Terje Hauge by Bringsverd under CC-Attribution Generic 2.0
Norwegian top referee Terje Hauge has announced his retirement from top football at the end of this year. The soon to be 45-year-old referee is forced off the international list due to age-restrictions set by Fifa and will end his domestic career simultaneously. Fellow Norwegian referee Tom Henning Øvrebø announced his retirement from international football earlier this year.
The highly acclaimed Norwegian referee has been a presence in the top division since 1990, and he made his international debut in 1993. In 2000 he was selected as a fourth official in the European Championship. He was selected for the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004 as a referee, and he was for a long time the number one ranked Norwegian referee internationally.
His international career reached the top level in May 2006 when he was selected to referee the Champions League final between Arsenal and Barcelona in Paris. The highly important match ended in an anticlimax, having to change one of his assistant referees in the build up to the final. In the match, Hauge was forced to send off Jens Lehmann, the first sending off in a Champions League final.
In the years building up to the match in Paris, Hauge did numerous important matches in Europe. He has twice refereed a Champions League semi-final, once taken charge of an Uefa cup semi-final, and in 2004 he was selected to referee the Super Cup match between Porto and Valencia.
Domestically Hauge was in 2004 and 2007 presented the Kniksen-award for best referee. In 1996 and 2003, he was selected to referee the Norwegian cup final.
With almost 300 domestic matches, and over 250 international matches, Terje Hauge is the most experienced referee Norway has ever seen.
Update 7/11: Terje Hauge will finish his domestic refereeing career with the match between Viking and Kongsvinger in the Norwegian Premier Division. This will be his 301st league game.
Terje Hauge timeline
- 1981 – Started refereeing
- 1990 – Debut in Norwegian top division (Vålerenga – Kongsvinger)
- 1993 – Made the international list (Fifa)
- 1994 – U-18 European Championship
- 1996 – Norwegian cup final between Tromsø and Bodø/Glimt
- 1997 – UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup
- 1997 – U-17 World Cup (final referee)
- 2000 – Euro 2000 as fourth official
- 2001 – U-20 World Cup
- 2002 – World Cup 2002 (did one match)
- 2003 – CL semi-final between Real Madrid and Juventus
- 2003 – Norwegian cup final between Bodø/Glimt and Rosenborg
- 2004 – Uefa Cup semi-final between Valencia and Villareal
- 2004 – Euro 2004 (did two matches)
- 2004 – Super Cup final
- 2005 – CL semi-final between PSV and AC Milan
- 2005 – U-20 World Cup (final referee)
- 2006 – Champions League final between Arsenal and Barcelona
- 2010 – EL semi-final between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid
- 2010 – November 7th – Final league game between Viking and Kongsvinger.
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what a joke this guy.If you have seen the champions league match between Spurs-FC Twente ,you know that this man never should be allowed to use his whistle ever again.A disgrace for footballreferees.
What a disgrace to professional football. At the Spurs – Twente match he could not resist crowd roaring and gave the home team a huge benefit by ignoring an elbow from Huddlestone and awarding 3 penalties to the home team of which 2 were disputable.
Wenger and Arsenal fans would disagree with the highly acclaimed bit. Scandinavian referees are a horrow show.
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