FIFA has finally released the list of selected officials for 2026 World Cup, to be played in Canada, Mexico and USA. Team One is ready!
Referees
Abdulrahman AL JASSIM
Khalid AL TURAIS
Yusuke ARAKI
Omar Abdulkadir ARTAN
Pierre ATCHO
Ivan BARTON
Dahane BEIDA
Juan Gabriel BENITEZ
Juan CALDERON
Raphael CLAUS
Ismail ELFATH
Espen ESKAS
Alireza FAGHANI
Yael FALCON PEREZ
Drew FISCHER
Cristian GARAY
Katia GARCIA
Mustapha GHORBAL
Alejandro HERNANDEZ
Dario HERRERA
Jalal JAYED
Campbell-Kirk KAWANA-WAUGH
Istvan KOVACS
Francois LETEXIER
Ning MA
Adham MAKHADMEH
Danny MAKKELIE
Szymon MARCINIAK
Maurizio MARIANI
Hector Said MARTINEZ
Amin MOHAMED
Oshane NATION
Glenn NYBERG
Michael OLIVER
Omar AL ALI
Kevin ORTEGA
Tori PENSO
Joao PINHEIRO
Ramon ABBATI
Cesar RAMOS
Andres ROJAS
Sandro SCHAERER
Ilgiz TANTASHEV
Anthony TAYLOR
Gustavo TEJERA
Facundo TELLO
Abongile TOM
Clement TURPIN
Jesus VALENZUELA
Slavko VINCIC
Wilton SAMPAIO
Felix ZWAYER
Assistant Referees
Amos ABEIGNE
Mahmoud ABOUELREGAL
Mostafa AKARKAD
Mohammed AL ABAKRY
Mohamed AL HAMMADI
Mohammad AL KALAF
Saoud AL MAQALEH
Taleb AL MARRI
Ahmad AL ROALLE
Lyes ARFA
Kyle ATKINS
Carlos BARREIRO
Micheal BARWEGEN
Isaak BASHEVKIN
Mahbod BEIGI
Juan Pablo BELATTI
Gary BESWICK
Daniele BINDONI
Marco BISGUERRA
Zakaria BRINSI
Bruno BOSCHILIA
Bruno PIRES
Stuart BURT
Eduardo CARDOZO
Gabriel CHADE
Danilo MANIS
Nicolas DANOS
Stephane DE ALMEIDA
Jan DE VRIES
Maximiliano DEL YESSO
Christian DIETZ
Boris DITSOGA
Jan Erik ENGAN
Rodrigo FIGUEIREDO
Timur GAYNULLIN
Mokrane GOURARI
Alexander GUZMAN
Ahmed HOSSAM TAHA
Jerson SANTOS
Bruno JESUS
Robert KEMPTER
Tomaz KLANCNIK
Andraz KOVACIC
Adam KUPSIK
George LAKRINDIS
James LINDSAY
Tomasz LISTKIEWICZ
Walter LOPEZ
Luciano MAIA
James MAINWARING
Mihai MARICA
Brooke MAYO
Jun MIHARA
Juan Carlos MORA
David MORAN
Tulio MORENO
Alberto MORIN
Cyril MUGNIER
Cristian NAVARRO
Kathryn NESBITT
Elvis NOUPUE
Adam NUNN
Michael ORUE
Benjamin PAGES
Corey PARKER
Antonio PUPIRO
Rafael ALVES
Christian RAMIREZ
Sandra RAMIREZ
Mehdi RAHMOUNI
Jose RETAMAL
Miguel ROCHA
Facundo RODRIGUEZ
Milciades SALDIVAR
Diego SANCHEZ
Zakhele SIWELA
Andreas SODERKVIST
Hessel STEEGSTRA
Nicolas TARAN
Alberto TEGONI
Isaac TREVIS
Andrey TSAPENKO
Ferencz TUNYOGI
Jorge URREGO
Caleb WALES
Abbes Akram ZERHOUNI
Fei ZHOU
Video Match Officials
Khamis AL-MARRI
Abdullah ALSHEHRI
Mahmoud ASHOUR
Ivan BEBEK
Jerome BRISARD
Bastian DANKERT
Carlos DEL CERRO GRANDE
Marco DI BELLO
Joe DICKERSON
Rob DIEPERINK
Hamza EL FARIQ
Shaun EVANS
Fu MING
Nicolas GALLO
Antonio GARCIA
Jarred GILLETT
Leodan GONZALEZ
Tatiana GUZMAN
Dennis HIGLER
Tomasz KWIATKOWSKI
Juan LARA
Hernan MASTRANGELO
Erick MIRANDA
Mohammed OBAID KHADIM
Guillermo PACHECO
Fedayi SAN
Juan SOTO
Rodolpho TOSKI
Bram VAN DRIESSCHE
Armando VILLARREAL
Big surpise..
