2027 Under 21 Euro Qualifiers, September 2025 games.
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| Ross Hardie SCO will referee Iceland - Faroe Islands |
Thursday 4 September 2025
Group A
16:00 CET - Turku (Veritas Stadion)
FINLAND - SAN MARINO
Referee: Seth Charles Sheehan-Galia GIB
Assistant Referee 1: Michael Gerard Macias GIB
Assistant Referee 2: Faustino Dennis Guerrero Chini GIB
Fourth Official: Timothy Reoch GIB
UEFA Referee Observer: Sokol Jareci ALB
UEFA Delegate: Maurice Johnston NIR
Group I
17:00 CET - Gori, GEO (Tengiz Burjanadzis Stadioni)
BELARUS - BELGIUM
Referee: Aleko Aptsiauri GEO
Assistant Referee 1: Davit Chigogidze GEO
Assistant Referee 2: Boris Jvania GEO
Fourth Official: Bakari Bregadze GEO
UEFA Referee Observer: Ádám Farkas HUN
UEFA Delegate: Theanó Rasoúli GRE
Group D
18:00 CET - Nisporeni (Stadionul Central Nisporeni)
MOLDOVA - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Referee: Klym Zabroda UKR
Assistant Referee 1: Valentyn Kutsev UKR
Assistant Referee 2: Oleksandr Korniyko UKR
Fourth Official: Dmytro Kubryak UKR
UEFA Referee Observer: Giorgi Vadachkoria GEO
UEFA Delegate: Fredy Fürst POL
Group C
19:00 CET - Reykjavík (AVIS völlurinn)
ICELAND - FAROE ISLANDS
Referee: Ross Hardie SCO
Assistant Referee 1: Douglas Potter SCO
Assistant Referee 2: Jonathan Bell SCO
Fourth Official: Duncan Nicolson SCO
UEFA Referee Observer: Mika Peltola FIN
UEFA Delegate: Helen Conley ENG
Friday 5 September 2025
Group A
17:30 CET - Iași (Stadionul Emil Alexandrescu)
ROMANIA - KOSOVO
Referee: Mehmet Türkmen TUR
Assistant Referee 1: Deniz Caner Özaral TUR
Assistant Referee 2: Mehmet Salih Mazlum TUR
Fourth Official: Adnan Deniz Kayatepe TUR
UEFA Referee Observer: Paweł Gil POL
UEFA Delegate: Emmanuelle Puttaert BEL
Group B
18:00 CET - Uherské Hradiště (Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty)
CZECHIA - SCOTLAND
Referee: Florian Badstübner GER
Assistant Referee 1: Sven Waschitzki GER
Assistant Referee 2: Philipp Hüwe GER
Fourth Official: Florian Exner GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Daniele Orsato ITA
UEFA Delegate: Kristoffer James Löfberg SWE
Mentor for Delegate: Tarik Shamel ENG
Group C
18:00 CET - Tallinn (Kadrioru staadion)
ESTONIA - SWITZERLAND
Referee: Igor Boșca MDA
Assistant Referee 1: Alexandru Sajin MDA
Assistant Referee 2: Vadim Roșca MDA
Fourth Official: Andrei Breguța MDA
UEFA Referee Observer: Robert Schörgenhofer AUT
UEFA Delegate: Jan Kořínek CZE
Group D
18:00 CET - Skalica (Štadión MFK Skalica)
SLOVAKIA - ANDORRA
Referee: Vlatko Ilioski MKD
Assistant Referee 1: Daniel Vasilevski MKD
Assistant Referee 2: Vladimir Mitrevski MKD
Fourth Official: Stojanče Stojanov MKD
UEFA Referee Observer: Alain Bieri SUI
UEFA Delegate: Edgar Manukyan ARM
Group E
18:00 CET - Falkenberg (Falcon Alkoholfri Arena)
SWEDEN - ARMENIA
Referee: Anton Lašuk BLR
Assistant Referee 1: Dzianis Jemiaĺjančykaŭ BLR
Assistant Referee 2: Anton Palujanaŭ BLR
Fourth Official: Viktar Šymusik BLR
