In March 2013, FIFA published a list of 52 prospective referees, each paired, on the basis of nationality, with two assistant referees, from all six football confederations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament.[1] On 14 January 2014, the FIFA Referees Committee appointed 25 referee trios and eight support duos representing 43 countries for the tournament.[2] [3]
| Confederation | Referee | Assistants | Support (referee/assist) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC | Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) | Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan) | Bahadyr Kochkarov (Kyrgyzstan) | Alireza Faghani (Iran) /Hassan Kamranifar (Iran) |
| Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) | Toru Sagara (Japan) | Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan) | ||
| Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain) | Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain) | Ebrahim Saleh (Bahrain) | ||
| Ben Williams (Australia) | Matthew Cream (Australia) | Hakan Anaz (Australia) | ||
| CAF | Noumandiez Doué (Ivory Coast) | Songuifolo Yeo (Ivory Coast) | Jean-Claude Birumushahu (Burundi) | Néant Alioum (Cameroon) / Djibril Camara (Senegal) - / Aden Marwa (Kenya) |
| Bakary Gassama (Gambia) | Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon) | Félicien Kabanda (Rwanda) | ||
| Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria) | Redouane Achik (Morocco) | Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria) | ||
| CONCACAF | Joel Aguilar (El Salvador) | William Torres (El Salvador) | Juan Zumba (El Salvador) | Roberto Moreno (Panama) / Eric Boria (United States) Walter López (Guatemala) / Leonel Leal (Costa Rica) |
| Mark Geiger (United States) | Mark Hurd (United States) | Joe Fletcher (Canada) | ||
| Marco Rodríguez (Mexico) | Marvin Torrentera (Mexico) | Marcos Quintero (Mexico) | ||
| CONMEBOL | Néstor Pitana (Argentina) | Hernán Maidana (Argentina) | Juan Pablo Belatti (Argentina) | Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru) / Rodney Aquino (Paraguay) |
| Sandro Ricci (Brazil) | Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil) | Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil) | ||
| Enrique Osses (Chile) | Carlos Astroza (Chile) | Sergio Román (Chile) | ||
| Wilmar Roldán (Colombia) | Humberto Clavijo (Colombia) | Eduardo Díaz (Colombia) | ||
| Carlos Vera (Ecuador) | Christian Lescano (Ecuador) | Byron Romero (Ecuador) | ||
| OFC | Peter O'Leary (New Zealand) | Jan Hendrik Hintz (New Zealand) | Mark Rule (New Zealand) | Norbert Hauata (Tahiti) / - |
| UEFA | Felix Brych (Germany) | Mark Borsch (Germany) | Stefan Lupp (Germany) | Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway) / Kim Haglund (Norway) |
| Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey) | Bahattin Duran (Turkey) | Tarık Ongun (Turkey) | ||
| Jonas Eriksson (Sweden) | Mathias Klasenius (Sweden) | Daniel Wärnmark (Sweden) | ||
| Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) | Sander van Roekel (Netherlands) | Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands) | ||
| Milorad Mažić (Serbia) | Milovan Ristić (Serbia) | Dalibor Đurđević (Serbia) | ||
| Pedro Proença (Portugal) | Bertino Miranda (Portugal) | Tiago Trigo (Portugal) | ||
| Nicola Rizzoli (Italy) | Renato Faverani (Italy) | Andrea Stefani (Italy) | ||
| Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) | Roberto Alonso Fernández (Spain) | Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez (Spain) | ||
| Howard Webb (England) | Michael Mullarkey (England) | Darren Cann (England) | ||
1.Replaced assistant Referee Ravinesh Kumar, who missed the World Cup due to an injury.
2.Daniel Bennett missed the World Cup due to an injury.[4]
| Name | Match | |
|---|---|---|
| Yuichi Nishimura | ||
| Ravshan Irmatov | ||
| Nawaf Shukralla | ||
| Ben Williams | ||
| Noumandiez Doué | ||
| Bakary Gassama | ||
| Djamel Haimoudi | ||
| Joel Aguilar | ||
| Mark Geiger | ||
| Marco Rodríguez | ||
| Néstor Pitana | ||
| Sandro Ricci | ||
| Enrique Osses | ||
| Wilmar Roldán | ||
| Carlos Vera | ||
| Peter O'Leary | ||
| Felix Brych | ||
| Cüneyt Çakır | ||
| Jonas Eriksson | ||
| Björn Kuipers | ||
| Milorad Mažić | ||
| Pedro Proença | ||
| Nicola Rizzoli | ||
| Carlos Velasco Carballo | ||
| Howard Webb |