ReplyDeleteWhat is the suprise ??
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all officials selected
ReplyDeleteSome surprises,not just one...
ReplyDeleteSo we have to form trios to figure out, who is planned as reserve referee, right?
ReplyDeleteBecause there are not two ARs for every referee.
Schärer is a reserve referee, his AR2 Jonas Erni isn‘t on the list.
DeleteSame for Hernández Hernández, AR Diego Sánchez Rojo is on the list, but not José Enrique Naranjo Perez
DeleteCongrats Felix for your hard work. 🥹 and Congrats to all of the referees 🩷
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for joao pinheiro the best referee in Europe now
ReplyDeleteSource? PDF-file?
ReplyDeleteNo info at fifa.com
Delete52 Referees, 8 AFC, 15 UEFA, 7 CAF, 9 CONCACAF, 12 CONMEBOL, 1 OCEANIA. I think that 12 of them will be just a support referee.
ReplyDelete2 AFC, 2/3 UEFA (Schares for sure), 2 CAF, 2 CONCACAF, 3/4 CONMEBOL (one brazilian Claus (?), one argentinian (Herrera?) and Rojas).
Hernandez Hernandez seems just a support referee.
DeleteFrom Concacaf, Nation will be a support for sure, probably Garcia and Calderon (or Martinez).
From Afc Ma, Akari and Makhadmeh ?
Artan, Tom, Araki, Al-Ali, Ma, Nation, Calderon, Garcia, D. Herrera, Claus, Ortega, Rojas, Hernandez and Scharer?
DeleteThere are sixteen host venues so fourteen reserves, give-or-take, looks about right?
Wow, Al-Turais and Kawana didn't get a second linesman either and must be reserve! So it seems a perfect sixteen by FIFA.
DeleteUnlike Penso (Nesbitt, Mayo) it seems García only has one of her ARs (Ramírez, Karen Díaz is missing) with her, indicating Support duty.
ReplyDeleteSo, no source?
ReplyDelete17 referees only have one AR. Are they all reserved? So many?
ReplyDeleteAm I missing one? I counted:
DeleteAFC (4): Al-Ali, Al-Turais, Araki, Ma
CAF (2): Artan, Tom
CONCACAF (3): Calderon, Garcia, Nation
CONMEBOL (4): Claus, Herrera, Ortega, Rojas
OFC (1): Kawana
UEFA (2): Hernandez, Scharer
Big surprise Al Turais and Kawana...
DeleteSo It seems 36 referees and 16 support referee (reserve).
35+17
DeleteSánchez Martínez OUT. Wow!!! Yesterday Rossetti was observing his match. Could be a punish for this weak performance and others this season in UCL (Atalanta-Bayern)
ReplyDeleteEven if he was chosen he would have probably only acted as FO like Hernandez will be.
DeleteReferees with trios:
ReplyDeleteAFC: Makhadmeh, Al-Jassim, Faghani & Tantashev
CAF: Beida, Omar, Ghorbal, Atcho & Jayed
Concacaf: Elfath, Penso, Ramos, Fischer, Barton & Martínez
Conmebol: Sampaio, Abatti, Tello, Falcón, Valenzuela, Garay, Tejera & Benítez
UEFA: Turpin, Letexier, Oliver, Taylor, Makkelie, Marciniak, Mariani, Nyberg, Eskas, Pinheiro, Vincic, Zwayer
Referees without trios:
AFC: Ma Ning, Araki, Al-Ali & Al-Turais
CAF: Artan & Tom
Concacaf: Calderón, García & Nation
Conmebol: Rojas, Claus, Herrera & Ortega
UEFA: Hernández Hernández & Schärer
OFC: Kawana-Waugh
Do you think the ones without 2ARs will be reserved? Also the same case for last World Cup?
ReplyDeleteRosetti should just resign. He has successfully messed up UEFA referees and refereeing.
