2026/27 UEFA Summer Course for Top Referees

Elite and Category 1 will meet in Geneva before the start of new season.

All Elite and Category 1 referees, unless Russian officials, have been invited.
To be reported the recent retirements of: Anthony Taylor ENG, Benoît Bastien FRA and Slavko Vinčić SVN among the Elite referees.

Omar Abdulkadir Artan will attend the course as well, maybe the start of a UEFA career for him. 

Main topics will be key messages by committee for the new season and a check of the fitness level of all referees. 

Geneva (SUI), 31 August - 2 September 2026

Elite: 

BEL Erik Lambrechts

BIH Irfan Peljto

ENG Christopher Kavanagh

ENG Michael Oliver

ESP Jesús Gil Manzano

ESP Alejandro José Hernández Hernández

ESP José María Sánchez Martínez

FRA François Letexier

FRA Clément Turpin

GER Sven Jablonski

GER Daniel Siebert

GER Tobias Stieler

GER Felix Zwayer

ISR Orel Grinfeeld

ITA Marco Guida

ITA Maurizio Mariani

ITA Davide Massa

LTU Donatas Rumsas

NED Serdar Gozubuyuk

NED Danny Makkelie

NOR Espen Eskås

POL Szymon Marciniak

POR Joao Pedro Silva Pinheiro

ROU Istvan Kovacs

SCO Nicolas Walsh

SRB Srdjan Jovanovic

SUI Sandro Schärer

SVK Ivan Kružliak

SVN Rade Obrenovic

SWE Glenn Nyberg

TUR Halil Umut Meler

Category 1:

ALB Enea Jorgji

ALB Juxhin Xhaja

AUT Sebastian Gishamer

AUT Julian Weinberger

AZE Aliyar Aghayev

AZE Elchin Masiyev

BEL Jasper Vergoote

BEL Lawrence Visser

BUL Radoslav Gidzhenov

BUL Georgi Kabakov

CRO Patrik Kolarić

CRO Igor Pajac

CZE Ondrej Berka

DEN Jakob Kehlet

DEN Morten Krogh

ENG John Brooks

ESP Javier Alberola Rojas

ESP Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea

ESP Juan Martínez Munuera

EST Kristo Tohver

FIN Mohammed Al-Emara

FRA Jérôme Brisard

FRA Willy Delajod

FRA Jérémie Pignard

GEO Goga Kikacheishvili

GEO Giorgi Kruashvili

GER Harm Osmers

GER Daniel Schlager

GER Sascha Stegemann

GRE Vasileios Fotias

GRE Anastasios Papapetrou

HUN Balázs Berke

HUN Tamás Bognár

IRL Rob Hennessy

ISR Yigal Frid

ITA Andrea Colombo

ITA Simone Sozza

LTU Manfredas Lukjanukas

LVA Edgars Malcevs

LVA Andris Treimanis

MLT Ishmael Barbara

MNE Nikola Dabanovic

NED Allard Lindhout

NED Sander van der Eijk

NOR Rohit Saggi

POL Pawel Raczkowski

POL Damian Sylwestrzak

POR Antonio Emanuel Carvalho Nobre

POR Luis Godinho

ROU Marian Alexandru Barbu

ROU Horatiu Mircea Fesnic

ROU Radu Marian Petrescu

SRB Milos Milanovic

SRB Nenad Minakovic

SUI Urs Schnyder

SVK Michal Ocenáš

SVN Martin Matoša

SWE Mohammed Al-Hakim

UKR Mykola Balakin

UKR Oleksii Derevinskyi

CAF Guest:

SOM Omar Abdulkadir Artan