UEFA has introduced the 18 referees who will likely be taking cost of matches at Euro 2024 this summer season.
These 18 referees would be the males within the center for all 51 fixtures at Euro 2024, tasked with officiating the video games to a excessive normal and conserving every squad below management throughout the event. They are going to be aided by two assistant referees, a fourth official, a reserve assistant referee on the stadium, and a group of three video match officers throughout every match.
“EURO 2024 is the head of European nationwide group soccer with the perfect groups competing and that’s why we’ve got chosen the perfect referees to officiate these matches,” Roberto Rosetti, UEFA managing director of refereeing, said.Â
“All chosen referees have carried out persistently to the very best requirements in UEFA’s prime competitions, and in addition of their home competitions. They’ve ready exceptionally properly to be on this place and we’ve got full confidence in them to indicate their high quality on the closing event.”
In complete, there will likely be 57 referees and assistant referees, 20 video match officers, and 12 assist match officers, who act as both fourth officers or reserve assistant referee throughout video games. However under, FourFourTwo particulars all 18 referees taking cost of matches this summer season.Â
Euro 2024 referees
Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
Artur Soares Dias grew to become Portugal’s youngest FIFA referee ever when he made the grade in 2010 and the 44-year-old has loads of expertise in membership and worldwide European soccer. He refereed two video games in Euro 2020, together with England’s group-stage win over the Czech Republic at Wembley.Â
In 2017, he and his household had been the topic of dying threats earlier than he was attributable to take cost of a Primeira Liga conflict between Paco de Ferreira and Porto. The Euro 2024 closing falls on his forty fifth birthday.Â
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Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain)Â
The 40-year-old official was within the highlight earlier this season for his half in probably the most controversial selections in La Liga this time period. Manzano was the person within the center for Actual Madrid’s 2-2 draw at Valencia in March, when he blew for full-time seconds earlier than Jude Bellingham headed the ball into the aim. Bellingham, believing he had scored a last-gasp successful aim, protested vehemently, with Manzano sending him off. He additionally had a 2018 run-in with Lionel Messi, who refused to shake his hand following a Barcelona match.Â
Manzano has been FIFA-listed since 2014 and this will likely be his second senior worldwide event after the 2021 Copa America.
Marco Guida (Italy)Â
FIFA-listed since 2014, the 42-year-old Italian will likely be officiating at a senior worldwide event for the primary time this summer season.
He arrives in Germany with a wealth of Serie A and European expertise, however received on Manchester United followers’ radar when he left the Previous Trafford followers bemused by blowing for half-time after 44 minutes and 41 seconds of the Purple Devils Champions League conflict in opposition to FC Copenhagen earlier this season. Â
Istvan Kovacs (Romania)Â
The 39-year-old Romanian official has been on UEFA’s elite listing since 2019 and took cost of the 2022 Europa Convention League closing between Roma and Feyenoord. He oversaw a Netherlands win over North Macedonia at Euro 2020 and went to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the place he was a fourth official in eight matches.
He drew the ire of Barcelona boss Xavi in April for his efficiency of their dramatic Champions League quarter-final collapse in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain, with Ronald Araujo’s controversial pink card being adopted by Xavi himself getting his marching orders from the touchline.Â
Ivan Kruzliak (Slovakia)Â
One other referee on the centre of a much-debated determination this season, Kruzliak oversaw Aston Villa’s Europa League win over Lille, through which Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was not ordered from the pitch after choosing up a second yellow card within the penalty shootout.Â
The Slovakian was appropriate in his interpretation of the foundations as playing cards don’t carry ahead right into a shootout and the 40-year-old heads to Germany for his first senior worldwide event. Â
François Letexier (France)Â
One of many youngest referees on the event, the 35-year-old will make his senior event debut at Euro 2024 and has additionally been known as as much as the Paris Olympics later this summer season. Took cost of the UEFA Tremendous Cup between Manchester Metropolis and Sevilla earlier this season and combines his refereeing with part-time work as a court docket bailiff.
In October 2022 he acquired dying threats following a fiery conflict between Good and Nantes.
Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
An element-time police inspector, Makkiele is an skilled official who took cost of England’s semi-final win over Denmark at Euro 2020, awarding the Three Lions an extra-time penalty. He additionally oversaw two video games on the 2022 World Cup and was the VAR for the 2018 World Cup closing.
