2025 UEFA Under-21 Championship Play-Offs Appointments (First Legs and Second Legs)

Tuesday, 12 November 2024

2025 UEFA Under-21 Championship Play-Offs Appointments (First Legs and Second Legs)

Please find below the appointments for play-offs of Under-21 EURO Qualification, both legs.

Adam Ladebäck SWE to referee Georgia - Croatia, first leg

First Legs

Friday 15 November 2024

16:00 CET - Tbilisi (Mikheil Meskhis Stadioni)
GEORGIA - CROATIA
Referee: Adam Ladebäck SWE
Assistant Referee 1: Niklas Nyberg SWE
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Yng SWE
Fourth Official: Joakim Östling SWE
UEFA Referee Observer: Thomas Einwaller AUT
UEFA Delegate: Florin Prunea ROU

17:45 CET - Tampere (Tammelan Stadion)
FINLAND - NORWAY
Referee: Alessandro Dudic SUI
Assistant Referee 1: Pascal Hirzel SUI
Assistant Referee 2: Susann Küng SUI
Fourth Official: Anojen Kanagasingam SUI
UEFA Referee Observer: Leslie Irvine NIR
UEFA Delegate: Claude Runavot FRA

20:00 CET - Leuven (King Power at Den Dreef Stadion)
BELGIUM - CZECHIA
Referee: Atilla Karaoğlan TUR
Assistant Referee 1: Ceyhun Sesigüzel TUR
Assistant Referee 2: Abdullah Bora Özkara TUR
Fourth Official: Çağdaş Altay TUR
UEFA Referee Observer: Bernardino González Vázquez ESP
UEFA Delegate: Haris Gvozden BIH

Second Legs

Tuesday 19 November 2024

17:30 CET - Hradec Králové (Malšovická aréna)
CZECHIA [2-0] BELGIUM
Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas LTU
Assistant Referee 1: Mangirdas Mirauskas LTU
Assistant Referee 2: Aleksandras Stepanovas LTU
Fourth Official: Vilius Paulauskas LTU
UEFA Referee Observer: Terje Hauge NOR
UEFA Delegate: Aleksandra Pejkovska MKD

18:30 CET - Stavanger (SR-Bank Arena)
NORWAY [1-5] FINLAND
Referee: John Brooks ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Simon Bennett ENG
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Robathan ENG
Fourth Official: Timothy Robinson ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: Jan Willem Wegereef NED
UEFA Delegate: Iain Blair SCO

19:00 CET - Rijeka (Stadion HNK Rijeka)
CROATIA [0-1] GEORGIA
Referee: Simone Sozza ITA
Assistant Referee 1: Ciro Carbone ITA
Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Giallatini ITA
Fourth Official: Matteo Marcenaro ITA
UEFA Referee Observer: Carlos Velasco Carballo ESP

UEFA Delegate: Marko Simeunovič SVN

9 comments:

Euro Soccer Ref13 November 2024 at 00:40
Two years ago, the following referees were appointed to U21 play-offs

1L
Goga Kikacheishvili
Allard Lindhout
Gergő Bogár
Dario Bel

2L
Rohit Saggi
Sebastian Gishamer
Morten Krogh Hansen
Nathan Verboomen

Krogh and Lindhout were selected for the final tournament afterwards. While the Dane handled the semi-final, we all remember what a nightmare the tournament was for the Dutch.

Let's see what the referees that handled the play-offs in 2022 achieved afterwards:

Goga Kikacheishvili
2 UECL
1 EURO Q
2 UCL Q
4 UECL Q
2 U21 Q
5 UYL

Allard Lindhout
1 UCL
3 UEL
2 UECL
2 EURO Q
1 UNL
1 UCL Q
1 UEL Q
1 UECL Q
2 U21 EURO

Gergő Bogár
2 UECL
2 EURO Q
2 UCL Q
2 UECL Q
1 U21 Q
2 U19 EURO
2 UYL

Dario Bel
4 UECL
1 EURO Q
2 UCL Q
2 UECL Q
3 U21 Q
2 U17 Q

Rohit Saggi
1 UCL
4 UEL
2 UECL
2 EURO Q
2 UNL
2 UCL Q
1 UEL Q
1 UECL Q
1 U21 Q
1 UYL

Sebastian Gishamer
2 UEL
3 UECL
2 EURO Q
1 UNL
1 UCL Q
2 UEL Q
2 UECL Q
1 UYL

Morten Krogh Hansen
1 UCL
5 UEL
3 UECL
2 EURO Q
1 UNL
2 UCL Q
1 UEL Q
1 UECL Q
3 U21 EURO
3 U17 WC

Nathan Verboomen
1 UECL
1 EURO Q
1 UCL Q
4 UECL Q
2 U21 Q
2 UYL

Gergő Bogár and Nathan Verboomen most likely failed this season's UEFA tests (their last UEFA games were in August).

Given that club competitions are of biggest importance for UEFA, we could try to rank the referees according to their appearances in UCL, UEL and UECL.

Krogh 1-5-3 (+ U21 EURO SF, + U17WC R16)
Saggi 1-4-2
Lindhout 1-3-2 (+ U21 EURO GS)
Gishamer 0-2-3
Bel 0-0-4
Bogár 0-0-2
Kikacheishvili 0-0-2
Verboomen 0-0-1

The upper four referees were promoted to the first category while the bottom four are still in the second category.
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Chefren13 November 2024 at 10:29
After the issues at 2023 Under 21 I expected these games to be played with VAR, it seem as UEFA has different ideas. Normal assignments like the qualifiers. OK, national teams involved must then accept mistakes, even if crucial and direct ones, like an offside goal that could decide a qualification. Of course we wish that this will not happen, but modern football has shown to be very complex to officiate without technology (at least for the extremely difficult decisions to be taken on the pitch).
Interesting that one of the three appointed referees comes from a country that has officially refused VAR and they don't use it.
In my opinion for both referees and assistant referees at very top level in domestic countries, it's always difficult to switch from the two kinds of officiating, with and without VAR.
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Euro Soccer Ref14 November 2024 at 23:34
Friendlies

14/11

MKDKOS Jordan Jovanovski MKD
CYPHUN ?
SVKNED Łukasz Kuźma POL
SWENED Patricia Luna Varo ESP
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Quilava15 November 2024 at 17:34
Correct DOGSO RC for the Croatian GK by Ladebäck.
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Chefren16 November 2024 at 10:47
Big observation in second legs, Sozza with Velasco Carballo.
It's interesting to compare the first leg assignment in Georgia, Ladebäck, with the second in Croatia, Sozza. Totally different choices, a young Category 2 and then a Category 1 in development for the Elite.
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Davidcrammond16 November 2024 at 12:59
Who's Timothy Robinson. England has a Tim Robinson
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Chefren19 November 2024 at 20:11
https://streamin.me/v/ad100e30
RC by Brooks in Norway - Finland.
Honestly, not the best impression by English referee, when players were already having a confrontation, he continued to walk very slowly without running into the scene and just issued the red card.
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