Friday, 20 December 2024

UEFA Referees Categories for the second part of 2024-25 season: João Pinheiro POR and Maurizio Mariani ITA Promoted to Elite

New updated of the UEFA categories for the second part of current season (01/01/2025 - 30/06/2025). New FIFA referees from 2025 have been added.



Promoted to Elite:

MEN
Maurizio Mariani ITA
João Pedro da Silva Pinheiro POR

WOMEN
Olatz Rivera Olmedo ESP
Silvia Gasperotti ITA
Désirée Grundbacher SUI 

Promoted to Category 1:

MEN
Elchin Masiyev AZE
Mohammed Al-Emara FIN
Goga Kikacheishvili GEO
Sander van der Eijk NED
Vasileios Fotias GRE 

WOMEN
Olivia Tschon AUT
Caroline Lanssens BEL 
Nanna Løf Morch Andersen DEN
Maïka Vanderstichel FRA

PDF documents:

MEN:
LINK

WOMEN:
LINK

FUTSAL:
LINK

27 comments:

  1. Did I saw good, without demotion?

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    1. No demotions. The announced revolution was a bluff.

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    2. I think change of the system of CL, UEL, UCL was helpful. A lot of games - a lot of opportunities for referees to improve and save their statuses.

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  2. Orsato retired, Mariani in
    Soares Dias retired, Pinheiro in
    Kulbakov retired, nobody in - lack of referees from Belarus

    Only interesting is that after Hategan's retirement Petrescu stays in first group

    Politics only - federations (specially big federations like Italy and Portugal) must be satisfied.

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    1. The main argument regarding Mariani and Pinheiro promotions is indeed that both federations needed an Elite. Portugal without referees in that category after Soares Dias retirement and Italy with only two referees for a rather long time. Mariani expected, but he failed several times in past.
      So one could draw the conclusion that choices were made only based on that and there wasn't any technical process about the other referees. That's nevertheless strange for names like Petrescu who ensured quite good couple of games...

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    2. And why did the committee members even observe Rumsas and Petrescu if they did not want to promote them anyway? I mean, they showed good/satisfactory performances in their games (definitely better performances than Mariani), so what could they have done to be promoted? Belong to another country??

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    3. The only explanation is that time will tell and maybe these choices will follow in future.

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  3. What a disappointing re-categorization !!!!!! No demotion but only partial replacing. Pinheiro and Mariani are the pure substitutes of Soares Dias and Orsato. Really disappointed for Rumsas and Petrescu, I guess they would have deserved it. Does it make sense to work only in the promotion direction ? Doe sit make sense to keep into Elite Karasev, Sidiropolous, Grinfeeld, Jovanovic and Hz Hz ? Maybe it's just matter of salary, elite has probably an higher wage and nobody want to impact on it.

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  4. New UEFA referees (Men). Very long list.
    We have the new Cakir as well.

    Men
    Artem Gasparyan ARM
    Jakob Semler AUT
    Simon Bourdeaud'hui BEL
    Anton Lashuk BLR
    Mateo Erceg CRO
    Konstantinos Fellas CYP
    Karel Rouček CZE
    Sam Barrott ENG
    Karl Koppel EST
    Romain Lissorgue FRA
    Mathieu Vernice FRA
    Aleko Aptsiauri GEO
    Giorgi Avazashvili GEO
    Florian Badstübner GER
    Matthias Jöllenbeck GER
    Seth Charles Sheehan-Galia GIB
    Alexandros Tsakalidis GRE
    Márton Rúsz HUN
    Johann Ingi Jonsson ISL
    Gal Levi ISR
    Matteo Marcenaro ITA
    Matteo Marchetti ITA
    Igor Bosca MDA
    Vlatko Ilioski MKD
    Marius Hansen Grøtta NOR
    Daniel Higraff NOR
    Patryk Gryckiewicz POL
    Wojciech Myć POL
    João António Ferreira Gonçalves POR
    Szabolcs Roland Kovacs ROU
    Rares George Vidican ROU
    Sergey Cheban RUS
    Ross Shearer Hardie SCO
    Sven Wolfensberger SUI
    Oscar Johnson SWE
    Oguzhan Çakir TUR
    Mehme Türkmen TUR
    Klym Zabroda UKR
    Aaron Wyn Jones WAL

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    1. For (ENG): Sam Barrot gets the badge of FIFA and Craig Pawson leaves.

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    2. Who dropped out of the list for Romain and Vernice to make it to 25?

