FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifiers – CONCACAF

11 October 2011

Suriname – Dominican Republic

Referee: Paul Ward (CAN, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Joe Fletcher (CAN)
Assistant Referee 2: Darren Clark (CAN)
Fourth Official: Mauricio Navarro (CAN)

Trinidad & Tobago – Barbados
Referee: Raymond Bogle (JAM)
Assistant Referee 1: Ricardo Morgan (JAM)
Assistant Referee 2: Garnet Page (JAM)
Fourth Official: Valdin Legister (JAM)

El Salvador – Cayman Islands
Referee: Hugo Cruz Alvarado (CRC)
Assistant Referee 1: Marvin Ramirez (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: Osvaldo Luna (CRC)
Fourth Official: Walter Quesada (CRC)

Bermuda – Guyana
Referee: Rudolph Angela (ARU)
Assistant Referee 1: Egberth Paesch (ARU)
Assistant Referee 2: Oslin Kock (ARU)
Fourth Official: Kevin Morrison (JAM)

Panama – Nicaragua
Referee: Edenilson Ventura (SLV)
Assistant Referee 1: Hector Recinos (SLV)
Assistant Referee 2: Jose Mangandi (SLV)
Fourth Official: Walter Lopez (GUA)

Canada – Puerto Rico
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (GUY)
Assistant Referee 1: Dion Inniss (GUY)
Assistant Referee 2: Venton Mars (GUY)
Fourth Official: Otis James (GUY)

St. Kitts & Nevis – Santa Lucia
Referee: Adrian Skeete (BRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Adrian Goddard (BRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Mark Moses (BRB)
Fourth Official: Jeffrey Solis (CRC)

Guatemala – Belize
Referee: Jose Penaloza (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: Victor Calderon (MEX)
Assistant Referee 2: Juan Rangel (MEX)
Fourth Official: Paul Delgadillo (MEX)

Haiti – Curacao
Referee: Leon Clarke (LCA)
Assistant Referee 1: Andrew Philip (LCA)
Assistant Referee 2: Lewis Francis (LCA)
Fourth Official: Valman Bedeau (GRN)

Antigua & Barbuda – US Virgin Islands
Referee: James Matthew (SKN)
Assistant Referee 1: Graeme Browne (SKN)
Assistant Referee 2: Ike Inniss (SKN)
Fourth Official: Ignatius Baptiste (DMA)

Granada – St. Vincent & Grenadines
Referee: Bryan Willett (ATG)
Assistant Referee 1: Curtis Charles (ATG)
Assistant Referee 2: Audwin Walsh (ATG)
Fourth Official: Mark Young (GUY)

UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifiers

11 October 2011

Denmark – Portugal
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Luca Maggiani (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Andrea Stefani (ITA)
Fourth Official: Andrea De Marco (ITA)

France – Bosnia
Referee: Craig Thomson (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Francis Andrews (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Alasdair Ross (SCO)
Fourth Official: Alan Muir (SCO)

Ireland – Armenia
Referee: Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Roberto Perez Del Palomar (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Juan Yuste Jimenez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Cesar Muniz Fernandez (ESP)

Kazakhstan – Austria 
Referee: Hannes Kaasik (EST)
Assistant Referee 1: Hannes Reinvald (EST)
Assistant Referee 2: Marko Leevand (EST)
Fourth Official: Kristo Tohver (EST)

Germany – Belgium
Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Kim Thomas Haglund (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Frank Andas (NOR)
Fourth Official: Espen Berntsen (NOR)

Turkey – Azerbaijan 
Referee: Peter Rasmussen (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Henrik Sonderby (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Niels Hog (DEN)
Fourth Official: Lars Christoffersen (DEN)

Russia – Andorra 
Referee: Eli Hacmon (ISR)
Assistant Referee 1: Abed Alramili (ISR)
Assistant Referee 2: Shabtai Nahmias (ISR)
Fourth Official: Menashe Masiah (ISR)

Macedonia – Slovakia
Referee: Tony Chapron (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Emmanuel Boisdenghien (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Fredji Harchay (FRA)
Fourth Official: Fredy Fautrel (FRA)

Italy – Northern Ireland
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Javier Aguilar Rodriguez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Jose Fernandez Miranda (ESP)
Fourth Official: Carlos Clos Gomez (ESP)

