2026-27 UEFA Champions League, Play-Offs, Second Legs, games to be played on 25 August 2026.
Tuesday 25 August 2026
SABAH FC (AZE) - HAPOEL BE’ER SHEVA (ISR)
Referee: István Kovács ROU
Assistant Referee 2: Ferencz Tunyogi ROU
UEFA Referee Observer: Stéphane Lannoy FRA
Assistant Referee 2: Ferencz Tunyogi ROU
UEFA Referee Observer: Stéphane Lannoy FRA
21:00 CET - Linz (Oberösterreich Arena)
LASK (AUT) - CELTIC FC (SCO)
Referee: Szymon Marciniak POL
Assistant Referee 1: Tomasz Listkiewicz POL
Fourth Official: Paweł Raczkowski POL
UEFA Referee Observer: Frank De Bleeckere BEL
Assistant Referee 1: Tomasz Listkiewicz POL
Fourth Official: Paweł Raczkowski POL
UEFA Referee Observer: Frank De Bleeckere BEL
21:00 CET - Bodø (Aspmyra)
FK BODØ/GLIMT (NOR) - NEC NIJMEGEN (NED)
Referee: Michael Oliver ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt ENG
Assistant Referee 2: James Mainwaring ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt ENG
Assistant Referee 2: James Mainwaring ENG
Fourth Official: Andrew Madley ENG
Video Assistant Referee: Michael Salisbury ENG
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Attwell ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: David Fernández Borbalán ESP
Video Assistant Referee: Michael Salisbury ENG
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Attwell ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: David Fernández Borbalán ESP
Marciniak for LASK-CELTIC
ReplyDeleteThree very big names for Tuesday's games.
ReplyDeleteKovacs is lucky to get CL after his rather below expectations previous performance, however he is given the least sonorous clash, but potentially very hot in terms of fouls.
An interesting chapter about VARs: Kovacs once again with a foreign name for him, more generally, apart from the trust in a certain name or not by committee for a game (in this case, Popa), I think the famous Elite referee finds himself better while having communication with VAR from other countries, than Romanias, but it's also true his career started and continued in this way (when Romania was among the few countries still without technology), Marciniak without Polish colleague from the room, he will be with van Boekel. Tomasz Kwiatkowski doesn't seem highly regarded by UEFA at moment, we see Malec as AVAR, the official who confirmed the controversial penalty call by Al Hakim in Sion - Ajax.
And in the English team, Salisbuty takes over Attwell as main VAR.
I don't think that Kovacs is given the least sonorous clash,if anything I would say he got the most challenging and in terms of result the most uncertain match.
DeleteThe other one is Celtic 4,-0 lead with Marciniak and Oliver that has pretty straightforward match.
Marciniak observed by de Bleeckere is particular. Normally, de Bleeckere is paired with rather young "development-referees". Do they want to check Marciniaks status after a disapppointing world cup?
ReplyDeleteThis season, Olivers path must be thepreparation for a european final - EL or CL, in case of "allowing" this by english clubs, the main obstacle.
For the four games on wednesday, we can be sure about Mariani, Turpin and at least one spanish referee.
Tomorrow's matches are going to be more challenging both in terms of scoreline and difficulty level. I was expecting Michael Oliver and Marciniak in one of those matches. Following these appointments, it is now clear that Mariani will officiate Lyon vs. Fener match.
ReplyDeletePrediction:
DeleteOlympique Lyon - Fenerbahçe: Mariani
AEK - Levski: Turpin
Celje - Slovan: Hernández Hernández
Viking - Dinamo Zagreb: Sánchez Martínez
Brooks for Brann - PAOK
ReplyDeleteUEFA Europa Conference League?
ReplyDeleteYou have all the appointments on Uefa site. They published it 7 or more days ago
DeleteAlready known since less than 2 weeks ago:
DeleteLarne - Lincoln Red Imps: Radoslav Gidzhenov (BUL)
Riga - Klaksvík: Allard Lindhout (NED)
Borač - Víkingur: Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE)
KuPS - Shamrock Rovers: Patrik Kolarić (CRO)
Inter Escaldes - Drita: Giorgi Kruashvili (GEO)
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Copenhagen - Inter Turku: Oleksiy Derevinsky (UKR)
Brighton - Tromsø: Sander van der Eijk (NED)
Rijeka - Midtjylland: Jasper Vergoote (BEL)
St Gallen - Nordsjaelland: Orel Grinfeld (ISR)
Brann - PAOK: John Brooks (ENG)
Monaco - Górnik Zabrze: Vasilis Fotias (GRE)
Qarabag - Twente: Rohit Saggi (NOR)
Ajax - Sion: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
Freiburg - Motherwell: Andrea Colombo (ITA)
Hradec Králové - Panathinaikos: Sascha Stegemann (GER)
Hibernian - Gent: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Hapoel Tel Aviv - Atalanta: Daniel Schlager (GER)
Maccabi Tel Aviv - Lugano: Jérémie Pignard (FRA)
Rapid Wien - Heart of Midlothian: Elçin Masiyev (AZE)
Jablonec - Rangers: Nenad Minaković (SRB)
Raków Czestochowa - Hajduk Split: Aliyar Aghayev (AZE)
Pafos - Dinamo Tirana: Martin Matoša (SVN)
Austria Wien - Braga: Nikola Dabanović (MNE)
Partizan - Getafe: Urs Schnyder (SUI)