Sunday, 24 May 2026

Domestic League Appointments

Referees in charge of domestic games, starting from Friday 22 May 2026. 

Sven Jablonski to referee German Cup final 


PREMIER LEAGUE


Sunday 24/05

17:00 Brighton & Hove Albion - Manchester United
Samuel Barrott - Simon Bennett, Blake Antrobus - Ruebyn Ricardo
[Stuart Attwell, Steve Meredith]

17:00 Burnley - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Andrew Kitchen - Wade Smith, Andrew Dallison - Adam Herczeg
[Constantine Hatzidakis, Neil Davies]

17:00 Crystal Palace - Arsenal
Farai Hallam - Marc Perry, Matthew Wilkes - Tom Nield
[Nick Hopton, Craig Taylor]

17:00 Fulham - Newcastle United
Robert Jones - Nick Greenhalgh, Sian Massey-Ellis - Samuel Allison
[James Bell, Peter Wright]

17:00 Liverpool - Brentford
Darren England - Scott Ledger, Akil Howson - Thomas Kirk
[Tony Harrington, Adrian Holmes]

17:00 Manchester City - Aston Villa
Andrew Madley - Richard West, Simon Long - David Webb
[Timothy Wood, Jarred Gillett]

17:00 Nottingham Forest - Bournemouth
Craig Pawson - Lee Betts, Alistair Nelson - Gavin Ward
[Paul Howard, Natalie Aspinall]

17:00 Sunderland - Chelsea
Christopher Kavanagh - Daniel Cook, Ian Hussin - Lewis Smith
[Matthew Donohue, Edward Smart]

17:00 Tottenham Hotspur - Everton
Michael Oliver - Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring - Robert Madley
[Paul Tierney, Mark Scholes]

17:00 West Ham United - Leeds United
Anthony Taylor - Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn - Stephen Martin
[John Brooks, Daniel Robathan]




SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF FINAL

Saturday 23/05

16:30 Hull City - Middlesbrough
Jarred Gillett - Neil Davies, Steven Meredith - Michael Salisbury
[Stuart Attwell, Constantine Hatzidakis]




SERIE A ENILIVE

Friday 22/05

20:45 Fiorentina - Atalanta
Mario Perri - Federico Votta, Matteo Pressato - Davide Massa
[Marco Di Bello, Marco Serra]

Saturday 23/05

18:00 Bologna - Internazionale Milano
Kevin Bonacina - Gilberto Laghezza, Andrea Zezza - Matteo Marcenaro
[Ivano Pezzuto, Niccolò Baroni]

20:45 Lazio - Pisa
Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi - Andrea Niedda, Marco Emmanuele - Davide Di Marco
[Davide Ghersini, Marco Piccinini]

Sunday 24/05

15:00 Parma - Sassuolo
Niccolò Turrini - Davide Imperiale, Marco Trinchieri - Livio Marinelli
[Antonio Giua, Ivano Pezzuto]

18:00 Napoli - Udinese
Andrea Zanotti - Pasquale Capaldo, Mattia Pascarella - Gianluca Manganiello
[Alessandro Prontera, Luca Pairetto]

20:45 Cremonese - Como
Fabio Maresca - Dario Cecconi, Domenico Fontemurato - Andrea Calzavara
[Matteo Gariglio, Giacomo Camplone]

20:45 Hellas Verona - Roma
Simone Sozza - Marcello Rossi, Paolo Laudato - Ermanno Feliciani
[Francesco Meraviglia, Lorenzo Maggioni]

20:45 Lecce - Genoa
Daniele Doveri - Giorgio Peretti, Vito Mastrodonato - Giuseppe Mucera
[Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni, Giacomo Paganessi]

20:45 Milan - Cagliari
Marco Guida - Fabiano Preti, Filippo Bercigli - Giovanni Ayroldi
[Rosario Abisso, Daniele Chiffi]

20:45 Torino - Juventus
Luca Zufferli - Giovanni Baccini, Alessandro Lo Cicero - Andrea Colombo
[Aleandro Di Paolo, Valerio Marini]