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    3. @Ref Fif Gaillouste and Buquet

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    4. Dates of birth of the new FIFA refs, at least those I could find:

      Artem Gasparyan (ARM, 1993)
      Jakob Semler (AUT, 1991)
      Simon Bourdeaud'hui (BEL, 1996)
      Anton Lashuk (BLR, 1992)
      Mateo Erceg (CRO, 1996)
      Konstantinos Fellas (CYP, ???)
      Karel Rouček (CZE, 1996)
      Samuel Barrott (ENG, 1993)
      Karl Koppel (EST, 1994)
      Romain Lissorgue (FRA, 1991)
      Mathieu Vernice (FRA, 1993)
      Aleko Aptsiauri (GEO, 1990)
      Giorgi Avazashvili (GEO, 1988)
      Florian Badstübner (GER, 1991)
      Matthias Jöllenbeck (GER, 1987)
      Seth Galia (GIB, 1999)
      Alexandros Tsakalidis (GRE, 1993)
      Márton Rúsz (HUN, 1994)
      Jóhann Ingi Jónsson (ISL, 1985)
      Gal Levi (ISR, ???)
      Matteo Marcenaro (ITA, 1992)
      Matteo Marchetti (ITA, 1989)
      Igor Boşca (MDA, 1989)
      Vlatko Ilioski (MKD, 1993)
      Marius Hansen Grøtta (NOR, 1992)
      Daniel Higraff (NOR, 1992)
      Patryk Gryckiewicz (POL, 1995)
      Wojciech Myć (POL, 1989)
      João Gonçalves (POR, 1991)
      Szabolcs Kovács (ROU, 1988)
      Rares Vidican (ROU, 1988)
      Sergey Cheban (RUS, 1990)
      Ross Hardie (SCO, ???)
      Sven Wolfensberger (SUI, 1989)
      Oscar Johnson (SWE, 1993)
      Oğuzhan Çakır (TUR, 1998)
      Mehmet Türkmen (TUR, 1992)
      Klym Zabroda (UKR, 1991)
      Aaron Wyn Jones (WAL, ???)

      @Ref Fif - Ruddy Buquet and Pierre Gaillouste have left the French list. Buquet is already 47, and Gaillouste was domestically demoted to Ligue 2 despite attending U17 EURO.

      Referees that get replaced by newcomers:

      Gasparyan - N/D, seems like Armenia got a 4th slot.
      Semler - Lechner, even though he retired internationally at the end of 2023
      Boudeaud'hui - Lardot
      Lashuk - Kulbakov
      Erceg - Jovic
      Fellas - Argyrou
      Roucek - Petrik
      Barrott - Pawson
      Koppel - Tohver
      Lissorgue & Vernice - Buquet & Gaillouste
      Aptsiauri & Avazahsvili - One of them replaces Kvirikashvili, and Georgia wins a 4th slot like Armenia did.
      Badstübner & Jöllenbeck - Dankert & Dingert
      Galia - Barcelo
      Tsakalidis - Diamantopoulos & Manouchos have left the list, so Greece has now one free slot.
      Rúsz - Vad
      Levi - Reinshreiber
      Marcenaro & Marchetti - Orsato & Di Bello
      Bosca - No replacement, either 4th slot won by Moldova or free slot occupied
      Ilioski - Stavrev
      Grotta & Higraff - Steen & Amland
      Gryckiewicz & Myc - Frankowski & Stefanski
      Gonçalves - Soares Dias
      Kovács & Vidican - Hategan & Bîrsan
      Cheban - No replacement, ninth (!?) slot won by Russia
      Hardie - Collum
      Wolfensberger - San (becomes specific VAR?)
      Johnson - Ekberg
      Çakir & Türkmen - Bitigen & Simsek
      Zabroda - Romanov
      Jones - Jenkins

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    5. @Estref and @Quilava
      Thank you!

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    6. @Quilava Thank you for taking your time making that list. Much appreciated! Just one small thing, Karl Koppel (EST) replaces Juri Frischer (1984) and not Kristo Tohver :D

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  5. Hello ,I want to ask where I can see the list for the new assistant referee ,thanks !

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  6. And from Slovakia Another unacceptable proposal (This time Marhefka - a total of 4 in recent years).

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  7. Edina Alves 🇧🇷 was invited to UEFA's winter training course.

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    1. She should then be the CONMEBOL guest at Women's EURO 2025, we could dare to say.

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  8. Pawson has done more European games in the past year than most other English FIFA referee's so it could have been his choice to step down or maybe it was down to his age. No surprise that Barrott is his replacement despite him only making his Premier League debut last year. Burgin also added to the women's list because of Welch retiring. She did the recent Chelsea vs Man City WSL game so probably the expected choice.

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  9. Dabanovic Nikola is an elite category, but the handicap witch is called montenegro did not allow him.

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    1. I'm sorry, but I genuinely don't understand why Dabanovic has such a big following on this blog. I've never been convinced by him in any game I've watched him, never really fully accepted by the players as well not particulary great in technical aspect either, certainly not at an elite level. But the same could be said for referees like Sidiropoulos and Grinfeeld, who are still hanging around after years of poor and below expected level performances, especially in the Greek's case...

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    2. He had several excellent appointments and failed the test. It has happened to many others before and will happen to many others in the future

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  10. Not a good start for the Dutch referees this weekend either. An unbelievable big mistake by VAR Van der Laan.
    https://x.com/ESPNnl/status/1870220766555582718

    Immediately after the match, which ended 1-1, the KNVB informed the PEC that the offside decision had been a error.

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    1. Of course, even if the goal had been allowed, there would have been plenty of criticism that the ball had not stopped. Either way, it was not a good mood.

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