33rd UEFA Advanced Course for Top Referees - List of Participants

The 33rd UEFA Advanced Course for Top Referees will be held in Greece.

As it was for previous years, all Elite referees (unless a few exceptions) have been invited, and there will be a selection from Category 1. To complete the participants, a group of selected VARs.  The missing Elite referees are Srđan Jovanović (SRB) and Sergei Karasev (RUS).This time men and women will work together, with focus on the next UEFA big tournament, 2025 Women's EURO, to be played in Switzerland on next July. Brazilian referee Edina Alves Batista will be the CONMEBOL guest.

Athens, Greece, 03-05 February 2025

Elite:

Irfan Peljto BIH 

Ivana Martinčić CRO 

Frida Mia Klarlund DEN 

Michael Oliver ENG 

Anthony Taylor ENG 

Marta Huerta De Aza ESP 

Olatz Rivera Olmedo ESP 
Jesús Gil Manzano ESP 
Alejandro José Hernández Hernández ESP 

José María Sánchez Martínez ESP 

Lina Lehtovaara FIN 

Stéphanie Frappart FRA 

Clémen Turpin FRA 

Benoît Bastien FRA 

François Letexier FRA 

Riem Hussein GER 

Felix Zwayer GER 

Tobias Stieler GER 
Daniel Siebert GER 

Eleni Antoniou GRE 
Anastasios Sidiropoulos GRE 

Katalin Kulcsár HUN 

Orel Grinfeeld ISR 

Silvia Gasperotti ITA 

Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi ITA 

Marco Guida ITA 

Davide Massa ITA 

Maurizio Mariani ITA 

Ivana Projkovska MKD 

Danny Makkelie NED 

Serdar Gözübüyük NED 

Espen Eskås NOR 

Ewa Augustyn POL 

Szymon Marciniak POL 

Catarina Ferreira Campos POR 

Sandra Braz Bastos POR 

João  Pedro Silva Pinheiro POR 

Iuliana Elena Demetrescu ROU 

Ionela Alina Pesu ROU 

Istvan Kovacs ROU

Jelena Cvetković SRB 

Désirée Grundbacher SUI
Sandro Schärer SUI 
Ivan Kružliak SVK
Slavko Vinčić SVN

Tess Olofsson SWE

Glenn Nyberg SWE 

Halil Umut Meler TUR 

Cheryl Foster WAL 

Category 1:

Sebastian Gishamer AUT 

Erik Lambrechts BEL 

Lawrence Visser BEL 

Hristiyana Guteva BUL 

Georgi Kabakov BUL 

Morten Krogh DEN 

Christopher Kavanagh ENG 

Jérôme Brisard FRA 

Giorgi Kruashvili GEO 

Anastasios Papapetrou GRE 

Simone Sozza ITA 

Manfredas Lukjančukas LTU 

Donatas Rumšas LTU 

Andris Treimanis LVA 

Nikola Dabanović MNE 

Shona Shukrula NED 

Allard Lindhout NED 

Rohit Saggi NOR 

Damian Sylwestrzak POL 

António Emanuel Carvalho Nobre POR 

Horațiu Mircea Feșnic ROU 

Radu Marian Petrescu ROU 

John Beaton SCO 

Matej Jug SVN 
Rade Obrenović SVN 

Mykola Balakin UKR 

CONMEBOL Guest:

Edina Alves Batista BRA

VAR:

Bram van Driessche BEL

Jarred Gillett ENG

César Soto Grado ESP

Bastien Dechepy FRA 

Sören Storks GER 

Angelos Evangelou GRE

Aleandro Di Paolo ITA

Dennis Johan Higler NED

Piotr Lasyk POL

André Filipe Domingues Narciso POR

Cătălin Sorin Popa ROU

Andrew Dallas SCO

Alen Borošak SVN

Momčilo Marković SRB

On the same days, the 2025 UEFA Introductory Course for new referees from Europe on FIFA panel will take place. Here the invited officials, they are all the new names on international list, unless Russian Sergey Cheban and Ukrainian Liudmyla Telbukh (the latter was already a FIFA referee in past and this was just a return). 

Marta San Juan Casado AND

Artem Gasparyan ARM
Jakob Semler AUT

Sara Telek AUT
Simon Bourdeaud'hui BEL
Anton Lashuk BLR
Mateo Erceg CRO
Konstantinos Fellas CYP
Karel Rouček CZE
Sam Barrott ENG

Melissa Burgin ENG

Elisabeth Calvo Valentín ESP
Karl Koppel EST

Satu Miettunen FIN
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

Sapir Gaya Berman ISR
Mariia Glekova ISR
Gal Levi ISR
Matteo Marcenaro ITA
Matteo Marchetti ITA

Tatjana Lavrentika LVA
Igor Bosca MDA
Vlatko Ilioski MKD
Marius Hansen Grøtta NOR
Daniel Higraff NOR

Anna Adamska POL
Patryk Gryckiewicz POL
Wojciech Myć POL
João António Ferreira Gonçalves POR

Sara Fernanda Moreira Alves POR
Szabolcs Roland Kovacs ROU
Rares George Vidican ROU
Ross Shearer Hardie SCO

Abbie Hendry SCO
Sven Wolfensberger SUI
Oscar Johnson SWE

Hanna Laajanen SWE

Asen Albayrak TUR

Hatice Aydin Duygu TUR
Oguzhan Çakir TUR
Mehme Türkmen TUR

Klym Zabroda UKR
Aaron Wyn Jones WAL