The UEFA Referees Committee has announced that Daniele Orsato will referee the 2020 UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Bayern München. The match will be played at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica in Lisbon on Sunday 23 August at 21:00 CET.
The 44-year-old Italian, an international referee since 2010, will be taking charge of his first major UEFA final, having been entrusted with officiating at eight matches in the UEFA Champions League this season, including Real Madrid’s round of 16 first leg against Manchester City in February.
Orsato has also refereed a quarter-final match at the current UEFA Europa League final tournament which is being played in Germany, while last season he was the fourth official for the UEFA Europa League final between Chelsea and Arsenal.
At the final in Lisbon, Orsato will be assisted by countrymen Lorenzo Manganelli and Alessandro Giallatini. The fourth official will be Ovidiu Hațegan from Romania. The video assistant referee (VAR) role has been assigned to Massimiliano Irrati and he will be helped by fellow Italian Marco Guida. Spaniards Roberto Diaz Pérez del Palomar and Alejandro Hernández Hernández complete the VAR line-up.
2020 UEFA Champions League final refereeing team
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)
Assistants: Lorenzo Manganelli, Alessandro Giallatini (both from Italy)
4th official: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)
VAR Assistant: Marco Guida (Italy)
Offside VAR: Roberto Diaz Pérez del Palomar (Spain)
VAR Support: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)
Congratulation
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DeleteCongratulations to the refereeing team!!! But i can`t understand this decision fully
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Orsato!
ReplyDeleteSo, at the end of the day there's some Spanish presence with Hernández Hernández and Díaz Pérez del Palomar as AVAR.
Congratulation to Orsato !
ReplyDeleteFor me is very good choice for this match ! Good luck on Sunday ! 👍
Congratulations!! So I was wrong with my prediction. I am happy, Orsato is a great ref and he deserves this appointment. Good luck, for sure it will be a difficult match.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to him and his team! I don't understand the committee's decision though.
ReplyDeleteI am happy too for Hategan that he got another appointment, although I'm a bit surprised to not see a more experienced name as 4th official
As I said in one of topics, if we see different referee, it will be Orsato. Congrtulate to him, he will have strong support in VAR, Iratti is one of the best in that. I absolutley understand this decision. Once more, Congrats!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy for my compatriot Orsato, congratulation. I wish all the best to the whole team. Personally I think that, avoiding a double choice, Mateu and Makkelie deserved more and that this selection seems unbalanced respect to Rocchi, who overall performed better than Orsato, but we need to respect the choice and be happy for Orsato and his team
ReplyDeleteWhat is role of VAR support?
ReplyDeleteRosetti is just a confused man. Anyways congrats to Orsato.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely expected, good luck to Orsato and his team.
ReplyDeleteAlso a very strong VAR, two best VAR teams so far will be together, this should ensure quick reaction and not a single thing missed.
Like collina like Rosetti, they're always going to favour their own. Mateu Lahoz has been robbed after a very clever year he had.
ReplyDeletePlease remember that Mateu Lahoz was selected (by Collina) for WC 2018 after that terrible performance in Italy- Sweden (he missed 3 penalties and one red card) ...
DeleteYou do not understand anything. ignorant person. Orsato deserve this final more than Lahoz.
DeleteItalian referees are final referees under the influence of Collina and Rosseti and not because they are the Best
ReplyDeleteUEFA needs renewal in the arbitration leadership. Italians left over
Another stupid person. Maybe you are Spanish and you didn't like to see Lahoz in semifinal. Always proud to be Italian
DeleteI do not insult. I'm just saying that Italy is overrated. Their referees are not the best
DeleteOkay. I respect your comment, but I don't agree at all.
DeleteRocchi reached “only” Europa League final, and Orsato right from nowhere got CL final. And Rocchi is much bigger ref in every single aspect. If Rosetti wanted to give a present to Orsato, he should appoint him for the Europa League final.
ReplyDeleteBut there's Inter in EL final...
Delete@Nole If you think Orsato came out from nowhere, Im afraid to even ask what you think of Kaspar Sjoberg (1987) appointment for Tirana-Crvena Zvezda...
Delete@Forlan This is just what I was thinking about. Martinez Munuera in Zagreb for Lokomotiva-Rapid and Sjoberg for Serbian-Albanian match. Someone in Uefa is obviously not aware of Serbian-Albanian relationships...
