Thursday 25 March 2021

2021/22 FIFA WC European Qualifiers - Referee Appointments MD1 (25 March 2021)

Referee appointments for 2021-22 FIFA WC European Qualifiers Matchday 1, games to be played on 25 March 2021.    


Group C
18:00 CET - Sofia (Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski)
BULGARIA - SWITZERLAND 
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (MNE)
Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Đukić (MNE)
Assistant Referee 2: Vladan Todorović (MNE)
Fourth Official: Milovan Milačić (MNE)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Fritz Stuchlik (AUT)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Igor Radojčić (SRB)

Group F
18:00 CET - Tel Aviv (Bloomfield Stadium)
ISRAEL - DENMARK 
Referee: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Harry Lennard (ENG)
Fourth Official: Peter Bankes (ENG)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Costas Kapitanis (CYP) 
FIFA Match Commissioner: Jaroslav Dudl (CZE)

Group B
20:45 CET - Solna (Friends Arena)
SWEDEN - GEORGIA 
Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Aurélien Berthomieu (FRA)
Fourth Official:  Benoît Millot (FRA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Nikolai Levnikov (RUS)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Styrbjörn Oskarsson (FIN)

Group B
20:45 CET - Granada (Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes)
SPAIN - GREECE
Referee: Marco Guida (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Ciro Carbone (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Fabio Maresca (ITA) 
FIFA Referee Assessor: Markus Nobs (SUI)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Roland Tis (BEL)

Group C
20:45 CET - Parma (Stadio Ennio Tardini)
ITALY - NORTHERN IRELAND
Referee: Ali Palabıyık (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Kerem Ersoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Serkan Olguncan (TUR)
Fourth Official: Halis Özkahya (TUR)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Sándor Piller (HUN)
FIFA Match Commissioner: David McDowell (SVN)

Group F
20:45 CET - Chișinău (Stadionul Zimbru)
MOLDOVA - FAROE ISLANDS
Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: Lewis Ross Edwards (WAL) 
Assistant Referee 2:  Ian Bird (WAL) 
Fourth Official: Thomas Gary Owen (WAL) 
FIFA Referee Assessor: Aleh Chykun (BLR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Natallia Varabyova (BLR)

Group F
20:45 CET - Glasgow (Hampden Park)
SCOTLAND - AUSTRIA 
Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Diego Barbero Sevilla (ESP) 
Fourth Official: José María Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Gerard Perry (IRL)
FIFA Match Commissioner: David Pugh (ENG)

Group I
20:45 CET - Andorra La Vella (Estadi Nacional)
ANDORRA - ALBANIA
Referee: Volen Valentinov Chinkov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Deniz Pirinov Sokolov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Petar Nikolov Dzhuganski (BUL)
Fourth Official: Dragomir Draganov (BUL)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Jens Larsen (DEN)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Jeroen Roest (NED)

Group I
20:45 CET - Budapest (Puskás Aréna )
HUNGARY - POLAND
Referee: Felix Brych (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mark Borsch (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER) 
Fourth Official: Marco Fritz (GER) 
FIFA Referee Assessor: Shmuel Shteif (ISR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Lennart Vestervall (SWE)

Group I
20:45 CET - London (Wembley Stadium)
ENGLAND - SAN MARINO
Referee: Kirill Levnikov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Egor Bolkhovitin (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Andrei Vereteshkin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS) 
FIFA Referee Assessor: Mark Whitby (WAL)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Garry O'Hagan (SCO)

Group J
20:45 CET - Vaduz (Rheinpark Stadion) 
LIECHTENSTEIN - ARMENIA 
Referee: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Staudinger (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Roland Riedel (AUT)
Fourth Official: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Stefano Podeschi (SMR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Jan Willem Van Dop (NED)

Group J
20:45 CET - Bucharest (Arena Naţională)
ROMANIA - NORTH MACEDONIA 
Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: André Campos (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Bruno Rodrigues (POR)
Fourth Official: António Nobre (POR)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) 
FIFA Match Commissioner: Philippe Prudhon (FRA)