UEFA Referee Observer: Stefano Podeschi SMR
UEFA Delegate: Mark Heap ENG
Mentor for Delegate: Kris Bellon BEL
Group E
18:00 CET - Kraków (Stadion Cracovii)
POLAND - NORTH MACEDONIA
Referee: Karel Rouček CZE
Assistant Referee 1: Lukáš Machač CZE
Assistant Referee 2: Jiří Kříž CZE
Fourth Official: Jan Všetečka CZE
UEFA Referee Observer: Joeri Van De Velde BEL
UEFA Delegate: Marc Van Craen BEL
Mentor for Delegate: Peadar Ryan IRL
Group G
18:00 CET - Mostar (Stadion HŠK Zrinjski)
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - ISRAEL
Referee: Márton Rúsz HUN
Assistant Referee 1: István Albert HUN
Assistant Referee 2: Gergő Vígh-Tarsonyi HUN
Fourth Official: Bence Csonka HUN
UEFA Referee Observer: Babək Quliyev AZE
UEFA Delegate: Vyacheslav Semyonov RUS
Group H
18:00 CET - Druskininkai (LSC Sporto kompleksas “Druskininkai”)
LITHUANIA - UKRAINE
Referee: Daniel Higraff NOR
Assistant Referee 1: Øystein Simon Ytterland NOR
Assistant Referee 2: Ole Andreas Skogsrud Haukåsen NOR
Fourth Official: Mathias Støfringshaug NOR
UEFA Referee Observer: Michael Johansen DEN
UEFA Delegate: Laura Dougan SCO
Group E
18:15 CET - La Spezia (Stadio Alberto Picco)
ITALY - MONTENEGRO
Referee: Sven Wolfensberger SUI
Assistant Referee 1: Marco Zürcher SUI
Assistant Referee 2: Claudio Dos Santos SUI
Fourth Official: Anojen Kanagasingam SUI
UEFA Referee Observer: Bernardino González Vázquez ESP
UEFA Delegate: Péter Kézdi HUN
Mentor for Delegate: Panagiotis Chatzialexiou GER
Group B
18:30 CET - Pazardzhik (Stadion “Georgi Benkovski”)
BULGARIA - GIBRALTAR
Referee: Artem Gasparyan ARM
Assistant Referee 1: Vanik Simonyan ARM
Assistant Referee 2: Narek Poghosyan ARM
Fourth Official: Zaven Hovhannisyan ARM
UEFA Referee Observer: Charálambos Kalogerópoulos GRE
UEFA Delegate: Targo Kaldoja EST
Group C
18:30 CET - Lorient (Stade Yves Allainmat)
FRANCE - LUXEMBOURG
Referee: Jakob Semler AUT
Assistant Referee 1: Mattias Hartl AUT
Assistant Referee 2: Thomas Kaplan AUT
Fourth Official: Harald Lechner AUT
UEFA Referee Observer: Lutz Michael Fröhlich GER
UEFA Delegate: Rasmus Brandhof DEN
Mentor for Delegate: Mark Blackbourne ENG
Group A
20:00 CET - Soria (Estadio Los Pajaritos)
SPAIN - CYPRUS
Referee: Mateo Erceg CRO
Assistant Referee 1: Hrvoje Radić CRO
Assistant Referee 2: Alen Jakšić CRO
Fourth Official: Ante Terzić CRO
UEFA Referee Observer: Jonathan Lardot BEL
UEFA Delegate: Tibor Vámos HUN
Group B
20:30 CET - Barcelos (Estádio Cidade de Barcelos)
PORTUGAL - AZERBAIJAN
Referee: Konstandínos Fellás CYP
Assistant Referee 1: Pávlos Georgíou CYP
Assistant Referee 2: Giórgos Charalámbous CYP
Fourth Official: Dimítris Solomoú CYP
UEFA Referee Observer: Dejan Filipović SRB
UEFA Delegate: Ian Atkins ENG
Referees who handled games in Arabia this weekend:
ReplyDeleteUAE - Kovacs
Saudi - Badstubner
Egypt - Alberola Rojas
As for Alberola, I watched his game on Saturday evening (Al-Ahly Cairo vs. FC Pyramids) and he had a good performance in a match of generally normal difficulty.