Slovenia – Serbia
Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Peter Hermans (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Walter Vromans (BEL)
Fourth Official: Serge Gumienny (BEL)

Albania – Romania
Referee: Gediminas Mazeika (LTU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vytautas Simkus (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Arturas Pipiras (LTU)
Fourth Official: Sergejus Slyva (LTU)

Sweden – Netherlands
Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bahattin Duran (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Tarik Ongun (TUR)
Fourth Official: Huseyin Gocek (TUR)

Hungary – Finland
Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Fermin Martinez Ibanez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Jesus Calvo Guadamuro (ESP)
Fourth Official: Fernando Teixeira Vitienes (ESP)

Moldova – San Marino
Referee: Petur Reinert (FAR)
Assistant Referee 1: Regin Egholm (FAR)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan Lidarenda (FAR)
Fourth Official: Eiler Rasmussen (FAR)

Croatia – Latvia
Referee: Antony Gautier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Michael Annonier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Frederic Cano (FRA)
Fourth Official: Said Ennjimi (FRA)

Georgia – Greece
Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Elenito Di Liberatore (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Riccardo Di Fiore (ITA)
Fourth Official: Mauro Bergonzi (ITA)

Malta – Israel
Referee: Bruno Duarte Paixao (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Jose Silva Cardinal (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Venancio Batista Tome (POR)
Fourth Official: Joao Lopes Ferreira (POR)

Bulgaria – Wales
Referee: Pawel Gil (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Piotr Sadczuk (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Marcin Borkowski (POL)
Fourth Official: Marcin Borski (POL)

Switzerland – Montenegro
Referee: Olegario Bartolo Benquerenca (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bertino Cunha Miranda (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Joao Ferreira Dos Santos (POR)
Fourth Official: Carlos Taborda Xistra (POR)

Norway – Cyprus
Referee: William Collum (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Cryans (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Graham Chambers (SCO)
Fourth Official: Robert Madden (SCO)

Spain – Scotland
Referee: Stefan Johannesson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Stefan Wittberg (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Magnus Sjoblom (SWE)
Fourth Official: Daniel Stalhammar (SWE)

Lithuania – Czech Republic
Referee: David Fernandez Borbalan (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Raul Cabanero Martinez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Alonso Fernandez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP)

FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifiers – AFC

11 October 2011

Thailand – Saudi Arabia
Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (UZB, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Abdukhamid Rasulov (UZB)
Assistant Referee 2: Bakhadyr Kochkarov (KGZ)
Fourth Official Viktor Serazitdinov (UZB)

Korea DPR – Uzbekistan
Referee: Alireza Faghani (IRN)
Assistant Referee 1: Rasoul Fouroughi (IRN)
Assistant Referee 2: Alireza Kahouri (IRN)
Fourth Official: Yadollah Jahanbazi (IRN)

Lebanon – Kuwait

Referee: Masaaki Toma (JPN)
Assistant Referee 1: Toru Sagara (JPN)
Assistant Referee 2: Haruhiro Otsuka (JPN)
Fourth Official: Ryuji Sato (JPN)

Indonesia – Qatar
Referee: Abdul Malik Bashir (SIN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jeffrey Gek Pheng (SIN)
Assistant Referee 2: Tzu Lee (SIN)
Fourth Official: Thiam Leow (SIN)

Singapore – Jordan
Referee: Choi Myung Yong (KOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Jang Jun Mo (KOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Yang Byoung Eun (KOR)
Fourth Official: Kim Sang Woo (KOR)

Australia – Oman
Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (UZB)
Assistant Referee 1: Rafael Ilyasov (UZB)
Assistant Referee 2: Mamur Saidkasimov (UZB)
Fourth Official: Vladislav Tseytlin (UZB)

Iran – Bahrain
Referee: Peter Green (AUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Rodney Allen (AUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Hakan Anaz (AUS)
Fourth Official: Strebre Delovski (AUS)

Japan – Tajikistan
Referee: Benjamin Williams (AUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Matthew Cream (AUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Sabri Mat Daud (MAS)
Fourth Official: Minh Tri Vo (VIE)

Korea Republic – UAE
Referee: Tan Hai (CHN)
Assistant Referee 1: Mu Yuxin (CHN)
Assistant Referee 2: Su Jige (CHN)
Fourth official: Fan Qi (CHN)