Group J
20:45 CET - Duisburg (MSV Arena)
GERMANY - ICELAND 
Referee: Srdjan Jovanović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Uroš Stojković (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Milan Mihajlović (SRB)
Fourth Official: Novak Simović (SRB)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Tomasz Mikulski (POL)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Eugène Westerink (NED)

55 comments:

  1. For WC qualifiers all referee team (AR2 and 4th official too) need to be in FIFA list?

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    1. Yes, all four members must be FIFA listed. In case of no disponibility from a country, a FIFA official from another country is sent.

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  2. At least in these matches we'll see the referees wearing their FIFA badges instead of 'UEFA match official'.

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    1. I also wonder if referees will wear Macron (UEFA) or Adidas (FIFA) kits

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    2. In the Concacaf Olympic qualifiers, referees are wearing adidas (FIFA) instead of Savi (Concacaf).

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    3. Thank god for that. FIFA badges over UEFA badges all the way.

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  3. IMO, Sweden-Georgia is game for 1st Clash referee, No Elite

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    1. This is the return for Bastien after EL MD6 facts.
      Indeed one could also underline the observer, Levnikov, former committee member, so important in a way. I wouldn't say that he is in danger for a demotion, but for sure he must convince committee in order to keep the Elite status.

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    2. I am not surprised at all to see Bastien in this game.

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    3. However, I am surprised to see Brych in Hungary-Poland

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    4. Poland and Hungary will compete for the second place (England most likely the winner of the group), so Brych is no surprise to me.

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  4. Someone said last week, on this blog, that Russian referees cannot be appointed to matches in England due to visa issues. Now I see that Levnikov is appointed to the England match in London. So, what is the truth about Russian refereeing in England?

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  5. Anyone know why Vladislav Bezborodov (RUS) has not continued to have customary designations. I think that he had a good performance in Euro Under...

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  6. Kavanagh disappeared by a long time in UEFA?

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    1. He got replaced as ref by Madley, the fourth official a week or two back, and has not been appointed since, as far as I know of. I think it's covid related, so that might well be why. I haven't seen any articles to back it up though.

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    2. Believe Chris Kavanagh is suffering from Covid. Had to isolate recently. Pawson is back after a period. Give Coote, Madley and Bankes a chance.

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    3. Yes Kavanagh's absence is covid related he's been replaced by the scheduled FO in his last two League games

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  7. https://streamja.com/NN6Jb

    I checked now the missed offside by AR in France - Ukraine.
    This is not acceptable by an assistant referee at this level, also, after the ball comes to attacker in offside, he doesn't follow the second last defender with a very weird positioning... full black out.

    Do you know the exact minutes of penalty appeals in first half?

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    1. 23' Penalty appeal by France.
      https://streamja.com/9jmdJ
      Strictly to book, this is indeed penalty.
      Keeper goes for the ball, but he doesn't manage to play it and he hits opponent. The reasons for no-whistle by Stieler in my opinion are the fact that it was keeper (this shouldn't count at all, but we know...) and also the intensity of the challenge, one can't exclude that attacker wanted to use that situation for a penalty. But these are arguments just to find explanations, basic decision in this case in my opinion sohuld be penalty. It would have been very interesting to know, in case of VAR in the game, to see the final decision.

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    2. We can see that referees are waiting for VAR, they are used to it now but when there is no VAR they seem to be kind of lost when decisions like this comes up.

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    3. Chefren or other person, can find at the beginning of 2nd half (I don’t remember precisely the minute) a penalty appeal for Ukraine, pls.

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    4. IMO the missed offside by AR Gittelmann isn't as disastrous as Chefren states. However, there is no doubt that it is a major mistake and mustn't happen.
      Gittelmann is normally a very good AR in domestic matches (and also in UCL/UEL, I think)

      Re. the possible penalty it is very difficult for me.
      I agree that a penalty would be definetly supportable, nevertheless, the attacker seems to exaggerate the contact a bit and the falling looks quite extraordinary.
      I wouldn't call it a big mistake. I think, VAR wouldn't intervene here.