Chefren, do you expect a promising future based on what you've seen from Alberola? And how do you think UEFA views him currently?
Deletewithout any previous qualifying matches.
I think that UEFA has a big expectation.
DeleteHe attended the Under 19 tournament and he is included in Talent and Mentor for 2025. Surely they want him as Spain next Elite referee.
So it's up to his career!
Very important to see which games he will get on next months, during the league phase of clubs competitions.
Conference League debut on last December.
I think that it's possible in case of good performance, and maybe after one or two further Conference League games, he could even get an EL debut (we will see).
En España desde esta temporada a los árbitros se les conoce ya solo por nombre y apellido como en el resto de Europa. Se deja de utilizar el segundo apellido.
ReplyDeleteEjemplo. ALBEROLA ROJAS pasa a ser JAVIER ALBEROLA
1) Esto es un foro de arbitraje internacional, escribe en inglés o usa traductor si no puedes.
Delete2) I refuse, and will always refer to Spanish referees by their two surnames, don't care about the Francoist origin of the practice and yadda yadda. Utter woke nonsense by new CTA-RFEF.
In Spain, starting this season, referees are known only by their first and last names, as in the rest of Europe. Second surnames are no longer used.
DeleteExample: ALBEROLA ROJAS becomes JAVIER ALBEROLA
Eredivisie:
ReplyDeleteExcelsior Rotterdam - FC Twente
Referee: Ingmar Oostrom / VAR: Jochem Kamphuis
RC dicision after VAR intervention
https://youtu.be/mjzgtnTU-XY?t=32
What do you think? Daan Rots would have had a good chance to shoot if he hadn't been taken down, and I think it's hard to deny that. I think the logical conclusion was for RC to call a foul. However, the KNVB's prosecutor gave up on seeking a suspension for RC, saying that the foul is not sufficiently proven.
Perhaps it's the same as when Feyenoorder Givairo Read was acquitted by the disciplinary committee a few months ago. I cannot understand this at all, but it seems that in the Netherlands today, it is impossible to prove such foul play with video footage. Well, the KNVB's referee committee, the referees on the field, and the VARs indoors probably won't care at all. By the way, until the fourth matchround Kamphuis as VAR had already called the referee monitor 3 times and forced to give 3 RCs. In my opinion, all of them were correct.
To be honest, I’m not entirely convinced this should be seen as a clear-cut foul. The nature of the challenge could just as well be interpreted as an unfortunate collision. A VAR intervention + RC feels excessive in this context, especially considering the location on the pitch — out wide, near the edge of the box.
DeleteBy contrast, Read’s foul struck me as a much clearer case of tripping. That he ultimately escaped punishment was, in all likelihood, down to Feyenoord’s lawyer and the timing within the season — the penultimate match.
I completely agree with you, as this must not necessarily be considered as a foul. However, for me the VAR intervention is 100% necessary. For me there are two possible outcomes in this situation: it‘s either no foul/play on or foul —> DOGSO and consequently a red card. In case the foul is whistled and no red card is issued, I fully expect an intervention as this is no possible outcome to this scene considering the LotG and therefore a clear and obvious error. I still think the foul decision itself is not a clear error, so DFK/RC when decided on field should stand (same if no foul was whistled). Once at the monitor the referee still has the option to make the no foul call, instead of deciding to give a red card.
DeleteAgreed on the discussion as to whether or not a foul is committed, both could be argumented Imo, but this is a clear (clear!) Dogso scenario (all boxes ticked without any doubt). So a free kick + Yc can’t be an accepted solution, which makes an intervention mandatory. Then after Ofr no foul or free kick + Rc could be the possible outcomes.
DeleteI also agree that this is not 100% a foul play, and the decision that this is a foul play is not 100% error, so it was 'logical' for VAR to intervene as a DOGSO case. Unfortunately, in recent years, the KNVB's disciplinary committee has tended to avoid taking disciplinary action, even if it is not 100% error, saying that it is 'not sufficiently proven to be foul play.' This time, the prosecutors followed that line, which is probably the first time in my memory.
DeleteAs I've written here before, most football fans blindly believe that the disciplinary committee is always right and continue to criticise silent refereeing committees, referees and VARs.