referees | Reserve Referees and Assistant Referees | Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs |
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1930 [1] | John Langenus | Ulises Saucedo Henri Christophe | Reserve Referees since 1994 Reserve Assistant Referees since 2006 | Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs since 2018 |
1934 [2] | Ivan Eklind | Louis Baert Mihály Iváncsics | ||
1938 [3] | Georges Capdeville | Hans Wüthrich Augustin Krist | ||
1954 [4] | William Ling | Vincenzo Orlandini Sandy Griffiths | ||
1958 [5] | Maurice Guigue | Albert Dusch Juan Gardeazábal Garay | ||
1962 [6] | Nikolay Latyshev | Leo Horn Bobby Davidson | ||
1966 [7] | Gottfried Dienst | Tofiq Bahramov Karol Galba | ||
1970 [8] | Rudi Glöckner | Rudolf Scheurer Ángel Coerezza | ||
1974 [9] | Jack Taylor | Alfonso González Archundía Ramón Barreto Ruiz | ||
1978 [10] | Sergio Gonella | Ramón Barreto Ruiz Erich Linemayr | ||
1982 [11] | Arnaldo Cézar Coelho | Abraham Klein Vojtech Christov | ||
1986 [12] | Romualdo Arppi Filho | Erik Fredriksson Berny Ulloa Morera | ||
1990 [13] | Edgardo Codesal Méndez | Armando Pérez Hoyos Michał Listkiewicz | ||
1994 [14] | Sándor Puhl | Venancio Zárate Vázquez Mohammad Fanaei | Francisco Lamolina | |
1998 [15] | Said Belqola | Mark Warren Achmat Salie | Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid | |
2002 [16] | Pierluigi Collina | Leif Lindberg Philip Sharp | Hugh Dallas | |
2006 [17] | Horacio Elizondo | Darío García Rodolfo Otero | Luis Medina Cantalejo Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco | |
2010 [18] | Howard Webb | Darren Cann Michael Mullarkey | Yuichi Nishimura Toru Sagara | |
2014 [19] | Nicola Rizzoli | Renato Faverani Andrea Stefani | Carlos Vera Rodríguez Christian Lescano Guerrero | |
2018 [20] | Néstor Pitana | Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti | Björn Kuipers Erwin Zeinstra | Massimiliano Irrati Mauro Vigliano Carlos Astroza Cárdenas Danny Makkelie |
2022 [21] | Szymon Marciniak | Paweł Sokolnicki Tomasz Listkiewicz | Ismail Elfath Kathryn Nesbitt | Tomasz Kwiatkowski Juan Soto Arévalo Kyle Atkins Fernando Guerrero Ramírez Corey Parker Bastian Dankert |
By country
As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final, 33 countries have been represented in the officials body of the FIFA World Cup Final.
Country | Total | Referees | Assistant Referees | Reserve Referees | Reserve Assistant Referees | VARs | Assistant VARs |
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Argentina | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
England | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Italy | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Poland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Belgium | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Netherlands | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Spain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brazil | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czechoslovakia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ecuador | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mexico | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scotland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uruguay | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Austria | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bolivia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chile | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Colombia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Costa Rica | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iran | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Israel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Morocco | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Africa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wales | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals: | 75 | 20 | 40 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
By confederation
Confederation | Total | Referees | Assistant Referees | Reserve Referees | Reserve Assistant Referees | VARs | Assistant VARs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UEFA | 47 | 14 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
CONMEBOL | 19 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
AFC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
CONCACAF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CAF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OFC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals: | 75 | 20 | 40 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Number of matches
11 matches:
- Ravshan Irmatov (2010, 2014, 2018)
9 matches:
8 matches:
- Joël Quiniou (1986, 1990, 1994)
- Benito Archundia (2006, 2010)
- Jorge Larrionda (2006, 2010)
7 matches:
- John Langenus (1930, 1934, 1938)
- Sandy Griffiths (1950, 1954, 1958)
- Juan Gardeazábal Garay (1958, 1962, 1966)
- Ali Bujsaim (1994, 1998, 2002)
- Carlos Eugênio Simon (2002, 2006, 2010)
- Frank De Bleeckere (2006, 2010)
- Marco Antonio Rodríguez (2006, 2010, 2014)
- Björn Kuipers (2014, 2018)
- César Arturo Ramos (2018, 2022)
6 matches:
- Ivan Eklind (1934, 1938, 1950)
- Arthur Edward Ellis (1950, 1954, 1958)
- Nikolay Latyshev (1958, 1962)
- Jamal Al Sharif (1986, 1990, 1994)
- Arturo Brizio Carter (1994, 1998)
- Gamal Al-Ghandour (1998, 2002)
- Óscar Ruiz (2002, 2006, 2010)
- Roberto Rosetti (2006, 2010)
- Howard Webb (2010, 2014)
- Mark Geiger (2014, 2018)
- Sandro Ricci (2014, 2018)
- Cüneyt Çakır (2014, 2018)
- Alireza Faghani (2018, 2022)
References
- ^ "Match Report Final 1930". Archived from the original on 2009-01-30.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1934". Archived from the original on 2009-03-23.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1938". Archived from the original on 2009-01-21.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1954". Archived from the original on 2012-07-20.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1958". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1962". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1966". Archived from the original on 2009-03-25.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1970". Archived from the original on 2009-01-25.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1974". Archived from the original on 2009-01-26.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1978". Archived from the original on 2009-02-12.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1982". Archived from the original on 2009-01-30.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1986". Archived from the original on 2009-01-29.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1990". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1994". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02.
- ^ "Match Report Final 1998". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21.
- ^ "Match Report Final 2002". Archived from the original on 2009-01-30.
- ^ "Match Report Final 2006". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07.
- ^ "Match Report Final 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Match Report Final 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2014.
- ^ "Tactical Line-up" (PDF).
- ^ "FIFA Media".
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