2024/25 UEFA Europa Conference League, referee appointments for Semifinals, First Legs.
Thursday 1 May 2025
21:00 CET - Seville (Estadio Benito Villamarín)
REAL BETIS BALOMPIÉ (ESP) - ACF FIORENTINA (ITA)
Referee: Michael Oliver ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt ENG
Assistant Referee 2: James Mainwaring ENG
Fourth Official: Christopher Kavanagh ENG
Video Assistant Referee: Jarred Gillett AUS
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Michael Salisbury ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: Volodymyr Petrov UKR
UEFA Delegate: Kris Bellon BEL
21:00 CET - Stockholm (3Arena)
DJURGÅRDENS IF (SWE) - CHELSEA FC (ENG)
Referee: Sandro Schärer SUI
Assistant Referee 1: Stéphane De Almeida SUI
Assistant Referee 2: Jonas Erni SUI
Fourth Official: Urs Schnyder SUI
Video Assistant Referee: Fedayi San SUI
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Lionel Tschudi SUI
UEFA Referee Observer: David Fernández Borbalán ESP
UEFA Delegate: Claude Runavot FRA
Quite normal four appointments for Thursday.
ReplyDeleteI think, the following six referees would be the obvious choices for the 2nd legs:
Kovacs, Letexier, Marciniak, Mariani, Peljto, Zwayer
If one or more of those will be planned directly for a final, further options would be:
Kruzliak, Pinheiro, Siebert
And I guess, Makkelie could also appear, but his status seems quite unclear at the moment.
Come on Kruzliak no more match fir him this season.
DeleteMariana inderdaad
Both no top referees
Corriger svp
ReplyDeleteJarred Gillett ENG
No it's correct. He is referee in England since 2021 but he was born in Australia, being a referee there till 2019, and still has the australian flag at his name when he whistles the matches in the premier league
DeleteAs for final appointments, one should also consider which top elite referees have been observed by committee members (let's say) this year.
ReplyDeleteEskås
09-04-25 UCL QF Barcelona vs B. Dortmund (Šajn)
Letexier
11-03-25 UCL R16 Barcelona vs Benfica (Kuipers)
Massa
05-03-25 UCL R16 Paris vs Liverpool (Velasco Carballo)
Pinheiro
04-03-25 UCL R16 Club Brugge vs Aston Villa (Rosetti)
Schärer
08-04-25 UCL QF Bayern München vs Inter (Kuipers)
Zwayer
23-03-25 UNL PO Hungary vs Türkiye (Velasco Carballo)
Very busy opening at Real Betis. 5' YC after advantage then a goal given after VAR intervention (ball over line). Has there been a tech failure or is there no goal line technology? Yet to see any conclusive evidence and no alert on the watch
ReplyDeleteI agree, the evidence shown is not conclusive.
DeleteIndeed, maybe I missed something, but no GLT in Conference League semifinal? There wasn't any advice. I think goal confirmed by VAR only because no contrary evidence, but at this level?
DeleteAh, original decision was NO GOAL, so GOAL decision was made by VAR. Well, absolutely no evidence about that.
DeleteTo be honest, I don't understand.
Now great advantage at 2:0 and a very rare YC for LoR holding afterwards.
DeleteMany very good advantages since too. An excellent game for Oliver, been on top form. Only question mark is the first goal, but hopefully we can trust the VAR had better evidence
DeleteChallenging, very physical game for Oliver. He could be proud he survived and took big decisions right. Excellent advantage use through the whole game. Fiorentina players often with bad attitude, mobbing the referee several times.
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