DeleteItalian ref are often the best in uefa with a few other countries
ReplyDeleteWell, I said the other day that we would need to know the official appointment before considering it either fair or unfair. Now we know.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is blatantly unfair to me. It is clearly a political appointment with a very difficult justification in terms of experience and performance. Orsato has only refereed UCL quarterfinals so far. Mateu Lahoz has done 3 semifinals.
But it seems that Italy will have trouble having a referee in the UCL for the foreseeable future, so Rosetti has decided to make a "preventive" appointment so it is not a so long walk in the desert for them even though the referee in question has done less merits to deserve it than other candidates. Refer to the paragraph above.
I'm not surprised to see spanish presence there. I guess it is an attempt not to upset the FA too much. But a 4th official spot and 2 additional VAR spots are no replacement for being in the middle. And it has been 15 years since the last time, the longest among the top 5 leagues. Is it a matter of quality? Yes, but of the teams who manage to qualify to the final more often than those of other leagues, not of the referees.
Is it that Rosetti&co don't think that Mateu is unable to handle a final? I don't think so either, otherwise they would have done as was done with Fernández Borbalán and Tagliavento.
Personally, I hope that next year he will have the chance. But there are other strong candidates coming along, and a good season from Atlético, Barcelona, Real Madrid or Sevilla could finally close the window for him and Del Cerro.
Oh, and good luck to Orsato! He's not guilty of anything.
DeleteI agree with you, George.
DeleteOne correction, though. It is the second longest: France has not had a referee since 1986 if I'm not wrong. But that case is quite different since there have not been many top referees from France until Turpin (maybe Lannoy)… and Turpin will get it soon, for sure.
DeleteYes, and no French referee in EL final since 2001 too.
DeleteHowever, we should also remember that 2019 Super Cup was a French appointment, worthy mention for Stéphanie Frappart!
DeleteThen, for sure Turpin in future will get both major finals.
Agreed. I wish him and his team best of luck though!
DeleteFrappart appointement in Supercup was so unfair for Turpin...
DeleteIt s so sad😂
DeleteI dare to say that being just good is good enough to get you a European final as long as you are from italy. A shame that the level of favouritism is so high in UEFA/FIFA. Unfair to Rocchi, Mateu and maybe even Makkelie.
ReplyDeleteAfter Lahoz Orsato would be me second choice for this final. Yes I agree he is not the best referee in the world but why would you say he did not deserve this final. He was always number three, then number two and now finaly number one in Italy and he is already 44. I like his style, for me his management is very good and I congratulate him and whish all the best.
ReplyDeleteReading the comments regardless who was appointed there would still be a lot of negative reactions.
Don't worry it is sure that after Orsato in this CL final there wont be any other Italian referee in a UEFA final for years and years, maybe for a decade and more.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I'm quite shocked by reading some comments, I had perceived that Orsato was not the best choice for most of the readers of the blog, but I really think that some statements are unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, we are talking about an Elite referee who has a very long experience in this role (Elite since 2015), he has a very long and big experience in one of the most difficult leagues of the world (Italian serie A), in which referees are "vivisected" for every game. He has also been appointed in some FIFA tournaments, he has a CL quarterfinal (2017-18) in his palmares and some recent very good performances in both Champions and Europa League. I make the same question made by some users in other discussions: do you remember a very poor performance by him in Europe? Maybe not... he was overall always quite good.
Yes, it is true that he hasn't the same experience as Rocchi, and he has less notable Champions League big matches, but I think it is not a scandal, as many people are trying to say, if he has been appointed for Champions League final.
As I repeated many times, for me only Mateu was ahead, but for some reasons committee didn't want to give him a final. If you exclude the Spanish, in my opiniom all the other names are at maximum at same level of Orsato if not below.
However I think that two key-reasons for astonishment are:
1) serie A is not so much followed internationally, and Orsato has been more than excellent in this league by a very long time with three coppa Italia final, very got games, only one very poor performance, and we all remember, Inter - Juventus in 2018, but all the rest, always and simply excellent.
2) for a long time he was in the shadow of Rizzoli and Rocchi, the same was for the latter before Rizzoli's retirement, this was indeed a big problem, international people couldn't know him more in detail.