SERIE BKT - PROMOTION PLAY-OFF FINAL (I)

Sunday 24/05

20:00 Catanzaro - Monza
Matteo Marchetti - Alessio Berti, Valerio Colarossi - Valerio Crezzini
[Federico Dionisi, Davide Ghersini]




SERIE BKT - RELEGATION PLAY-OFF (II)

Friday 22/05

20:00 Südtirol - Bari (0:0)
Federico La Penna - Giuseppe Perrotti, Alessandro Costanzo - Francesco Fourneau
[Valerio Marini, Daniele Chiffi]




LALIGA EA SPORTS

Saturday 23/05

21:00 Celta de Vigo - Sevilla
Francisco José Hernández Maeso - Iván Massó Granado, Abraham Pérez Dapía - Guillermo Conejero Sánchez
[Valentín Pizarro Gómez, Javier Alberola Rojas]

21:00 Deportivo Alavés - Rayo Vallecano
Jesús Gil Manzano - Ángel Nevado Rodríguez, Javier Martínez Nicolás - Guillermo Cueto Amigo
[Pablo González Fuertes, Rubén Ávalos Barrera]

21:00 Espanyol de Barcelona - Real Sociedad
José Luis Munuera Montero - Antonio Ramón Martínez Moreno, Adrián Díaz González - Pablo Monterrubio Torres
[Iván Caparrós Hernández, Óliver de la Fuente Ramos]

21:00 Getafe - Osasuna
Alejandro Quintero González - José Francisco García Lozano, José Luis Martínez Serrato - Gonzalo González Páez
[Jorge Figueroa Vázquez, Luis Mario Milla Alvendiz]

21:00 Girona - Elche
Alejandro José Hernández Hernández - José Enrique Naranjo Pérez, Marcos Cerdán Aguilar - Fernando Bueno Prieto
[Carlos del Cerro Grande, David Gálvez Rascón]

21:00 Mallorca - Real Oviedo
José María Sánchez Martínez - Raúl Cabañero Martínez, Juan José López Mir - David López Jiménez
[Javier Iglesias Villanueva, César Soto Grado]

21:00 Real Betis - Levante
Mateo Busquets Ferrer - Íñigo Prieto López de Cerain, Gonzalo García González - Aleksandar Ivaylov Angelov
[Daniel Jesús Trujillo Suárez, Juan Luis Pulido Santana]

21:00 Real Madrid - Athletic
Juan Martínez Munuera - Diego Barbero Sevilla, Miguel Martínez Munuera - José Antonio Palomares Gutiérrez
[Raúl Martín González Francés, Víctor García Verdura]

21:00 Valencia - Barcelona
Adrián Cordero Vega - Israel Bárcena Rodríguez, Judit Romano García - Manuel Pozueta Rodríguez
[José Antonio López Toca, Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz]

Sunday 24/05

21:00 Villarreal - Atlético de Madrid





DFB-POKAL - FINAL

Saturday 23/05

20:00 Bayern München - Stuttgart
Sven Jablonski - Sascha Thielert, Eduard Beitinger - Frank Willenborg
[Sören Storks, Christian Fischer]




BUNDESLIGA - RELEGATION PLAY-OFF (II)

Monday 25/05

20:30 Paderborn - Wolfsburg (0:0)




2. BUNDESLIGA - RELEGATION PLAY-OFF

Friday 22/05

20:30 Rot-Weiss Essen - Greuther Fürth
Daniel Schlager - Rafael Foltyn, Tobias Fritsch - Felix Bickel
[Nicolas Winter, Arno Blos]

Tuesday 26/05

20:30 Greuther Fürth - Rot-Weiss Essen




COUPE DE FRANCE CR
ÉDIT AGRICOLE - FINAL

Friday 22/05

21:00 Lens - Nice
Jérôme Brisard - Alexis Auger, Thomas Luczynski - Bastien Dechepy
[Alexandre Castro, Guillaume Paradis]