The 41-year-old was branded as ‘conceited’ by Emre Can final season, after Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League last-16 exit to Chelsea following a retaken penalty incident.
Szymon Marciniak (Poland)Â
Certainly one of Europe’s most skilled referees, Marciniak’s first event expertise got here at Euro 2016, with the Pole being handed a sequence of huge video games since, together with the 2022 World Cup closing and final season’s Champions League closing.Â
Thought-about to be top-of-the-line referees of his era, the 43-year-old will little question be hoping so as to add the European Championship closing to his assortment of huge matches. Â
Halil Umut Meler (Türkiye)Â
The 37-year-old Turk was the topic of worldwide headlines when he was punched within the face by Ankaragucu’s president, Faruk Koca, following a Tremendous Lig match in December. Meler was then kicked after falling to the bottom and hospitalised for every week.Â
Undeterred, he returned a month later and can now head to a serious worldwide event for the primary time, two years after being added to UEFA’s elite listing. Â
Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
The 35-year-old Swede is one other referee making his main event bow this summer season. Nyberg was the topic of a minor storm earlier this 12 months, when he declined to present Bayern Munich a penalty of their Champions League conflict in opposition to Bayern Munich after Gabriel dealt with the ball, seemingly unaware that the ball was in play after a David Raya goal-kick.Â
Whereas the Bayern group fumed, Gunners boss Mikel Aterta praised the referee for utilizing ‘widespread sense’. Â
Michael Oliver (England)
Certainly one of two English referees heading to Germany this summer season, Oliver is a well-known face to Premier League followers who’ve seen him in motion since 2010, when he grew to become the youngest referee within the competitors’s historical past. He refereed at Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup after becoming a member of UEFA’s elite group of officers in 2018. Â
Daniele Orsato (Italy)Â
Some of the skilled referees appointed for the event in Germany, the 48-year-old Orsato oversaw the 2020 Champions League closing and was the person in control of the 2022 World Cup opener between Qatar and Ecuador.Â
He additionally helmed that event’s semi-final between Argentina and Croatia, with Luka Modric dubbing his efficiency ‘a catastrophe’.
Sandro Schärer (Switzerland) Â
The youngest refereee on UEFA’s listing for Euro 2024, Schärer has been a daily referee within the Champions League in latest seasons and not too long ago drew the reward of former Swiss ref Urs Meier, who mentioned that the 35-year-old is able to ‘ship his masterpiece’ this summer season.Â
Daniel Siebert (Germany)Â
The 39-year-old German has been a global referee since 2015, overseeing three matches throughout Euro 2020 after which two within the 2022 World Cup’s group stage.Â
An element-time instructor, Siebert’s notable performances embrace a 2019 German Supercup closing between bitter rivals Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, plus a firey April 2022 Champions League tie between Atletico Madrid and Manchester Metropolis. Â
Anthony Taylor (England)Â
Certainly one of England’s most skilled officers, Wythenshawe-born Taylor has been a Premier League referee since 2010. Taylor was praised for his dealing with of the Euro 2020 group stage match between Finland and Denmark through which Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch, together with his calm and fast response to the incident highlighted.Â
Taylor additionally oversaw two video games on the 2022 World Cup.
Clement Turpin (France)Â
A member of UEFA’s elite group since 2012, Turpin brings loads of expertise to Germany. At membership degree, he has refereed the 2021 Europa League closing between Villarreal and Manchester United, plus the 2022 Champions League closing when Liverpool took on Actual Madrid.Â
This will likely be his fifth main worldwide event, with the 41-year-old having gone to the previous two Euros and World Cups.Â
Slavko Vincic (Slovenia)Â
The 44-year-old Slovenian has been a global listed ref since 2011 and his first style of a serious event got here in 2012 when he went to the European Championship as an assistant.
He oversaw the Europa League closing between Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers in 2022 and heads to Germany hoping to referee in his third senior event. Â
Felix Zwayer (Germany)Â
A 42-year-old actual property dealer, Zwayer is getting ready for his first style of a senior event. No stranger to controversy, Zwayer was criticised by Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland following a Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich conflict in 2021, with the previous referencing a 2005 match-fixing scandal that Zwayer acquired a six-month refereeing ban for over his half in it. Zwayer oversaw the 2023 UEFA Nations League Last between Croatia and Spain. Â