UEFA Referees Categories for the second part of 2025-26 season

The long-awaited time has arrived. UEFA is working at new categories, this time with very significant changes. 

Only reliable information will be published  in this post, as well as the PDF documents when they will be available. 

New UEFA Elite Category Referees

Men

Erik Lambrechts BEL

Christopher Kavanagh ENG

Nicolas Walsh SCO

Sven Jablonski GER

Donatas Rumšas LTU

Rade Obrenović  SVN

Women

Emanuela Rusta ALB 

New UEFA First Category Referees

Men

Jasper Vergoote BEL

Radoslav Gidzhenov BUL

Patrik Kolarić CRO

Javier Alberola Rojas ESP

Jérémie Pignard FRA

Daniel Schlager GER

Rob Hennessy IRL

Andrea Colombo ITA

Edgars Maļcevs LVA

Ishmael Barbara MLT

Miloš Milanović SRB

Michal Očenáš SVK

Martin Matoša SVN

Oleksii Derevinskiy UKR

Women

Emily Heaslip ENG

Tatyana Sorokopudova KAZ

Filipa Pereira Cunha POR 

Milica Milovanović SRB 

Anastasya Mylopoulou GRE 

Martina Molinaro ITA 

María Eugenia Gil Soriano ESP

Sofiya Prychyna UKR 

Karoline Marie Jensen NOR 

Vanja Janković SVN 

Demotion from Elite to Category 1:

Men 

Anastasios Sidiropoulos GRE 

The information provided may be incomplete as the process is still in course. To know the removed names from all categories, mostly due to retirement or other reasons, we have to wait for the official lists.