Antonio Damato (born 15 August 1972 [1] ) is an ex-Italian football referee.
A lawyer by profession, Damato became a FIFA referee in 2010. [2] He has served as a referee in the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League and during the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the Group G match between Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina. [3] He ceased to be a FIFA referee in 2016 and retired from refereeing in Italian domestic football in 2018.
The Armenia national football team represents Armenia in international football, and is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia, the governing body for football in Armenia.
Tommy Skjerven is a Norwegian football referee from Kaupanger. He debuted as a referee in 1984, and served as a FIFA referee from 2001 until 2012. He is no longer included on the FIFA list as of 2013, because he reached the international retirement age of 45 in 2012. Skjerven represents Kaupanger IL. Skjerven was the main referee in the cup final between Odd Grenland and Vålerenga in 2002. His day job is working for noreg.no in Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality.
The Greece women's national football team represents Greece in international women's football. The only international tournament the team took place in were the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Automatically qualified as hosts, Greece lost all three matches in their group without scoring a goal.
Frederikus Johannes (Eric) Braamhaar is a Dutch football referee. Braamhaar is known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 2003 to 2011. He officiated at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship and 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, as well as qualifying matches for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.
Gilles Veissière is a football referee from France, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan. He also led two matches at the 2000 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, and has refereed numerous UEFA Champions League matches. He was selected for the FIFA Europe vs. Rest of the World match to accompany the World Cup draw in Marseille in 1997.
Hervé Piccirillo is a French football referee. He has been a referee in the French Football Federation (FFF) since 1990 and became a FIFA referee in 2005, although he officiated one international friendly match between Morocco and Senegal in February 2003. He is no longer included on the FIFA list as of 2013.
Craig Alexander Thomson is a Scottish former football referee, who was a match official between 1988 and 2019. Thomson originates from Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Peter O'Leary is a New Zealand former Association football referee, previously of Wellington but now is residing and working in Hamilton. He operated in the Australian A-League and the New Zealand Football Championship, and his other occupation is as a teacher and deputy principal at Hamilton's Melville High School.
Domenico Messina is an Italian football referee. He has refereed in the Serie A since 1995; his first match was played between Genoa and Padova on 15 January. Since then, he has refereed almost 200 matches in the Serie A.
Alexandru Dan Tudor is a retired Romanian football referee. He refereed his first match in the Romanian First Division on 15 May 1999, when he officiated a match between Universitatea Craiova and Universitatea Cluj. He was a FIFA-listed referee from 2001 to 2016, and refereed his first UEFA Champions League qualifying match on 31 July 2002. He took charge of a UEFA Cup first round match between Celta de Vigo and Odense Boldklub two months later, but it was not until 4 November 2008 that he refereed his first Champions League group stage match, when he officiated a match between Barcelona and Basel. He refereed his last official match in the Romanian First Division on 14 December 2018, when he officiated a thrilling game between Concordia Chiajna and FC Politehnica Iași, 3-6. Nicknamed Brad Pitt thanks to his looks, Tudor holds the record for the most games officiated in Liga 1, with over 380 matches under his badge.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group G was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Greece, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia and Liechtenstein.
Daniele Orsato is an Italian football referee. Over his career, which spans three decades, Orsato has refereed a UEFA Champions League final and has received accolades from the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, but he has also been the subject of much controversy. A mistake he made in a 2018 match between Inter Milan and Juventus handed the Serie A title to Juventus over rivals S.S.C. Napoli. Orsato himself acknowledged the mistake years later. Ballon d'Or winner and Croatia national football team captain Luka Modrić has defined Orsato, who refereed the semi-final between Croatia and Argentina at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, as "one of the worst" referees, describing his performance in that game as "a disaster."
Robert Schörgenhofer is an Austrian football referee. He refereed at the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
Miroslav Zelinka is a Czech football referee. He refereed at 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
Group F of the 2014 FIFA World Cup consisted of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran and Nigeria. Play began on 15 June and ended on 25 June 2014. The top two teams, Argentina and Nigeria, advanced to the round of 16.
Slavko Vinčić is a Slovenian football referee. He has been an international-listed referee for FIFA since 2010. Vinčić went to UEFA Euro 2012 as additional assistant in the team of Damir Skomina.
The history of football in Bosnia and Herzegovina dates back to the early 1900s during the Austro-Hungarian rule.
Irfan Peljto is a Bosnian professional football referee who officiates primarily in the Bosnian Premier League. He has been a FIFA referee since 2015, and is ranked as a UEFA elite category referee.
Nikola Dabanović is a Montenegrin football referee who officiates in the Montenegrin First League. He has been a FIFA referee since 2009, and is ranked as a UEFA first category referee.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar. Group D consisted of five teams: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, France, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.
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