China – Iraq
Referee: Saeid Mozaffari (IRN)
Assistant Referee 1: Hassan Kamranifar (IRN)
Assistant Referee 2: Davoud Rafatisajedi (IRN)
Fourth Official: Hedayat Mombini (IRN)

FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifiers – CONCACAF

7 October 2011

Cayman Islands – Suriname
Referee: Edvin Jurisevic (USA, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Chris Strickland (USA)
Assistant Referee 2: Anthony Vasoli (USA)
Fourth Official: Terry Vaughn (USA)

Bermuda – Trinidad & Tobago
Referee: Jeffrey Solis (CRC)
Assistant Referee 1: Osvaldo Luna (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: Octavio Jara (CRC)
Fourth Official: Hector Rodriguez (HON)

Dominican Republic – El Salvador
Referee: Ricardo Cerdas (CRC)
Assistant Referee 1: Warner Castro (CRC)
Assistant Referee 2: David Guzman (NCA)
Fourth Official: David Rubalcaba (CUB)

St. Vincent & Grenadines – Guatemala
Referee: Marcos Brea (CUB)
Assistant Referee 1: Jose Rodriguez (CUB)
Assistant Referee 2: Ricardo Castillo (CUB)
Fourth Official: Osiel Nunez (CUB)

Belize – Grenada
Referee: Franklin Jarquin (NCA)
Assistant Referee 1: Keytzel Corrales (NCA)
Assistant Referee 2: William Rocha (NCA)
Fourth Official: Jose Guerrero (NCA)

Barbados – Guyana
Referee: Alain Georges (HAI)
Assistant Referee 1: Patrick Claude (HAI)
Assistant Referee 2: Noel Gubonx (HAI)
Fourth Official: Guidner Edouard (HAI)

US Virgin Islands – Haiti
Referee: Kevile Holder (CAY)
Assistant Referee 1: Dwayne Ebanks (CAY)
Assistant Referee 2: Swason Owen (CAY)
Fourth Official: Kevin Thomas (JAM)

Dominica – Panama
Referee: Enrico Wijngaarde (SUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Ramon Louisville (SUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Egbert Paesch (ARU)
Fourth Official: Rudolph Angela (ARU)

Santa Lucia – Canada
Referee: Rolando Vidal (PAN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jaime Smith (PAN)
Assistant Referee 2: Juan Baines (PAN)
Fourth Official: Roberto Moreno (PAN)

Puerto Rico – St. Kitts & Nevis
Referee: Neal Brizan (TRI)
Assistant Referee 1: Dion Neil (TRI)
Assistant Referee 2: Ainsley Rochard (TRI)
Fourth Official: Lewin Purser (JAM)

Curacao – Antigua & Barbuda
Referee: Oscar Reyna (GUA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cesar Ruano (GUA)
Assistant Referee 2: Marco Diaz (GUA)
Fourth Official: Otto Barrios (GUA)

UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifiers

7 October 2011

Greece – Croatia

Referee: Howard Webb (ENG, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Peter Kirkup (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Jake Collin (ENG)
Fourth Official: Michael Dean (ENG)

Slovakia – Russia
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Fredrik Nilsson (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Mathias Klasenius (SWE)
Fourth Official: Markus Strombergsson (SWE)

Azerbaijan – Austria
Referee: Stephan Studer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Manuel Navarro (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Sandro Pozzi (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)

Turkey – Germany
Referee: Martin Atkinson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Darren Cann (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Michael Mullarkey (ENG)
Fourth Official: Stuart Attwell (ENG)

Belgium – Kazakhstan
Referee: Milorad Mazic (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristic (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Igor Radojcic (SRB)
Fourth Official: Milenko Vukadinovic (SRB)

Armenia – Macedonia
Referee: Robert Schorgenhofer (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Alain Hoxha (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Fourth Official: Gerhard Grobelnik (AUT)

Andorra – Ireland
Referee: Libor Kovarik (CZE)
Assistant Referee 1: Krystof Menkl (CZE)
Assistant Referee 2: Emil Ubias (CZE)
Fourth Official: Radek Prihoda (CZE)

Serbia – Italy
Referee: Pedro Proenca Oliveira (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Tiago Bolinhas Trigo (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Ricardo Ferreira Santos (POR)
Fourth Official: Joao Santos Capela (POR)

