The following is a list of match officials (referees, assistant referees, and video assistant referees) who officiated at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. [1]
FIFA appoints ten officials for each match of the tournament. This includes the on-site team of the referee, two assistant referees, the fourth official and the reserve assistant referee. At a centralised video operation room in Doha, the team of video match officials operate the video assistant referee (VAR) system. [2] This team consists of the lead video assistant referee and three assistants, designated as the assistant VAR (AVAR1), the offside VAR (AVAR2) and the support VAR (AVAR3). Finally, a stand-by assistant VAR official is appointed for each match, used in case of a loss of connection between the stadium and the centralised video operation room. [3] In such a scenario, a backup VAR room located in each stadium will be activated, with the fourth official serving as the video assistant referee (and the reserve assistant referee taking his place), and the stand-by assistant VAR serving as the assistant VAR. [4]
For the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Referees Committee has also appointed three female referees and three female assistant referees. [5]
On 19 May 2022, FIFA announced the list of 36 referees and 69 assistant referees from all six confederations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [6] These were selected from an extended list of over 50 trios. [5]
On 15 December 2022, FIFA announced that Polish referee Szymon Marciniak would adjudicate the final. [7]
On 19 May 2022, FIFA announced 24 video assistant referees (VARs) had been appointed. [5]
Confederation | Video assistant referee |
---|---|
AFC | Abdulla Al-Marri (Qatar) |
Muhammad Taqi (Singapore) | |
Shaun Evans (Australia) | |
CAF | Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco) |
Adil Zourak (Morocco) | |
CONCACAF | Drew Fischer (Canada) |
Fernando Guerrero (Mexico) | |
Armando Villarreal (United States) | |
CONMEBOL | Julio Bascuñán (Chile) |
Nicolás Gallo (Colombia) | |
Leodán González (Uruguay) | |
Juan Soto (Venezuela) | |
Mauro Vigliano (Argentina) | |
UEFA | Jérôme Brisard (France) |
Bastian Dankert (Germany) | |
Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain) | |
Marco Fritz (Germany) | |
Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain) | |
Massimiliano Irrati (Italy) | |
Tomasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) | |
Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain) | |
Benoît Millot (France) | |
Paolo Valeri (Italy) | |
Pol van Boekel (Netherlands) |
In association football, an assistant referee is an official who assists the referee in administering the Laws of the Game during a match. Although assistants are not required under the Laws, at most organised levels of football the match officiating crew consists of the referee and at least two assistant referees. The responsibilities of the various assistant referees are listed in Law 6, "The Other Match Officials". In the current Laws the term "assistant referee" technically refers only to the two officials who generally patrol the touchlines, with the wider range of assistants to the referee given other titles.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup, the world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2010. It was the first World Cup to be held in the Arab world and Muslim world, and the second held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.
Chris James Beath is an Australian former football referee in the A-League.
Danny Desmond Makkelie is a Dutch professional football referee. Besides refereeing he works as a police inspector in Rotterdam and as a referee coach for the Royal Dutch Football Association. He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2011.
Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari also known as Muhammad Taqi, is a Singaporean international football referee. He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012, and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches. He has also won the 2014 S.League Referee of the Year and the AFF Referee of the Year in 2017.
Drew Fischer is a Canadian soccer referee who regularly officiates Major League Soccer games, and was approved for international matches in 2015.
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup will be the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It will involve 24 national teams after expansion in 2019, with Qatar as the defending champions.
The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who assists the referee by reviewing decisions using video footage and providing advice to the referee based on those reviews.
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim is a Qatari football referee who has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2013.
The following is a list of match officials who officiated at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 16th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's soccer championship of the North, Central American, and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF.
The 2019 FIFA Club World Cup was the 16th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by Qatar between 11 and 21 December 2019, taking place at two venues in Al Rayyan.
The 2020 FIFA Club World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club football tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The tournament was hosted by Qatar.
The 2020 FIFA Club World Cup final was the final match of the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup, an international club football tournament hosted by Qatar. It was the 17th final of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised tournament between the club champions from each of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions.
Yoshimi Yamashita is a Japanese football referee. She was an official at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France and also refereed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the match between the United States and Sweden.
Esteban Daniel Ostojich Vega is a Uruguayan football referee. He has been a FIFA international referee since 2016.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification CONCACAF–OFC play-off was a single-leg match between the fourth-placed team of the CONCACAF third round, Costa Rica, and the winners from the OFC, New Zealand. Before their identity was known, the winners of the play-off had already been allocated to Group E at the World Cup.
FIFA officially published the list of match officials who would officiate at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Fernando Guerrero Ramírez is a Mexican professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2014. He refereed matches in the FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The 2023 Under-20 Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the UEFA–CONMEBOL Under-20 Intercontinental Cup, a one-off football match organised by CONMEBOL and UEFA between the winners of the U-20 Copa Libertadores and UEFA Youth League. As host confederation, CONMEBOL was in charge of the main organization of this edition.