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  8. GER-ISL
    First half 2-0

    Very calm match without interesting situations, except AR1 who had a lot of job (offside call 15', onside calls: 2' GER first goal, 4', 17', 23', 37').
    In 2nd half we can expect a lot of job for AR2.

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  9. SCO-AUT 55' Clear penalty missed by Del Cerro Grande

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  10. Del Cerro grande is all over the place. Very poor game

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  11. Stonewall penalty missed my Del Cerro Grande

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  12. How on earth does a referee look at a defender with his arms around an attacker and then decide to wave away the penalty claim?

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    1. The Scotland penalty claim https://streamja.com/wa45z

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    2. Wow, IMO a clear PK. Defender holds the attacker with w hands and "wrestles" him to the ground.

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  13. https://www.gsoccer.xyz/2021/03/spain-vs-greece.html?m=2

    Interesting situation in Spain-Greece, pk whistled which lead to goal for 1:1.

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    1. And now in the added time 2 mistakes by the same AR, indicating that the ball left the pitch, which was not the case. Both time Spain had the ball.

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    2. For me Guida showed again that he lacks something in international big matches. In the international matches ive seen from him i miss something. Maybe i miss the personality needed to be a Elite ref... For me he wasnt bad but he surely wasnt great either.

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    3. Make it 3, he gave a wrong offside in a Spain penalty appeal (which was not enough for me anyway, but that AR made 3 significant mistakes in a short period of time).

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    4. Re. penalts:
      IMO it's s penalty, well seen.
      The defender hits the attacker straight at the leg.

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    5. I agree with anonymous.

      Guida was quite good in the first half but made some easy smaller mistakes in the 2nd half.

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  14. Card happy Del Cerro Grande

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  15. Fantastic decision by AR2 at Hampden to allow Scotland's second equaliser

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  16. Onside decision by the AR for Scotland's 2nd goal was outstanding. I thought it was off in real time, and thought it was off with the replay. Only with the screen frozen did I see it was on

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  17. As expected, quite solid game from Brych in HUN-POL. However, he decided not to give 2nd yellow card to HUN5 for SPA in 90+2 and after a minute, decided to give 2nd yellow to the same player for very, very soft challenge (judged as reckless).

    All in all, it didn't have any influence on the game. Apart from that, good control, acceptance, no controversies. Convincing performance.

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    1. I guess it was a product of all his fouls in the second half that led to that second yellow in overtime. One could indeed argue that he should have been sent off earlier.

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    2. Lewandowski was surely fouled before Hungary's 2nd goal. Somebody has a video?

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  18. IMO if you call that PK for Greece, it should have been a RC for Íñigo Martínez. That point of contact

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    1. Pont of contact is definitely a RC. But what about intensity of the contact and the fact the defender pulled his leg back? Those facts make me support YC decision? Thanks

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  19. GERMANY-ICELAND
    2nd half

    Jovanovic correctly showed 3 YCs (2 for reckless start, one for SPA). Good foul detection.
    Very good onside call by AR2 52'.


    Crucial moment: 55' GER 3rd goal

    After the reckless start of the Icelandic defender, Jovanovic gave the advantage to Germany. After that, the German striker shot from 18 meters and scored a goal. One German striker was in offside position (13m from the goal) but he did not affect the goalkeeper. Excellent decision by AR2 Mihajlovic and Jovanovic. Of course, Jovanovic showed YC to defender who made reckless start before 3rd goal.

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    1. Did you mean reckless foul? :)

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    2. For me it's offside for germany's 3rd, becuase Havertz is in the line of vision of the GK. But I find these hard to call and don't know exactly what UEFA (and FIFA) expect.

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    3. Yes, I mean reckless foul.:)

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    4. IMO Havertz is NOT offside, the keeper had a clear view, Havertz just a half meter away from that line.

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