Friday, 15 May 2026

Domestic League Appointments

The referee in charge of domestic games, starting from Friday 15 May 2026. 

Fabio Maresca will referee Rome's derby

PREMIER LEAGUE

Friday 15/05

21:00 Aston Villa - Liverpool
Christopher Kavanagh - Daniel Cook, Lee Betts - Andrew Madley
[Neil Davies, Paul Howard]

Sunday 17/05

13:30 Manchester United - Nottingham Forest
Michael Salisbury - Marc Perry, Natalie Aspinall - Ben Toner
[Matthew Donohue, Gary Beswick]

16:00 Brentford - Crystal Palace
Samuel Barrott - Ian Hussin, Wade Smith - Stephen Martin
[Paul Howard, Adam Nunn]

16:00 Everton - Sunderland
John Brooks - Simon Bennett, Craig Taylor - Oliver Langford
[Tony Harrington, Adrian Holmes]

16:00 Leeds United - Brighton & Hove Albion
Michael Oliver - Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring - Samuel Allison
[Stuart Attwell, Constantine Hatzidakis]

16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Fulham
Thomas Kirk - Simon Long, Matthew Wilkes - Christopher Kavanagh
[Peter Bankes, Andrew Kitchen]

18:30 Newcastle United - West Ham United
Jarred Gillett - Neil Davies, Scott Ledger - Lewis Smith
[Craig Pawson, Nick Hopton]

Monday 18/05

21:00 Arsenal - Burnley
Paul Tierney - Richard West, Mark Scholes - Robert Jones
[James Bell, Timothy Wood]

Tuesday 19/05

20:30 Bournemouth - Manchester City
Anthony Taylor - Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn - Craig Pawson
[Jarred Gillett, Lee Betts]

21:15 Chelsea - Tottenham Hotspur
Stuart Attwell - Constantine Hatzidakis, Nick Greenhalgh - Andrew Madley
[John Brooks, Daniel Robathan]




EMIRATES FA CUP - FINAL

Saturday 16/05

16:00 Chelsea - Manchester City
Darren England - Timothy Wood, Akil Howson - Samuel Barrott
[Peter Bankes, Nick Hopton]




SERIE A ENILIVE

Sunday 17/05

12:00 Como - Parma
Luca Zufferli - Christian Rossi, Paolo Laudato - Valerio Crezzini
[Aleandro Di Paolo, Matteo Gariglio]

12:00 Genoa - Milan
Simone Sozza - Alessandro Lo Cicero, Dario Cecconi - Matteo Marchetti
[Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni, Giacomo Paganessi]

12:00 Juventus - Fiorentina
Davide Massa - Filippo Meli, Stefano Alassio - Livio Marinelli
[Daniele Chiffi, Francesco Meraviglia]

12:00 Pisa - Napoli
Francesco Fourneau - Fabiano Preti, Simone Biffi - Simone Galipò
[Lorenzo Maggioni, Giacomo Camplone]

12:00 Roma - Lazio
Fabio Maresca - Giorgio Peretti, Giuseppe Perrotti - Michael Fabbri
[Marco Di Bello, Rosario Abisso]

15:00 Internazionale Milano - Hellas Verona
Andrea Calzavara - Alessandro Costanzo, Matteo Passeri - Giuseppe Collu
[Alberto Santoro, Antonio Giua]

18:00 Atalanta - Bologna
Daniele Perenzoni - Dario Garzelli, Gianluca Grasso - Andrea Zanotti
[Ivano Pezzuto, Marco Serra]

20:45 Cagliari - Torino
Alberto Ruben Arena - Filippo Bercigli, Mattia Regattieri - Mario Perri
[Davide Ghersini, Alessandro Prontera]

20:45 Sassuolo - Lecce
Federico La Penna - Luigi Rossi, Domenico Fontemurato - Davide Di Marco
[Daniele Doveri, Federico Dionisi]