The only argument you can discuss for me is palmares, and maybe he could have got further CL KO big games before this one, but for sure he is not the inexperienced man you are talking about.
About Rocchi: in this case I have no problems in admitting that seeing now Orsato getting this final but not Rocchi during his whole career, is quite a nosense, but Orsato has no faults there. Committee made this choice and I think it is not a "fool" choice.
Howver, if Orsato had managed to show the same performances he has shown in serie A for years, he would have absolutely loved this choice. But I repeat myself... he was never bad, and please, before coming to draw conclusions, watch the game...
That's everything I can say about him.
Then, about the appointment, clearly a Spanish help for VAR is a compromise because Mateu is not there. I really don't like these decisions by committee, because it looks like they want to make everybody happy. That's not possible sometimes.
And as very last remark, my first choice for CL final in this situation would have been Mateu Lahoz, I repeat that because I want you understand how much there is the need of being objective while talking about referees. This doesn't prevent me from saying that Orsato is still OK!
Forgot to say that I praise committee for having appointed two "new referees" to finals, what happened with Kuipers in all cases should never happen again. There should be always an option for a game, as result of years of technical work.
DeleteAgree with everything you said Chefren, great comment 👏🏻.
DeleteTbh I'm more shocked by the small subset of commentators here who seem to think that others disliking the committee's decision is an excuse for launching personal insults...
DeleteBy reading some comments here, it looks like an inexperienced young guy has been appointed.
ReplyDeleteOrsato is at the moment the best Italian referee by far, an Elite referee since 2015.
Honestly, I expected Mateu but Orsato was the only alternative. Makkelie has a lot of time and others referees already had this chance. It’s a shame that Rocchi had not this chance, but it’s not Orsato’s fault! Stop blaming him and just wish him all the best!
I’m really annoyed by the comments on him being appointed only because he’s Italian, I really think that moderators should take actions.
Let me put it this way: I do not think Orsato is a bad referee. It is just the fact that up to now, he has had very few top matches, not even a semi-final. This appointment is undeserved since he hasn't proven on UEFA level that he should be the one to referee this game, just like Frappart hadn't proven herself enough to be main referee for Supercup. He might be a better referee than Lahoz (some people think so), but he doesn't deserve it more based on previous appointments.
ReplyDeleteMažić never whistled Champions league semi finals but did get a final and was one of the best referees of his time...
DeleteI'm one of those who are in love with italian football (for amlost 30 years). In last 15 years I was able to watch live dozen of games from Serie A (I watch live 6-7 games per week from Serie A and Premier League).
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to say is the face that Orsato is a very good referee, better than many others from Elite. He is much better than Mateu Lahoz, Taylor, Marciniak, Turpin. Probably he was better than Rocchi. For sure is much better than actual version of Cakir (or even Skomina). Maybe only Kuipers and Brych are better than him at this moment. That's my opinion based on few thousands games (from Serie A, Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Champions League or Europa League) watched during last 15 years.
P.S anyway, Italy won't have a referee in CL final in next 6-7 years. The waiting list is long enough: Mateu Lahoz, Makkelie, Turpin, Marciniak, Hategan, Taylor, Zwayer etc.
