A few of the referee appointments for the World Cup qualifiers have surfaced on the referee forum RateTheRef. I have emailed FIFA enquiring about the publication of referee appointments, but received no answer yet. The referee appointments in this post are not officially confirmed, with exception of the appointment of Terje Hauge in Wales – Germany. This appointment is confirmed by the Norwegian FA.
28/03/09:
Albania vs. Hungary – Björn Kuipers, Patrick Gerritsen, Wilco Lobbert, Bas Nijhuis (NED)Lithuania vs. France – Eric Braamhaar, Hans ten Hoove, Berry Simons, Pol van Boekel (NED)
01/04/09:
Wales vs. Germany – Terje Hauge, Steinar Holvik, Dag Roger Nebben, Tommy Skjerven (NOR)Turkey vs. Spain – Herbert Fandel, Volker Wezel, Sönke Glindemann, Thorsten Kinhöfer (GER)
England vs. Ukraine – Claus Bo Larsen, Anders Nørrestrand, Torben Jensen, Anders Hermansen (DEN)
Italy vs. Republic of Ireland – Wolfgang Stark, Jan-Hendrik Salver, Mike Pickel, Manuel Gräfe (GER)
Netherlands vs. F.Y.R. Macedonia – Peter Rasmussen, Henrik Sønderby, Martin Wulff, Lars Christoffersen (DEN)
Updated: Added two more assignments.