ReplyDeleteWith SAOT do we still need an AVR2 who is an assistant ?
ReplyDeleteIt was obvious he wasn't going to be picked due to not being at recent seminars but still think Siebert will consider himself unlucky. Bad few years for Spain with only 1 group game for Manzano in 2024 and now Hernandez likely to only be FO this tournament (Only 1 AR picked) which is a good achievement for him but he's been helped by Manzano and Martinez struggling.
ReplyDeleteNo surprises for England although it's interesting that Oliver has had a different AR2 for the last 3 international tournaments (despite his previous ones still being on FIFA list)
DeleteWll Omar abdikadir artan wad gaartay hamigaga oo aha in magacaga la arko shashadaha dunida mida ogu sareysa ee ah inad kamid noqotay fifa best
ReplyDeleteHampalyo sxp
UEFA
ReplyDeleteAnthony TAYLOR : Gary BESWICK, Adam NUNN
Clement TURPIN : Nicolas DANOS, Benjamin PAGES
Danny MAKKELIE : Hessel STEEGSTRA, Jan DE VRIES
Espen ESKAS : Jan Erik ENGAN, Isaak BASHEVKIN
Felix ZWAYER : Robert KEMPTER, Christian DIETZ
Francois LETEXIER : Cyril MUGNIER, Mehdi RAHMOUNI
Glenn NYBERG : Mahbod BEIGI, Andreas SODERKVIST
Istvan KOVACS : Mihai MARICA, Ferencz TUNYOGI
Joao PINHEIRO : Bruno JESUS, Luciano MAIA
Maurizio MARIANI : Daniele BINDONI, Alberto TEGONI
Sandro SCHAERER : Stephane DE ALMEIDA*
Slavko VINCIC : Tomaz KLANCNIK, Andraz KOVACIC
Szymon MARCINIAK : Tomasz LISTKIEWICZ, Adam KUPSIK
CONMEBOL
Andres ROJAS : Alexander GUZMAN*
Cristian GARAY : Jose RETAMAL, Miguel ROCHA
Dario HERRERA : Cristian NAVARRO*
Facundo TELLO : Juan Pablo BELATTI, Gabriel CHADE
Gustavo TEJERA : Carlos BARREIRO*
Jesus VALENZUELA : Jorge URREGO, Tulio MORENO
Juan Gabriel BENITEZ : Eduardo CARDOZO, Milciades SALDIVAR
Kevin ORTEGA : Michael ORUE*
Ramon ABBATI : Danilo MANIS, Rafael ALVES
Wilton SAMPAIO : Bruno BOSCHILIA, Bruno PIRES
Yael FALCON PEREZ : Maximiliano DEL YESSO, Facundo RODRIGUEZ
CONCACAF
Cesar RAMOS : Alberto MORIN, Marco BISGUERRA
Drew FISCHER : Micheal BARWEGEN, Lyes ARFA
Ismail ELFATH : Kyle ATKINS, Corey PARKER
Ivan BARTON : David MORAN, Antonio PUPIRO
Juan CALDERON : Juan Carlos MORA*
Katia GARCIA : Sandra RAMIREZ*
Said MARTINEZ : Walter LOPEZ, Christian RAMIREZ
Tori PENSO : Brooke MAYO, Kathryn NESBITT
CAF
Amin MOHAMED : Mahmoud ABOUELREGAL, Ahmed HOSSAM TAHA
Dahane BEIDA : Jerson SANTOS*
Mahmood Ali Mahmood ISMAIL : Elvis NOUPUE*
Mustapha GHORBAL : Mokrane GOURARI, Abbes Akram ZERHOUNI
AFC
Abdulrahman AL JASSIM : Taleb AL MARRI, Saoud AL MAQALEH
Adham MAKHADMEH : Ahmad AL ROALLE, Mohammad AL KALAF
Khalid AL TURAIS : Mohammed AL ABAKRY*
Ning MA : Fei ZHOU*
OFC
Campbell-Kirk KAWANA-WAUGH : Isaac TREVIS*
Without Assistants referee
Abongile TOM
Alejandro HERNANDEZ
Alireza FAGHANI
Jalal JAYED
Omar Abdulkadir ARTAN
Omar AL ALI
Oshane NATION
Pierre ATCHO
Raphael CLAUS
Yusuke ARAKI
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