Northern Ireland – Estonia
Referee: Manuel Grafe (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Markus Hacker (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Guido Kleve (GER)
Fourth Official: Babak Rafati (GER)

Romania – Belarus
Referee: Alan Kelly (IRL)
Assistant Referee 1: Damien MacGraith (IRL)
Assistant Referee 2: Marc Douglas (IRL)
Fourth Official: David McKeon (IRL)

Bosnia – Luxembourg
Referee: Simon Lee Evans (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: Edward King (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: Alun Boore (WAL)
Fourth Official: Huw Jones (WAL)

France – Albania
Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Dimitrios Saraidaris (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Leonidas Vasileiadis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Anastasios Sidiripoulos (GRE)

Finland – Sweden
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Stephen Child (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Simon Beck (ENG)
Fourth Official: Andre Marriner (ENG)

Netherlands – Moldova
Referee: Matej Jug (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Andrej Kokolj (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Milan Kogej (SVN)
Fourth Official: Slavko Vincic (SVN)

Latvia – Malta
Referee: Richard Trutz (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Roman Slysko (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Erik Weiss (SVK)
Fourth Official: Mario Vlk (SVK)

Wales – Switzerland
Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Sander van Roekel (NED)
Fourth Official: Richard Liesveld (NED)

Montenegro – England
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan-Hendrik Salver (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Mike Pickel (GER)
Fourth Official: Peter Sippel (GER)

Cyprus – Denmark
Referee: Marijo Strahonja (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Sinisa Premuzaj (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Zeljko Novosel (CRO)
Fourth Official: Igor Pristovnik (CRO)

Portugal – Iceland
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Wilco Lobbert (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Berry Simons (NED)
Fourth Official: Pol van Boekel (NED)

Czech Republic – Spain
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cristiano Copelli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Nicola Nicoletti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)

Liechtenstein – Scotland
Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (NOR)
Assistant Referee 1: Dag Roger Nebben (NOR)
Assistant Referee 2: Magnus Lundberg (NOR)
Fourth Official: Tommy Skjerven (NOR)

Craciunescu returns as Head of the Romanian referees

Former FIFA Referee Ion Craciunescu, 61, will be returning as the chairman of the Romanian Referees Committee for a second period, starting on 13 October 2011.

Craciunescu was voted the world’s second-best referee in 1995, when he refereed the UEFA Champions League Final, Ajax Amsterdam – AC Milan. After his retirement, he became an international referee observer and led the Romanian Referees Committee from 2003 to 2005. The last two chairmen of the committee, Gheorghe Constantin (ex-FIFA Referee) and Vasile Avram (ex-FIFA Assistant Referee) were both accused of corruption and they are currently on trial. They were also accused of nepotism when they put their children on the FIFA List, while leading the Romanian refereeing.

The new chairman, Ion Craciunescu, is considered the most qualified former Romanian international referee to lead the committee and his top priority will be to increase the refereeing budget in order to support various development programs.

Craciunescu was the last Romanian who refereed an European final (1995 UEFA Champions League, Ajax - Milan). In 1993, he had been assigned two Asian World Cup qualifiers, Iran – Iraq and Korea Republic – Korea DPR, with heavy political implications. Although he was trusted to do those matches and managed them without any incidents, he was not selected for the 1994 World Cup because FIFA usually only allocates one spot to Eastern European referees and that one went to Sandor Puhl (HUN), who will have been appointed for the final Brazil – Italy. In 1995, when Craciunescu refereed the third place match at the Confederations Cup, Puhl was rated first and Craciunescu second in the IFFHS ranking, the only time when the top two positions were occupied by Eastern European referees.

Copa Sudamericana 2011 – Knockout Stage (First Leg)

5 October 2011

Aurora – Vasco da Gama
Referee: Georges Buckley (PER, photo)
Assistant Referee 1: Jonny Bossio (PER)
Assistant Referee 2: Jorge Yupanqui (PER)
Fourth Official: Oscar Maldonado (BOL)

Universidad Catolica – Velez Sarsfield
Referee: Dario Ubriaco (URU) 

Assistant Referee 1: Pablo Fandino (URU)
Assistant Referee 2: Marcelo Costa (URU)
Fourth Official: Eduardo Gamboa (CHI)