20:45 Udinese - Cremonese
Gianluca Manganiello - Alessio Berti, Valerio Vecchi - Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi
[Valerio Marini, Francesco Cosso]




LA LIGA EA SPORTS

Sunday 17/05

19:00 Athletic - Celta de Vigo

19:00 Atlético de Madrid - Girona

19:00 Elche - Getafe

19:00 Levante - Mallorca

19:00 Osasuna - Espanyol de Barcelona

19:00 Real Oviedo - Deportivo Alavés

19:00 Rayo Vallecano - Villarreal

19:00 Real Sociedad - Valencia

19:00 Sevilla - Real Madrid

21:15 Barcelona - Real Betis




BUNDESLIGA

Saturday 16/05

15:30 Bayer Leverkusen - Hamburger SV
Tobias Stieler - Mark Borsch, Lasse Koslowski - Robin Braun
[Matthias Jöllenbeck, Thorsten Schiffner]

15:30 Bayern München - Köln
Deniz Aytekin - Christian Leicher, Eduard Beitinger - Benjamin Brand
[Katrin Rafalski, Henrik Bramlage]

15:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach - Hoffenheim
Frank Willenborg - Eric Müller, Florian Heft - Sven Jablonski
[Arne Aarnink, Guido Kleve]

15:30 Eintracht Frankfurt - Stuttgart
Tobias Welz - Martin Thomsen, Rafael Foltyn - Felix Bickel
[Christian Dingert, Holger Henschel]

15:30 Freiburg - RB Leipzig
Sascha Stegemann - Christof Günsch, Fabian Maibaum - Timo Gansloweit
[Sören Storks, Christian Fischer]

15:30 Heidenheim - Mainz
Robert Hartmann - Tobias Schultes, Marco Achmüller - Patrick Schwengers
[Guido Winkmann, Frederick Assmuth]

15:30 St. Pauli - Wolfsburg
Daniel Siebert - Jan Seidel, Benedikt Kempkes - Wolfgang Haslberger
[Benjamin Cortus, Justus Zorn]

15:30 Union Berlin - Augsburg
Patrick Ittrich - Sascha Thielert, Thomas Gorniak - Robert Schröder
[Patrick Hanslbauer, Arno Blos]

15:30 Werder Bremen - Borussia Dortmund
Bastian Dankert - René Rohde, Stefan Lupp - Jarno Wienefeld
[Johann Pfeifer, Markus Sinn]

Sunday 17/05

15:30 Darmstadt - Paderborn (2. Bundesliga)
Florian Badstübner - Markus Schüller, Philipp Hüwe - Felix Prigan
[Patrick Hanslbauer, Felix-Benjamin Schwermer]

15:30 Greuther Fürth - Fortuna Düsseldorf (2. Bundesliga)
Harm Osmers - Dominik Schaal, Christian Gittelmann - Lars Erbst
[Pascal Müller, Markus Sinn]

15:30 Hannover - Nürnberg (2. Bundesliga)
Daniel Schlager - Sven Waschitzki-Günther, Tobias Fritsch - Eric Weisbach
[Sören Storks, Christian Fischer]




LIGUE 1 MCDONALD'S

Friday 15/05

20:30 Saint-
Étienne - Rodez Aveyron (Play-Off - second round)
Marc Bollengier - Yannick Boutry, Julien Haulbert - Brendan Roffet
[Hamid Guenaoui, Yann Flament]

Sunday 17/05

21:00 Lille - Auxerre
Willy Delajod - Erwan Finjean, Valentin Évrard - Thomas Léonard
[Alexandre Castro, Stéphane Bré]

21:00 Lorient - Le Havre
Clément Turpin - Nicolas Danos, Benjamin Pagès - Jérémy Stinat
[Benoît Millot, Mathieu Grosbost]

21:00 Nantes - Toulouse
Stéphanie Frappart - Steven Torregrossa, Youssef El Hamzaoui - Aurélien Petit
[Pierre Gaillouste, Julian Grelot]

