Thursday, 29 August 2024

2024/25 UEFA Europa League Play-offs (Second Legs) - Referee Appointments

Referee appointments for the play-offs of 2024/25 UEFA Europa League, second legs.

Harm Osmers GER will referee Elfsborg - Molde


Thursday 29 August 2024

19:00 CET - Stadionul Zimbru, Chişinău
FC Petrocub Hîncești (MDA) - PFK Ludogorets (BUL) 
Referee: Sascha Stegemann GER 
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Achmüller GER
Assistant Referee 2: Christof Günsch GE
Fourth Official: Mrtin Petersen GER
Video Assistant Referee: Benjamin Brand GER 
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Riem Hussein GER 
UEFA Referee Observer: Jørn West Larsen DEN
UEFA Delegate: Attila Tömo HU

19:00 CET - GSP, Nicosia 
APOEL (CYP) - RFS (LVA) 
Referee: Matej Jug SVN 
Assistant Referee 1: Matej Žunič SVN
Assistant Referee 2: Manuel Vidali SVN 
Fourth Official: David Šmajc SVN
Video Assistant Referee: Alen Borošak SVN
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Dragoslav Perič SVN
UEFA Referee Observer: Fredy Fautrel FRA
UEFA Delegate: Jirí Novák CZE

19:00 CET - Borås Arena, Borås 
IF Elfsborg (SWE)  - Molde FK (NOR) 
Referee: Harm Osmers GER 
Assistant Referee 1: Dominik Schaal GER
Assistant Referee 2: Eduard Beitinger GER
Fourth Official: Florian Badstübner GER
Video Assistant Referee: Sören Storks GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Patrick Hanslbauer GER
UEFA Referee Observer: David Fernández Borbalán ESP
UEFA Delegate: Virgar Hvidbro FRO

20:00 CET - RSC Anderlecht Stadium, Brussels
RSC Anderlecht (BEL)  - FK Dinamo Minsk (BLR)  
Referee: Nikola Dabanović MNE
Assistant Referee 1: Vladan Todorović MNE
Assistant Referee 2:  Srđan Jovanovic MNE
Fourth Official: Miloš Bošković MNE
Video Assistant Referee: Tomasz Kwiatkowski POL
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Piotr Lasyk POL
UEFA Referee Observer: Jan W. Wegereef NED
UEFA Delegate: Lambrini Dimitriou GRE

20:00 CET - Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam
AFC Ajax (NED) - Jagiellonia Białystok (POL) 
Referee: Maurizio Mariani ITA
Assistant Referee 1: Daniele Bindoni ITA
Assistant Referee 2: Alberto Tegoni ITA
Fourth Official: Antonio Giua ITA 
Video Assistant Referee: Daniele Chiffi ITA
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Matteo Gariglio ITA 
UEFA Referee Observer: Itchko Lozev BUL
UEFA Delegate: Rudolf Řepka CZE

20:00 CET - Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul
Beşiktaş JK (TUR) - FC Lugano (SUI) 
Referee: Radu Petrescu ROU
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Ghinguleac ROU
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Mihail Grigoriu ROU
Fourth Official: Marcel Birsan ROU
Video Assistant Referee: Cătălin Popa ROU
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Andrei Chivulete ROU
UEFA Referee Observer: William Young SCO
UEFA Delegate: Amil Gerina MNE

20:30 CET - Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 
FCSB (ROU) - LASK (AUT) 
Referee: Felix Zwayer GER
Assistant Referee 1: Robert Kempter GER
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Dietz GER
Fourth Official: Sven Jablonski GER
Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Johann Pfeifer GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Martin Ingvarsson SWE 
UEFA Delegate: Vilmos Szabó HUN

20:45 CET - Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh
Heart of Midlothian FC (SCO) - FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) 
Referee: Georgi Kabakov BUL 
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Margaritov BUL 
Assistant Referee 2: Diyan Valkov BUL
Fourth Official: Volen Chinkov BUL
Video Assistant Referee: Dragomir Draganov BUL
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Vasimir El-Hatib BUL
UEFA Referee Observer: Claus Bo Larsen DEN 
UEFA Delegate: Loukas Siotropos GRE

21:00 CET - TSC Arena, Bačka Topola
TSC Bačka Topola (SRB) - Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) 
Referee: João Pinheiro POR
Assistant Referee 1: Bruno Jesus POR
Assistant Referee 2: Luciano Maia POR 
Fourth Official: João Gonçalves POR
Video Assistant Referee: Helder Malheiro POR
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Gustavo Correia POR
UEFA Referee Observer:  Bernardino González Vázquez ESP
UEFA Delegate: Alexander Aleinik BLR

21:00 CET -  Tallaght Stadium, Dublin
Shamrock Rovers FC (IRL) - PAOK (GRE) 
Referee: Donatas Rumšas LTU
Assistant Referee 1: Aleksandr Radiuš LTU
Assistant Referee 2: Dovydas Sužiedėlis LTU
Fourth Official: Robertas Valikonis LTU
Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel NED
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jochem Kamphuis NED
UEFA Referee Observer: Jon Skjervold NOR
UEFA Delegate: Eugène Westerink NED