OT: UCL 2nd QF Round appointments:
ReplyDeletePAOK (GRE) – Besiktas (TUR)
Referee: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
AR1: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
AR2: Dario Cecconi (ITA)
FO: Gianpaolo Calvarese (ITA)
Tirana (ALB) – Crvena Zvezda (SRB)
Referee: Kaspar Sjöberg (SWE)
AR1: Peter Magnusson (SWE)
AR2: Mikael Hallin (SWE)
FO: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE)
AZ Alkmaar (NED) – Viktoria Plzen (CZE)
Referee: Luís Godinho (POR)
AR1: Rui Teixeira (POR)
AR2: Luís Campos (POR)
FO: André Narciso (POR)
Qarabağ (AZE) – Sheriff Tiráspol (MDA)
Referee: Furkat Atazhanov (KAZ)
AR1: Sergey Kalachyov (KAZ)
AR2: Darkhan Tulegenov (KAZ)
FO: Grigoriy Moskovchenko (KAZ)
Celje (SVN) – Molde (NOR)
Referee: Jochem Kamphuis (NED)
AR1: Jan de Vries (NED)
AR2: Joost van Zuilen (NED)
FO: Siemen Mulder (NED)
Suduva (LTU) – Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
Referee: Rade Obrenovič (SVN)
AR1: Matej Žunič (SVN)
AR2: Grega Kordež (SVN)
FO: David Smajc (SVN)
Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO) – Rapid Wien (AUT)
Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
AR1: Roberto Alonso Fernández (ESP)
AR2: Miguel Martínez Munuera (ESP)
FO: Santiago Jaime Latre (ESP)
Ludogorets (BUL) – Midtjylland (DEN)
Referee: Denys Shurman (UKR)
AR1: Oleksandr Korniyko (UKR)
AR2: Oleksandr Zhukov (UKR)
FO: Mykola Kryvonosov (UKR)
Dinamo Brest (BLR) – Sarajevo (BIH)
Referee: Loukas Sotiriou (CYP)
AR1: Charalampos Georgiou (CYP)
AR2: Nikos Egglezou (CYP)
FO: Vasilis Dimitriou (CYP)
Legia Warszawa (POL) – Omonia (CYP)
Referee: Nathan Verboomen (BEL)
AR1: Mathias Hillaert (BEL)
AR2: Ruben Wyns (BEL)
FO: Erik Lambrechts (BEL)
CFR Cluj (ROU) – Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
Referee: António Nobre (POR)
AR1: Bruno Jesus (POR)
AR2: Nuno Pereira (POR)
FO: João Bento (POR)
Young Boys (SUI) – KÍ/Slovan Bratislava winner
Referee: Athanasios Tzilos (GRE)
AR1: Vasileios Nikolakakis (GRE)
AR2: Andreas Meintanas (GRE)
FO: Dimitrios Karantonis (GRE)
Celtic (SCO) – Ferencváros (HUN)
Referee: Allard Lindhout (NED)
AR1: Charles Schaap (NED)
AR2: Bas van Dongen (NED)
FO: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
Kaspar Sjöberg (SWE) with an Albanian / Serbian clash, I hope he is ready for that, to be honest, totally different context from Sweden, but if UEFA appointed him, they are surely right. Hopefully we will manage to get info about his performance!
DeleteUnbeliavable appointment if you ask me, I am shocked a little. This match might turn out ok, but what you want in this kind of clash is someone with more experience. It is only one game, huge stakes and huge political tension. There are many options, even within appointes referees (they could switch him and Munuera for example).
DeleteThe tension it's more in media than on the field of play. Tirana has 6 - 7 foreign players, they don't know nothing about politics of two countries. Without fans it will be not that difficult for Sjöbeg. Still I as Albanian was expected an experience referee. As per UEFA they know very well the tension between two countries. Just to remind that in Serbia - Albania was Atkinson and in Albania was Rizzoli
DeleteBrothers Martínez Munuera in action together !
ReplyDeleteThey aren't brothers !
DeleteThere would be some problems if their parents knew this info!
DeleteThey are, pita falta!
Deleteare they twins? they are almost identical
DeleteNumbers of matches in CL among the candidates for finals (who didn't have a final yet):
ReplyDeleteOrsato 30 (8 KO)
Mateu 29 (10)
Hategan 27 (5)
Marciniak 26 (8)
Turpin 25 (6)
Makkelie 22 (7)
Taylor 16 (2)
del Cerro Grande 9 (3)
Well, I think that this can say more about our previous discussion, for sure a semifinal is missing, but in terms of overall experience (big games and KO stage games) Orsato is not so much far away from Mateu. Then, about the performances everybody can have a different idea...
DeleteTwo words about Hategan as well, I wouldn't have said that in this ranking he appears before Marciniak. For sure the Romanian has received a very particular treatment by committee, being appointed only in rare cases for big games.
Yes, Hategan is around for a long time - CL debut in 2011. If we look at the CL list from 2011/12, only Brych, Cakir, Kuipers, Skomina, Collum and Hategan are still on the FIFA list - obviously four of them with CL finals. Luckily Hategan still is young enough to get bigger games in CL during the next years (+EURO and WC).
DeleteRegarding Orsato and Mateu, one also has to say that if their last appointments were switched (SF for Orsato, Final for Mateu), the statistic would have been even clearer:
Orsato 31 (9 KO)
Mateu 28 (9 KO)
Can anyone tell me something about ANTTI MUNUKKA? He is appointed for Youth league semifinal, and I have to admit he was completely out of my radar.