21:00 Nice - Metz
Jérémie Pignard - Aurélien Drouet, Brice Parinet Le Tellier - 
Éric Wattellier
[Cyril Gringore, Mehdi Mokhtari]

21:00 Olympique Lyonnais - Lens
François Letexier - Mehdi Rahmouni, Gwena
ël Pasqualotti - Gaël Angoula
[Nicolas Rainville, William Lavis]

21:00 Olympique de Marseille - Stade Rennais
Ruddy Buquet - Cyril Mugnier, Alexis Auger - Hakim Ben El Hadj Salem
[Bastien Dechepy, Ludovic Zmyslony]

21:00 Paris FC - Paris Saint-Germain
Guillaume Paradis - Nicolas Durand, Ludovic Reyes - Azzedine Souifi
[Yohann Rouinsard, Ludovic Remy]

21:00 Stade Brestois - Angers
Mathieu Vernice - Florian Gonçalves De Araujo, Thomas Luczynski - Benjamin Lepaysant
[Julien Schmitt, 
Élisa Daupeux]

21:00 Strasbourg - Monaco
Benoît Bastien - Hicham Zakrani, Aurélien Berthomieu - Thierry Bouille
[Hamid Guenaoui, Cédric Dos Santos]




LIGA PORTUGAL BETCLIC

Saturday 16/05

12:00 Académico de Viseu - Sporting CP B (Liga Portugal Meu Super)
David Rafael Silva - Carlos Campos, Nelson Cunha - Carlos Macedo
[Sérgio Piscarreta, Pedro Sancho]

16:30 Moreirense - AFS
Sérgio Guelho - Hugo Santos, Alexandre Ferreira - Tiago Sá
[Rui Silva, Álvaro Mesquita]

16:30 Porto - Santa Clara
João Gonçalves - João Bessa Silva, Miguel Martins - Diogo Araújo
[João Bento, Pedro Sousa]

19:00 Arouca - Tondela
António Nobre - Nelson Pereira, Francisco Pereira - Rui Lima
[Manuel Oliveira, Fábio Silva]

19:00 Braga - Estrela Amadora
Gustavo Correia - Inácio Pereira, André Dias - Vítor Lopes
[Pedro Ferreira, Leonel Ferreira]

19:00 Casa Pia - Rio Ave
Hélder Malheiro - Gonçalo Vaz Freire, Hugo Ribeiro - Flávio Duarte
[Tiago Martins, Cátia Tavares]

19:00 Nacional - Vitória Guimar
ães
Ricardo Baixinho - Ricardo Carreira, Diogo Pereira - Flávio Lima
[Jo
ão Malheiro Pinto, Rui Cidade]

21:30 Estoril Praia - Benfica
Miguel Nogueira - Paulo Brás, Nuno Pires - Gonçalo Neves
[Rui Costa, Pedro Ribeiro]

21:30 Famalic
ão - Alverca
Cláudio Pereira - Sérgio Jesus, Tiago Costa - Fábio Melo
[Ricardo Moreira, Ricardo Castro Luz]

21:30 Sporting CP - Gil Vicente
Luís Godinho - Rui Teixeira, Pedro Mota - Bruno Vieira
[Luís Ferreira, Valdemar Maia]

Sunday 17/05

21:30 Portimonense - Farense (Liga Portugal Meu Super)
Jo
ão Pinheiro - Bruno Jesus, Luciano Maia - Bruno Costa
[Manuel Mota, Paulo Miranda]




VRIENDENLOTERIJ EREDIVISIE

Saturday 16/05

20:00 Willem II - Almere City (1:0) (Keuken Kampioen Play-Off - third round (II))
Alex Bos - Marco Ribbink, Frans Ozinga - Martin Pérez
[Pol van Boekel, Kevin Bodde]

Sunday 17/05

14:30 AZ Alkmaar - NAC Breda
Edwin van de Graaf - Mario Diks, Joost van Zuilen - Steve Janssen
[Martin van den Kerkhof, Rob van de Ven]

