2026 FIFA World Cup European Qualifiers, November 2025. Referee assignments for MD10.
Group F
15:00 CET - Budapest (Puskás Aréna)
HUNGARY - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Referee: Espen Eskås NOR
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Erik Engan NOR
Assistant Referee 2: Isaak Elias Bashevkin NOR
Fourth Official: Sigurd Kringstad NOR
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera ESP
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Kristoffer Hagenes NOR
UEFA Referee Observer: Helmut Fleischer GER
UEFA Delegate: Philippe Prudhon FRA
Group F
15:00 CET - Porto (Estádio do Dragão)
PORTUGAL - ARMENIA
Referee: Irfan Peljto BIH Assistant Referee 1: Senad Ibrišimbegović BIH
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Daniele Paterna ITA
UEFA Referee Observer: Mark Whitby WAL
UEFA Delegate: Samuel Dennison NIR
Group D
18:00 CET - Warsaw, POL (The Marshall Józef Piłsudski's Municipal Stadium of Legia Warsaw)
UKRAINE - ICELAND
Referee: Anthony Taylor ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Gary Beswick ENGAssistant Video Assistant Referee: Darren England ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: Gediminas Mažeika LTU
UEFA Delegate: Eduard Kindle LIE
Group K
18:00 CET - Leskovac (Dubočica Stadium)
SERBIA - LATVIA
Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea ESP
Assistant Referee 1: Iker de Francisco Grijalba ESP Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz ESP
UEFA Referee Observer: Paolo Dondarini ITA
UEFA Delegate: Artur Azaryan ARM
Group K
18:00 CET - Tirana (Air Albania Stadium)
ALBANIA - ENGLAND
Referee: Marco Guida ITA
Assistant Referee 1: Giorgio Peretti ITAAssistant Video Assistant Referee: Valerio Marini ITA
UEFA Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen NOR
UEFA Delegate: Angelo Chetcuti MLT
Group D
18:00 CET - Baku (Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium)
AZERBAIJAN - FRANCE
Referee: Andris Treimanis LVA
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Kristaps Ratnieks LVA
UEFA Referee Observer: Aleksandar Stavrev MKD
UEFA Delegate: Anna Kapasoglou GRE
Group I
20:45 CET - Milan (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)
ITALY - NORWAY
Referee: Alejandro José Hernández Hernández ESP
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Valentín Pizarro Gómez ESP
UEFA Referee Observer: Marinus Koopman NED
UEFA Delegate: Iain Blair SCO
Group I
20:45 CET - Chişinău, MDA (Stadionul Zimbru)
ISRAEL - MOLDOVA
Referee: Allard Lindhout NED
Assistant Referee 2: Johan Balder NED
Fourth Official: Joey Kooij NED
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Edwin Van De Graaf NED
UEFA Referee Observer: William Collum SCO
UEFA Delegate: Michal Mertinyák SVK
De Burgos is officially new Spanish n⁰3
ReplyDeleteBut Hernandez got the better appointment in this set...
DeleteOr do you mean Gil Manzano is n°4 now?
Manzano is still a great referee. Don’t think he is No. 4.
Deletelast week Fenerbahce made an official complaint to UEFA about referee Allard Lindhout..
ReplyDeleteso can we say big support to Allard lindhout by uefa ?
No, because he gets a meaningless game. Actually that's a bad appointment for a referee with CL experience, I think.
DeleteAn excellent match for Eskas, one that directly decides who goes to the playoffs, and in some crazy scenario Hungary could even reach the World Cup. Eskas continues to stay on the edge of the TOP level and could earn himself a ticket to the WC.
ReplyDeleteI thought Peljto would get a “stronger” match, but things aligned in a way that this one also became a must-win for Portugal, so it will be monitored closely by the organization. I’m not really sure about his current status after he wasn’t appointed last Champions League round. Whether Rocchi, as his observer, was dissatisfied with his performance in RMA–MAR, I don’t know, but we’ll see what happens.
Taylor, after a questionable performance in the CL, gets an OK match, but with this appointment UEFA showed the advantage Oliver currently has.
The other referees don’t have some of the most important fixtures, but they still need to prove themselves on the biggest stage for the future. Burgos, Lindhout, Treimanis… they are probably not TOP level, but UEFA might continue giving them more opportunities. Hernández and Guida are there, but realistically they are not WC candidates.