ReplyDeleteI did some research, and it turns out that he was a huge talent, with very high expectations. He quickly reached EL group stage, but within 3 seasons disappeared and recently is getting 1st and 2nd qualification rounds... Did he make some terrible mistakes?
Mr Munukka was not appointed for the semifinal a few days ago, maybe a late replacement?
DeleteHe is almost 40 years old already, must have been FIFA listed for 10 years, and comes from quite a small country (Finland or Estonia if I am not mistaken) I remember him back in the days as a talent with very uneven performances.
Where did you the UEL semi-final appointments? They do not show on uefa website.
DeleteThey were in the afternoon, I also saw it on uefa.com.
DeleteMunukka for Benfica-Ajax and Pavel Orel for Salzburg-Real Madrid.
Here is the appointment for the Youth League Final:
DeleteReferee
Chris Kavanagh (ENG)
Assistant referees
Daniel Richard Cook (ENG)
Sian Massey (ENG)
Fourth official
David Coote (ENG)
Munukka replaced Lawrence Visser.
DeleteMunukka was in focus by FIFA in 2012 when he officiated, among other games, Italy - Malta (quite sonorous for him at that time, FIFA referee since 2010), but unluckily after that his performances were not so good and committee stopped to follow him. He was called as additional assistant referee (when there were still mixed teams) at EURO 2013 and also in this occasion he didn't satisfy too much committee. Recently the Finnish name on focus is Mattias Gestranius.
DeleteEURO 2013 I mean Under 21 of course.
DeleteEverything was going well for him in that time but then it stopped. Regarding Kavanagh's appointment for the final - very fast development for him. This is only his second year as FIFA referee and already in first category and now Youth League final. It looks like UEFA has big plans for him... Nice to see Sian Massey appointed with him :)
DeleteThanks, it all makes sense if he is a replacement.
DeleteNice appointment for Kavanagh, Taylor and Oliver did their job very well and now Youth League final for english team. Hopefully this will encourage FA to encourage younger referees, and not insist on Dean, Moss, Atkinson etc.
Congratulations for Orsato.
ReplyDeleteOrsato will be a final referee in 2020 (Italian is 45)
Predictions for next years?
2021 - Lahoz - (he will be 44 in 2021)
2022 - Taylor (44)
2023 - Hategan (43)
2024 - Marciniak (43)
2025 - Turpin (43)
2026 - Makkelie (43)
;)
For Mateu Lahoz age limits will not count since Spain is about to abolish it for referees, and I think you can add del Cerro as candidate for something big, because he is treated by committee like the other big names.
DeleteImho next CL final without a spanish team will be whistled by Mateu Lahoz. Maybe next year. After that it's impossible to say. We can expect one or another, but we don't know how good will be the performance of each referee in next few years. Keep in mind that Hategan payed a lot for that handball in Northern Ireland- Switzerland. An unfortunate mistake and you can be out from everything ...
DeleteIt does (and should not) go by age and retirement date, but only by performance...
ReplyDeletetotally agree
DeleteA bit dull selection, he doesn't have much character to show, does he? Very dull all the time, I like characteristic refs much more, like Lahoz or A. Taylor. But good luck of course.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I guess there is a problem with most of the bloggers. It is clear that many people don't know this referee enough. The best 3 referees in Italy in 2008-2022 were three: Rizzoli, Rocchi and Orsato. Apart from Rizzoli, who we all know, the competition in the last few years was only between Rocchi and Orsato, who are for sure one of the best Italian refs of all times.
ReplyDeleteRocchi was a professional, strictly law-enforcer and quite unemotional referee. Orsato is totally the opposite of Rocchi: he has a strong personality and manages the players through communication skills and personality.
Orsato is by far the most "characteristic" referee in Europe after Lahoz, who has a unique style and is therefore called "el loco".
Compared to Orsato, Taylor is no character at all.
If you want to understand more about Orsato's style, please watch these vids made some years ago and you'll have a clear idea of what he is like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrxEAza-Rr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4idTe_Z_Gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7OJIgi6wY
thanks mate, appreciated
DeleteGlad to see Hategan get the 4th official appointment, though I would have preferred to see him get more whistles.
ReplyDeleteOT:
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Please, someone knows about a UEFA press conference with Rosetti and Orsato ?
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