14:30 Heerenveen - Ajax Amsterdam
Joey Kooij - Dyon Fikkert, Murat Kucukerbir - Thomas Hardeman
[Dennis Higler, Thomas Krijt]

14:30 Heracles Almelo - Groningen
Richard Martens - Don Frijn, Jari de Koning - Niels Boel
[Jannick van der Laan, Freek Vandeursen]

14:30 NEC Nijmegen - Go Ahead Eagles
Sander van der Eijk - Patrick Inia, Stefan de Groot - Clay Ruperti
[Rob Dieperink, Michael Osseweijer]

14:30 PEC Zwolle - Feyenoord Rotterdam
Erwin Blank - Nils van Kampen, Luc de Koning - Joshua Kuipers
[Martijn Vos, Maarten Ketting]

14:30 PSV - Twente
Jeroen Manschot - Rens Bluemink, Rogier Honig - Alex Bos
[Pol van Boekel, Franca Overtoom]

14:30 Sparta Rotterdam - Excelsior Rotterdam
Allard Lindhout - Johan Balder, Roy de Nas - Rick Sturm
[Robin Hensgens, Richard Polman]

14:30 Utrecht - Fortuna Sittard
Ingmar Oostrom - Roan van Marrewijk, Rick van Rijn - Andy Wolff
[Martin Pérez, Joey Waleveld]

14:30 Volendam - Telstar
Marc Nagtegaal - Joris Westhof, Yorick Weterings - Wouter Wiersma
[Stan Teuben, Sjoerd Nanninga]




STOIXIMAN SUPER LEAGUE

Sunday 17/05

18:30 AEK - Olymbiakós
Andrea Colombo - Giovanni Baccini, Marco Ceccon (ITA) - Vasílios Fotiás
[Gianluca Aureliano, Stefano Del Giovane (ITA)]

18:30 
Panathinaïkós - PAOK
Goga Kikacheishvili - Davit Akhvlediani, Davit Gabisonia (GEO) - Anastásios Papapétrou
[Aleko Aptsiauri, Bakur Ninua (GEO)]




CYPRUS LEAGUE BY STOIXIMAN

Friday 15/05

18:00 Akrítas Chlórakas - AEL Limassol
Ante Čulina (CRO) - Pávlos Georgíou, Pétros Pétrou - Ioánnis Christodoúlou
[Dario Bel (CRO), Charálambos Georgíou]

18:00 Olymbiakós Nicosia - Anórthosis Ammochóstou
Georgi Kabakov (BUL) - Mários Kalogírou, Kyriákos Sokrátous - Konstandínos Fellás
[Dragomir Draganov (BUL), Ómiros Tziortzís]

3 comments:

  1. Excellent appointment for Maresca, he’s back as a trusted referee.
    Third big appointment in a row for Zufferli, and Sozza/Massa get good appointments unsurprisingly.
    Also good appointments for La Penna and Manganiello

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    1. Also the serie b playoffs is happening now, we might need to add them

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  2. In the Bundesliga, the battle against relegation is very tight. Before the final matchday played this weekend, the 3 last teams Wolfsburg, Heidenheim and St. Pauli all have 26 points.
    St Pauli and Wolfsburg face each other for a direct battle.
    Daniel Siebert was appointed to that one and Robert Hartmann (not well-known outside of Germany but experienced and actually a very good referee the last 2 seasons) gets the other game involving Heidenheim.

    Also, 4 referees will handle their last Bundesliga game, as
    Deniz Aytekin (we all know him, unlucky international career),
    Tobias Welz (former UEFA Cat I, Cup Final 2020, always been an old-school but experienced and reliable referee),
    Frank Willenborg (IMO underrated, always remained (too) calm, didn’t really get the chance to achieve much) and
    Patrick Ittrich (widely appreciated by fans and media, good skills in dealing with players but weak technical accuracy)
    are retiring.

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