Premier League history was made at Southampton on Wednesday, January 4 when Bhupinder Singh Gill became the first Sikh-Punjabi to serve as an assistant referee. Singh Gill, who ran the line in Nottingham Forest’s win at St Mary’s Stadium, now hopes to inspire young and aspiring Black, Asian and Minority …
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With just over two few weeks to go before the opening match of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (“CHAN”), CAF has today released the full list of match officials for the competition. The list includes 19 referees, 21 assistant referees and 12 video assistant referees representing 32 of CAF’s Member …
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Polish referee Szymon Marciniak has been appointed to take charge of the 2022 FIFA World Cup final between France and Argentina at Lusail Stadium in Qatar on Sunday. The 41-year-old official from Plock, who has been an international referee since 2011, will be accompanied by assistant referees and compatriots Paweł …
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Match officials from eight Oceania Football Confederation Member Associations will control matches at January’s OFC U-17 Championship 2023 in Fiji. Among the 20-strong group selected are female assistant referees Natalia Lumukana and Stephanie Minan, who in 2021 were among five Oceania match officials shortlisted to officiate at the 2023 FIFA …
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Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the body that manages the Premier League match officials, has confirmed a number of appointments to its Leadership Team. In addition to Howard Webb arriving as Chief Refereeing Officer during this international break, Danielle Every, Dr Steve McNally and Dr Wayne Allison have all …
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Fourteen Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) officials took the opportunity to upskill in Sydney on November 25/26. Football Federation Australia facilitated a VAR course for them, designed to show how the video assistant referee system works. The course was run by Mathew Cheeseman, Edward Lennie and Renae Coghill of the FFA. …
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At the FIFA referees media day prior to the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar, the Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina, gave notice that time lost due to different specific events that transpire during matches would be compensated for. The aim of this move …
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For quite a few years, the football associations in the Nordic countries have cooperated in a referee exchange programme. As a part of this cooperation, a female referee from another Nordic country came to the Faroe Islands for the first time to referee a match in the women’s top flight. …
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During his days as an active referee, Michael Andrews was a leading name in the circuit, who rose to become a FIFA referee. Currently the Chairman of the AIFF Referees Committee, Mr. Andrews has his task cut out – to take Indian refereeing to the next level of professionalism. A …
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The Fiji Football Association (FFA) has bolstered their match official ranks following an OFC Level 1 Referees Course held last week, which saw 24 new referees become qualified. The course was run over three days, with FFA Referees Director Rakesh Varman particularly pleased to see the number of young people …
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