21:00 CET - Gradski Stadion Banja Luka, Banja Luka
FK Borac Banja Luka (BIH) - Ferencvárosi TC (HUN) 
Referee: Erik Lambrechts BEL
Assistant Referee 1: Jo de Weirdt BEL
Assistant Referee 2: Kevin Monteny BEL
Fourth Official: Nathan Verboomen BEL
Video Assistant Referee: Bram Van Driessche BEL
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Bert Put BEL
UEFA Referee Observer: Stefan Meßner AUT
UEFA Delegate: Victor Marius Radu ROU

21:00 CET - Weststadion, Vienna
SK Rapid (AUT)  - SC Braga (POR) 
Referee: Anthony Taylor ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Gary Beswick ENG
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Nunn ENG 
Fourth Official: Sam Barrott ENG
Video Assistant Referee: David Coote ENG 
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Daniel Cook ENG 
UEFA Referee Observer: Antony Gautier FRA
UEFA Delegate: Giel Kirkels NED
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13 comments:

  1. Stockholm23 August 2024 at 16:51

    Slightly OT:
    2 maybe interesting things about Felix Zwayer. We can expect him to work with 2 completly 2 ARs this season (both internationally and domestically). Robert Kempter (36, formerly AR1 to Osmers) and Christian Dietz (40, formerly AR1 to Aytekin). Judged by domestic performances that is surely a big upgrade. They are relatively young and have both been (with Lasse Koslowski) the best performing ARs in Germany for at least 2 seasons. The replacement of Lupp is not really a surprise, for age reasons (maybe dropping internationally), he was just assigned to get Zwayer a good EURO. But the split with Achmüller (44), with whom Zwayer worked for a very long time should indicate that he is clearly trying to achieve more.

    No.2: This Saturday Zwayer will officiate the Bundesliga Topgame between Dortmund and Frankfurt. This is his first time back with Dortmund since the infamous Dortmund-Bayern / Bellingham incident. This happens on the first matchday under new german referee head Knut Kircher.

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    1. Zwayerbrazil23 August 2024 at 17:45

      We can't expect, it's already true. 2 new ARS :D

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    2. Ichigo23 August 2024 at 19:13

      Also, Kovacs works with two new AR. They are Mihai Marica who was in the final Under 19, and George Neacsu. They replace Vasile Marinescu, who is 48 year, and Ovidiu Artene who is 46. I think that Vasile will retire at the end of the year and maybe Ovidiu will finish this season.

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  2. Ref_170724 August 2024 at 00:16

    Three German crews is a remarkable number.

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  3. Davidcrammond29 August 2024 at 14:11

    Rebecca Welch (England) has called full time on refereeing to take a role in the PGMOL. I had her down to be promoted to the Premier League next season.

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  4. Chefren29 August 2024 at 16:47

    Slavia Prague - Lille, Slavko Vincic.

    1', 2' Management of early fouls
    https://streambug.org/cv/0976b5
    https://streambug.org/cv/6e0e79
    Very aggressive start of the game by Czech side, trying to equalize the tie. YC could have been already issued for the first challenge, after the second foul one minute later, referee decided to warn the player from home-team. Don't know how much the Slovenian expected such a beginning. Maybe he coul have reacted more.

    9' Management - Warning
    https://streambug.org/cv/19fa93
    Player not respecting the distance at a free kick.

    12' Possible YC for reckless
    https://streambug.org/cv/302d35
    Late challenge by French player.

    16' Possible YC for reckless or indirect free kick for dangerous play
    https://streambug.org/cv/0fc5f9
    Not clear how much opponent was hit on head, after a clean kick on the ball by Lille player. Change of decision aftera few seconds by Vincic who whistled a free kick in favor of Czech side, impossible to check whether direct or indirect.

    17' YC for reckless use of arms
    https://streambug.org/cv/07f13e
    The same player warned in 2' for the early foul. I think this played a role in Vincic decision, but I don't think that two fouls in 17 minutes are enough to talk about a persistent infringment, so the card should be for the nature of the foul. According to what we can see in replay, in case, definitely wrong. No more than careless, maybe this input came from Fourth Official.

    20' Management of time wasting - handball
    https://streambug.org/cv/aac775
    Lille already starting to clearly waste time. Very long time spent before the execution of the corner, but referee allowed that, still OK, then the ball kicked away after the handball whistled should have definitely meant YC for the player involved. The Slovenian went with another warning but he allowed too much to French side in this way. Discussions also about the handball, to me rather a wrong decision.

    31' Possible foul
    https://streambug.org/cv/a567a2
    Crowd asking loudly for a call by referee at the edge of penalty area, I think rather correct decision to play on.