TAÇA DE PORTUGAL - FINAL

Sunday 24/05

18:15 Sporting CP - Uni
ão Torreense
António Nobre - Nélson Pereira, Francisco Pereira - Hélder Malheiro
[Pedro Ferreira, Ricardo Moreira, Nuno Eiras]




LIGA PORTUGAL MEU SUPER - RELEGATION PLAY-OFF (I)

Saturday 23/05

21:30 Farense - Os Belenenses
João Gonçalves - Pedro Ribeiro, Miguel Martins - Miguel Fonseca
[Rui Oliveira, Fábio Monteiro]




VRIENDENLOTERIJ EREDIVISIE - UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE PLAY-OFF FINAL

Sunday 24/05

19:30 Ajax Amsterdam - Utrecht
Allard Lindhout - Johan Balder, Freek Vandeursen - Alex Bos
[Pol van Boekel, Patrick Inia]




KEUKEN KAMPIOEN PLAY-OFF - FINAL (II)

Saturday 23/05

20:00 Volendam - Willem II (2:1)
Sander van der Eijk - Rens Bluemink, Stefan de Groot - Ingmar Oostrom
[Dennis Higler, Rogier Honig]




ZİRAAT 
TÜRKİYE KUPASI - FINAL

Friday 22/05

19:45 Trabzonspor - Konyaspor
Halil Umut Meler - İbrahim Çağlar Uyarcan, Bersan Duran - Adnan Deniz Kayatepe
[Ömer Faruk Turtay, Anıl Usta, Gürcan Hasova]




SCHWEIZER CUP - FINAL

Sunday 24/05

14:00 Stade Lausanne Ouchy - St. Gallen
Luca Cibelli - Matthias Sbrissa, Christophe Loureiro - Nico Gianforte
[Luca Piccolo, Michèle Schmölzer]




SCOTTISH GAS MEN'S SCOTTISH CUP - FINAL

Saturday 23/05

16:00 Celtic - Dunfermline Athletic
Steven McLean - Francis Connor, Scott Anderson - Euan Anderson
[Matthew MacDermid, Gary Hilland]




UAE PRESIDENT'S CUP - FINAL

Friday 22/05

17:45 Al-Jazira - Al-Ain
Raphael Claus - Nailton Oliveira, Fabrini Bevilaqua (BRA) - María Laura Fortunato (ARG)
[Nicolás Lamolina (ARG), Tiago Martins (POR)]




LIGUE 1 MCDONALD'S - RELEGATION PLAY-OFF (I)

Tuesday 26/05

20:45 Saint-Étienne - Nice

21 comments:

  1. Hernandez² gets the crucial Girona v Elche game, a direct clash to avoid relegation.

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  2. Watching Turkish Cup final. Extremely challenging environment to survive as a referee. Flares constantly thrown from the stands, enormous amount of stoppages, players contesting everything... If Turkish FA can't solve security matters, the things won't get better there.

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    1. The last 10 minutes were a total chaos, would be nice to know the effective play time (would be veeery low!). The added six minutes were surely not enough, around nine minutes should've been added, and blowing the final whistle at 97:25 was premature as well but given how both sets of players and team members behaved... well, no one would like to referee in such environment.

      Meler awarded two controversial penalties, the first one to Konyaspor for holding was okay but the handball for which a penalty had been awarded in favour of Trabzonspor was a consequence of movement after a challenge from attacker - whether a foul or not is disputable.

      Many cards given, all of them mandatory. Some soft free kicks maybe but overall it was a really solid performance from Meler given the difficult circumstances.

