FIFA World Cup referees explained

FIFA World Cup referees are FIFA international referees who officiate at the FIFA World Cup matches.

World Cup Final match officials

Year	Referee	Assistant Referees	Reserve Referees and Assistant Referees	Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs
1930 ^[1]	John Langenus	Ulises Saucedo Henri Christophe	Reserve Referees since 1994 Reserve Assistant Referees since 2006	Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs since 2018
1934 ^[2]	Ivan Eklind	Louis Baert Mihály Iváncsics
1938 ^[3]	Georges Capdeville	Hans Wüthrich Augustin Krist
1954 ^[4]	William Ling	Vincenzo Orlandini Sandy Griffiths
1958 ^[5]	Maurice Guigue	Albert Dusch Juan Gardeazábal Garay
1962 ^[6]	Nikolay Latyshev	Leo Horn Bobby Davidson
1966 ^[7]	Gottfried Dienst	Tofiq Bahramov Karol Galba
1970 ^[8]	Rudi Glöckner	Rudolf Scheurer Ángel Coerezza
1974 ^[9]	Jack Taylor	Alfonso González Archundía Ramón Barreto Ruiz
1978 ^[10]	Sergio Gonella	Ramón Barreto Ruiz Erich Linemayr
1982 ^[11]	Arnaldo Cézar Coelho	Abraham Klein Vojtech Christov
1986 ^[12]	Romualdo Arppi Filho	Erik Fredriksson Berny Ulloa Morera
1990 ^[13]	Edgardo Codesal Méndez	Armando Pérez Hoyos Michał Listkiewicz
1994 ^[14]	Sándor Puhl	Venancio Zárate Vázquez Mohammad Fanaei	Francisco Lamolina
1998 ^[15]	Said Belqola	Mark Warren Achmat Salie	Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid
2002 ^[16]	Pierluigi Collina	Leif Lindberg Philip Sharp	Hugh Dallas
2006 ^[17]	Horacio Elizondo	Darío García Rodolfo Otero	Luis Medina Cantalejo Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco
2010 ^[18]	Howard Webb	Darren Cann Michael Mullarkey	Yuichi Nishimura Toru Sagara
2014 ^[19]	Nicola Rizzoli	Renato Faverani Andrea Stefani	Carlos Vera Rodríguez Christian Lescano Guerrero
2018 ^[20]	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti	Björn Kuipers Erwin Zeinstra	Massimiliano Irrati Mauro Vigliano Carlos Astroza Cárdenas Danny Makkelie
2022 ^[21]	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Sokolnicki Tomasz Listkiewicz	Ismail Elfath Kathryn Nesbitt	Tomasz Kwiatkowski Juan Soto Arévalo Kyle Atkins Fernando Guerrero Ramírez Corey Parker Bastian Dankert

By country

As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final, 33 countries have been represented in the officials body of the FIFA World Cup Final.

Country	Total	Referees	Assistant Referees	Reserve Referees	Reserve Assistant Referees	VARs	Assistant VARs
	9	2	5	1	0	0	1
	7	3	4	0	0	0	0
	7	3	3	0	0	1	0
	5	1	3	0	0	1	0
	4	1	3	0	0	0	0
	4	0	1	1	1	0	1
	3	0	1	1	1	0	0
	3	1	2	0	0	0	0
	3	1	2	0	0	0	0
	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
	2	0	0	1	1	0	0
	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	2	0	0	1	1	0	0
	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	2	0	1	1	0	0	0
	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals:	75	20	40	7	4	1	3

By confederation

Confederation	Total	Referees	Assistant Referees	Reserve Referees	Reserve Assistant Referees	VARs	Assistant VARs
UEFA	47	14	26	3	2	1	1
CONMEBOL	19	4	10	2	1	0	2
AFC	4	0	1	2	1	0	0
CONCACAF	3	1	2	0	0	0	0
CAF	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
OFC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals:	75	20	40	7	4	1	3

Number of matches

11 matches:

• Ravshan Irmatov (2010, 2014, 2018)

9 matches:

• Néstor Pitana (2014, 2018)

8 matches:

• Joël Quiniou (1986, 1990, 1994)
• Benito Archundia (2006, 2010)
• Jorge Larrionda (2006, 2010)

7 matches:

• John Langenus (1930, 1934, 1938)
• Sandy Griffiths (1950, 1954, 1958)
• Juan Gardeazábal Garay (1958, 1962, 1966)
• Ali Bujsaim (1994, 1998, 2002)
• Carlos Eugênio Simon (2002, 2006, 2010)
• Frank De Bleeckere (2006, 2010)
• Marco Antonio Rodríguez (2006, 2010, 2014)
• Björn Kuipers (2014, 2018)
• César Arturo Ramos (2018, 2022)

6 matches:

• Ivan Eklind (1934, 1938, 1950)
• Arthur Edward Ellis (1950, 1954, 1958)
• Nikolay Latyshev (1958, 1962)
• Jamal Al Sharif (1986, 1990, 1994)
• Arturo Brizio Carter (1994, 1998)
• Gamal Al-Ghandour (1998, 2002)
• Óscar Ruiz (2002, 2006, 2010)
• Roberto Rosetti (2006, 2010)
• Howard Webb (2010, 2014)
• Mark Geiger (2014, 2018)
• Sandro Ricci (2014, 2018)
• Cüneyt Çakır (2014, 2018)
• Alireza Faghani (2018, 2022)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Match Report Final 1930. https://web.archive.org/web/20090130060807/http://www.fifa.com:80/worldcup/archive/edition=1/results/matches/match=1087/report.html. 2009-01-30.
2. Web site: Match Report Final 1934. https://web.archive.org/web/20090323233453/http://www.fifa.com:80/worldcup/archive/edition=3/results/matches/match=1134/report.html. 2009-03-23.
3. Web site: Match Report Final 1938. https://web.archive.org/web/20090121132948/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D5/results/matches/match%3D1174/report.html. 2009-01-21.
4. Web site: Match Report Final 1954. https://web.archive.org/web/20120720061301/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D9/results/matches/match%3D1278/report.html. 2012-07-20.
5. Web site: Match Report Final 1958. https://web.archive.org/web/20090217191643/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D15/results/matches/match%3D1343/report.html. 2009-02-17.
6. Web site: Match Report Final 1962. https://web.archive.org/web/20090217151249/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D21/results/matches/match%3D1463/report.html. 2009-02-17.
7. Web site: Match Report Final 1966. https://web.archive.org/web/20090325061102/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D26/results/matches/match%3D1633/report.html. 2009-03-25.
8. Web site: Match Report Final 1970. https://web.archive.org/web/20090125100710/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D32/results/matches/match%3D1765/report.html. 2009-01-25.
9. Web site: Match Report Final 1974. https://web.archive.org/web/20090126054549/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D39/results/matches/match%3D2063/report.html. 2009-01-26.
10. Web site: Match Report Final 1978. https://web.archive.org/web/20090212153626/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D50/results/matches/match%3D2198/report.html. 2009-02-12.
11. Web site: Match Report Final 1982. https://web.archive.org/web/20090130055822/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D59/results/matches/match%3D923/report.html. 2009-01-30.
12. Web site: Match Report Final 1986. https://web.archive.org/web/20090129112333/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D68/results/matches/match%3D393/report.html. 2009-01-29.
13. Web site: Match Report Final 1990. https://web.archive.org/web/20090202133348/http://fifa.com:80/worldcup/archive/edition=76/results/matches/match=27/report.html. 2009-02-02.
14. Web site: Match Report Final 1994. https://web.archive.org/web/20090202050557/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D84/results/matches/match%3D3104/report.html. 2009-02-02.
15. Web site: Match Report Final 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721191819/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D1013/results/matches/match%3D8788/report.html. 2011-07-21.
16. Web site: Match Report Final 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20090130065850/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D4395/results/matches/match%3D43950064/report.html. 2009-01-30.
17. Web site: Match Report Final 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207085003/http://www.fifa.com:80/worldcup/archive/germany2006/results/matches/match=97410064/report.html. 2009-02-07.
18. Web site: Match Report Final 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20150426074142/http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/27/28/16/64_0711_ned-esp_fulltime.pdf. dead. April 26, 2015.
19. Web site: Match Report Final 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714234254/http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/40/50/17/eng_64_0713_ger-arg_fulltime.pdf. dead. July 14, 2014.
20. Web site: Tactical Line-up.
21. Web site: FIFA Media.