    41' YC for dissenting gesture after a whistled foul
    https://streambug.org/cv/1a5568
    A very harsh decision by the Slovenian if compared to previous management of the French player kicking ball away, but of couse a correct call by itself.

    42' YC for persistent holding - LoR
    https://streambug.org/cv/9b3c54

    44' YC for throwing ball away?
    https://streambug.org/cv/53952b
    Not 100% clear in this case, without a close replay, the decision by referee. Possible that the player from Lille was booked for dissenting words after the whistled foul. Should be for unsporting behavior in all cases.

    45' Both coaches booked on adivce by fourth official
    https://streambug.org/cv/f0faf1
    Impossible to say what they did exactly, very likely also a confrontation between them. The Slovenian crew solved in this wa the situation, then Obrenovic busy to explain the reaons of the choice.

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    1. Chefren29 August 2024 at 16:47

      50' YC for dissenting gesture
      https://streambug.org/cv/fa35c8
      Another YC for a blatant dissenting gesture by referee, correct decision. Interesting to hear from the commentators: "Harsh referee, he should expect emotions in a game". This means, but that's now something new for us of course, that they literally don't know anything about refereeing and what to consider acceptable behavior and what not.

      55' Penalty area incident
      https://streambug.org/cv/b2a272
      This could have changed the history of the tie. Vincic played on. Extremely risky action by defender, but I think the intensity can suggest us that it was at least supportable to play on, in the meaning of not clear and obvious mistake. To underline, the clear gestures by referee to play on. Then, VAR very likely with the correct decision to stay silent, once Slovenian referee decided to play on. But from an on field point of view this can be definitely expected to be whistled, because with both hands and with an effect on attacker. Another argument against the call is that attacker puts arms on the back to find contact with defender, but he doesn't reach clearly the target.

      61' Penalty area incident
      https://streambug.org/cv/87219e
      This time no live reaction by the Slovenian, maybe it would have been too dangerous! Without signals by AR1, I think he fully relied on VAR for this one. At the end correct decision, not a contact that could justify a penalty call, play on after VAR check. To add, I don't understand, and this happens in many games, while for some situations the VAR shows "CHECK" and for others no (watch the incident in 55'). But of course they check everything and that's most important thing!


      73' Management - Time wasting
      https://streambug.org/cv/d2af02
      Here we go again, at first a very long time before the execution of a free kick by away team, then you can see this action by a player already booked. Kicking ball away, but not in a blatant way, maybe he wanted to pass it to keeper. :) Referee allowed this behavior and he smiled. Definitely not the best management to me, where a second card could have been possible, but in all cases you can't show that reaction considering how you have managed previous cases before.

      84' Good ONSIDE AR2
      https://dubz.co/c/ba27eb
      https://postimg.cc/G4YpC5Gx
      VAR confirmed the regular position of attacker when Slavia scored 2-1. Both assistant referees were good about offside decisions in the game.

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    2. Chefren29 August 2024 at 16:47

      So, what to say? For sure an extremely challenging game for referee. In first half he was very busy with fouls and disciplinary control, then in second half two penalty area incidents and the management of the time wasting by French side. His performance was surely not faultless, but before the rest, one must absolutely point out again how much hard this task was. Nevertheless, I think that in this game we saw once again the nature of the Slovenian referee, definitely not prone in taking extreme decisions that can become arguments for discussions, he rather prefers to apply a certain style, I would call it "wait and see". When it is possible, even if for a very small argument, to go on, he does that. See the penalty area incident in 55', surely the most important moment of the game, and then the possible second YC in 73'. OK, I fully understand whe he didn't want to give it, but acting in this way he definitely saved himself from some criticisms (from the other side). About the penalty, in case of very evident, VAR would have called it. In this context, he was forced to show cards early in first half, but he had even tried to wait, as you can see whrn he managed the early moments of first half. He understood it was impossible to apply a certain style in this game and he changed. As we very often say, it's possible he will be backed about all the incidents, but maybe this is not the most important thing in this game. He also booked players for their unsportinh behaviors, but when such cards could have turned in sending offs...
      To me, despite of the very high difficulty of the game, a performance not at expected level, with the open question of the possible penalty.
      It wasn't a very poor display, but surely doing better was clearly possible.

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  5. Euro Soccer Ref29 August 2024 at 20:48

    Frankowski and Musiał received a one-year suspension (they will be banned for 5 months and the remaining 7 months of ban suspended for two years). They were also fined 25.000 PLN each.

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    1. Quilava29 August 2024 at 22:24

      I wonder if they will be taken off the FIFA list for 2024 (Frankowski referee list, Musial VAR list)

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    2. Euro Soccer Ref29 August 2024 at 23:09

      To think that Frankowski was in pole position for promotion to elite...

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  6. Groule29 August 2024 at 23:57

    Good PK whistled + YC from Erik Lambrechts in extra time to make it 1-1 -- in 111' min during extra time for reckless challenge by GK from Borac

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    1. Chefren30 August 2024 at 12:09

      https://dubz.co/c/e217ae
      All correct here.

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