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    2. 15' No card for SPA, Meler counting the covering defenders
      https://streamff.link/v/bff30857

      22' YC 5TRA for (team) persistent infringement, basically he got the card for two earlier 17TRA's fouls
      https://streambug.org/cv/68ae9f

      43' SPAlike but no real SPA nor reckless
      https://streamff.link/v/02178585

      45+1' Good advantage and YC 8TRA for reckless step on foot/ankle plus AR2 forgetting about the injured player while assessing offside :D
      https://streamff.link/v/4424532a

      45+4' YC 15TRA for dissent, excellent reaction by the referee!
      https://streamff.link/v/8bbe2940

      45+6' brilliantly spotted reckless use of arm of 16KON, mandatory YC issued
      https://streambug.org/cv/5078f1

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    3. 47' Possible YC 9KON for unsporting behaviour
      https://streamff.link/v/3a6c5972

      54' Penalty awarded for holding, correct no penalty after penalty execution - attacker is impeded by his teammate
      https://streambug.org/cv/970a67

      59' YC 9KON for SPA - fair challenge?
      https://streamff.link/v/df72010b

      65' YC 17KON for holding
      https://streamff.link/v/cb30e6ef

      76' Penalty awarded for handball; after rewatching it carefully, my congratulations to Meler - defender's reaction is not natural, he makes an extra movement not being a consequence of falling down, brilliant spot!
      https://streambug.org/cv/a6feb1

      79' YC 30TRA for goal celebration
      https://streamff.link/v/57d7186b

      81' GK handling the ball far longer than 8 seconds...
      https://streamff.link/v/3fbb01be

      83' YC 4KON for SPA, YC 20TRA for dissenting at AR1 - a foul or attacker looking for a contact?
      https://streamff.link/v/ffd90190

      87' - 90+8' - chaotic final minutes: confusion with a corner/goal kick, YCs to benches, YC 27TRA for time wasting, YC 4KON for dissent, YC 42TRA for holding, no card GK TRA for time wasting and provoking Konyaspor fans, 2YC to team member
      https://streambug.org/cv/1e3afa

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  3. French promotions and demotions have been published today:

    Referees demoted to Fédéral 2: Gaël Angoula (1982), Hakim Ben El Hadj (1978) & Benoît Millot (1982)

    Referees promoted to Fédéral 1: Geoffrey Kubler (1994), Aurélien Petit (1987) & Azzedine Souifi (1994)

    Assistant referees demoted to Fédéral 2: Youssef El Hamzaoui (1992), Cédric Favre (1983) & Julien Garrigues (1989)

    Assistant referees promoted to Fédéral 1: Bastien Courbet (1987), Florent Marmion (1991), Nicolas Rodrigues (1989) & Vianney Rozand (1989)

    Referees promoted to Fédéral 2: Soulaimane Chamel (1998), Gabriel Henry (1998), Pierre Retail (1996) & Thomas Vincent (2000)

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  4. New Adidas 26 referee kits being modelled in the Scottish cup final and I am not a fan, they look incredibly tacky and not as stylish as previous kits.

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    1. Stripes look bizarre on a referee kit. Good early no penalty decision though

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    2. Seth Galia with the yellow kit in Ireland - Grenada friendly, unluckily no better pictures
      https://www.instagram.com/p/DYbwCkVDIaW/

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    3. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/referee-steven-mclean-during-the-scottish-gas-mens-scottish-news-photo/2277263706

      This is an image of the black on show

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    4. Stripes on the short is probably one of the worst thing I’ve seen.

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    5. https://bildbyran.se/thumbnails/2605/18MI/BB260518MI078.jpg

      Already been used for basically the entire season here in Sweden

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    6. @elliot this is not looking good imo, something's weird.

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  5. Pretty easy championship playoff final for Gillett. The winning goal for Hull had an attacker in an offside position but he 100% didn't impact the play.

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  6. Jablonski super lenient in first half. Last warning after last warning for Stuttgart. Bayern players furios, heavy protest in half time.

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    1. I agree with this, it's a very odd performance without being a disastrous one so far. Incredibly lenient and slowly losing respect by players.

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  7. A very dramatic penalty award and signal by Jablonski on 90+1 for handball, correct decision

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  8. Bastien for nice saint etienne

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    1. Bastien has the 1st leg, Buquet the 2nd leg.

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  9. Good performance by Hernández Hernández in the crucial relegation game Girona v Elche, he's attending WC in good shape.

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