Rune Larsson (referee)

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Rune Larsson (born 25 June 1952 in Gotland, Sweden) was a Swedish international football referee. [1]

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Career

He officiated 5 international matches and was member of FIFA in 1985–1992. He attributed two World Cup qualifying matches 1986 (1) and 1990 (1) [2] and others were in friendly matches.

In club football he officiated some UEFA competition matches such as Champions League (3) and UEFA Cup (7). [3] He refereed 202 matches in Allsvenskan, a record at the time. [4] He also officiated 2 Japan football league matches in 1994. [5]

Personal life

Larsson is best known as "the referee who scored". On September 5, 1979 at Råsunda Football Stadium, in the training match between Essinge IK and AIK he scored a header goal and the goal counted. He wrote a book called Domaren som gjorde mål and mentioned a more about his scored goal. [4] [6]

References and notes

  1. "Profile of referee". worldreferee.com. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  2. "Referee's competitive matches". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  3. "Officiated matches in club football". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  4. 1 2 ""Jag kunde älta ett felaktigt domslut i timmar"". Helagotland. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  5. "Officiated J1 League matches in 1994". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  6. "Domaren som gjorde mål". runelarsson.se. Retrieved 2020-10-18.


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