Swiss referee Stephan Studer has been selected for the U19 final between France and Spain on Friday. Studer has previously refereed two matches in the group stage of the tournament.

The 34-year-old was promoted to the international list in 2009, and he was promoted to category 3 on Uefa’s referee categories previously this year. On August 5th he will take charge of the second leg between Dnipro and Spartak Zlatibor in the third qualification round to the Europa League.

30/7/10
France – Spain
Referee: Stephan Studer, Switzerland
Assistant referees: Thorsten Schiffner, Germany; Pelikan Ondrej, Czech Republic
Fourth official: Bezborodov Vladislav, Russia
Uefa referee observer: Jozef Marko, Slovakia

Christina Pedersen har blitt tildelt semifinalen i U-20-VM mellom Colombia og Nigeria. U-20-mesterskapet spilles i Tyskland, hvor også VM for kvinner skal spilles neste år.

Pedersen har tidligere i turneringen dømt gruppespillkampene mellom Ghana og Sør-Korea, og Nigeria og Mexico.

29/7/10
Colombia – Nigeria
Referee: Christina Pedersen, Norway
Assistant referee: Hege Steinlund, Norway; Lada Rojc, Croatia
Fourth official: Bibiana Steinhaus, Germany

Silvia Reyes fra Peru tar hånd om den andre semifinalen, mellom Tyskland og Sør-Korea.

Tre norske dommerteam har blitt tildelt kamper i Europa Leagues tredje kvalifiseringsrunde. Tom Harald Hagen reiser til Polen for kampen Wisla Krakow og Qarabag, Espen Berntsen dømmer Jagiellonia Bislystok mot Aris mens Tommy Skjerven har ansvaret for returkampen mellom Zestafoni og Karpaty.

Hagen og Skjerven var tidligere denne måneden i aksjon i Champions Leagues andre kvalifiseringsrunde.

29/07/10
Wisla Krakow – Qarabag
Referee: Tom Harald Hagen, Norway
Assistant referees: Svein Inge Wiken, Svein Erik Midthjell
Fourth official: Kristoffer Helgerud

Jagiellonia Bislystok – Aris
Referee: Espen Berntsen, Norway
Assistant referees: Frank Andås, Magnus Lundberg
Fourth official: Anders Johansen

5/8/10
Zestafoni – Karpaty
Referee: Tommy Skjerven, Norway
Assistant referees: Frank Andås, Kim Thomas Haglund
Fourth official: Ken Henry Johnsen

De to norske lagene som deltar i denne kvalifiseringrunden, Molde og Aalesund, dømmes henholdsvis av nederlenderen Bas Nijhuis og Albert Toussaint fra Luxemburg i første kamp mens Mauro Bergonzi fra Italia og Richard Trutz fra Slovakia har ansvaret for returkampene.

Svein Oddvar Moen har blitt tildelt kampen mellom Young Boys og Fenerbahçe i tredje kvalifiseringsrunde til Champions League. Kampen spills i Sveits’ hovedstad Bern onsdag 28. juli.

Moen er rangert i Uefas Premier development-kategori, hvor dommerne hovedsaklig dømmer oppgjør i Europa League samt kvalifisering til Champions League.

28/7/10
Young Boys – Fenerbahçe
Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen, Norway
Assistant referees: Geir Åge Holen, Dag-Roger Nebben
Fourth official: Svein-Erik Edvartsen

Noen av de andre dommerne som er i aksjon i denne kvalifiseringsrunden er: Mike Dean (ENG), Paolo Tagliavento (ITA), Serge Gumienny (BEL), Thomas Einwaller (AUT) og Ivan Bebek (CRO).

Tyske Thorsten Kinhöfer dømmer det først oppgjøret mellom AIK og Rosenborg mens Spanjolen Eduardo Iturralde González tar hånd om returoppgjøret.

At a meeting of the International Football Association Board on Wednesday, approval was given for a number of competitions to use additional assistant referees. In May, Ifab approved a two-year trial where federations could trial the experiment in competitions of their choice given they followed the guidelines provided by Ifab.

Uefa announced soon after that they would request a trial for both of their club tournaments in addition to the Euro 2012 qualifiers and final competition.

Fifa also confirmed that the issue of goal-line technology will be on the agenda of Ifab’s next meeting in October 2010.

Competitions where the AAR experiment has been approved:

Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
AFC President’s Cup 2010 (24-26 September)

Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF)
Campeonato Baiano de Futebol Feminino 2010 (Sept-Dec 2010)
Campeonato Carioca de 2011

Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación (FMF)
Torneo Clausura 2011
Torneo Apertura 2011
Torneo Clausura 2012

Fédération Française de Football (FFF)
Coupe de la Ligue 2010/2011 (League Cup)

Union des associations européennes de football (UEFA)
UEFA Champions League 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
UEFA Europa League 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
UEFA Super Cup 2010 and 2011.

The experiment is currently not being applied to national team competitions.

Espen Eskås har blitt tildelt finaleoppdraget i morgendagens avsluttende kamp på juniorturneringen på Hamar. Med seg som assistenter får han Morten Jensen og Jim Andre Dyb mens Arild Tengesdal er fjerdedommer.

Semifinalene ble dømt av Jon Ophuus og Sigurd Kringstad.

Finale JET
18/07/10
Odd Grenland – Stabæk
Referee: Espen Eskås
Assistant referees: Morten Jensen, Jim Andre Dyb
Fourth official: Arild Tengesdal

Oslo-dommeren Eskås dømmer til vanlig i 2.divisjon, og vil med en god prestasjon i finalen være et hett tips for prøvekamp i Adeccoligaen.

Christina Pedersen deltar for tiden i U20-VM for kvinner som arrangeres i Tyskland. Sammen med 12 andre dommere er målet VM i 2011, som også arrangeres i Tyskland.

Pedersen er ikke den eneste norske dommeren i U20-VM, hun har fått med seg Tippeliga-assistent Hege Steinlund. Til nå har Pedersen hatt to fjerdedommeroppdrag i kampene Brasil – Nord-Korea og Sverige – New Zealand. Nå indikerer Fifas nettsted at Christina Pedersen vil ta hånd om kampen mellom Ghana og Sør-Korea i gruppe D på lørdag.

29-åringen dømmer til vanlig i Toppserien for kvinner samt 2.divisjon menn.

17/07/10
Ghana – Korea Republic
Referee: Christina Pedersen, Norway
Assistant referees: Hege Steinlund, Norway; Lada Rojc, Croatia
Fourth official: Alexandra Ihringova, England

Tom Harald Hagen og Tommy Skjerven har begge fått tildelt kamper i andre kvalifiseringsrunde til Champions League. Skjerven reiser til Beograd mens Hagen besøker Ungarn. Begge dommerne er rangert i category 2 på Uefas dommerrangering.

Norges ferskeste Fifa-dommer Ken Henry Johnsen var i aksjon forrige uke med oppgjøret mellom EB/Streymur og Kalmar på Færøyene i kvalifisering til Europa League.

14/07/2010
Partizan – Pyunik
Referee: Tommy Skjerven, Norway
Assistant referees: Kim Thomas Haglund, Frank Andås
Fourth official: Kristoffer Helgerud

21/07/2010
Debrecen – Levadia
Referee: Tom Harald Hagen, Norway
Assistant referees: Dag Roger Nebben, Svein Inge Wiken
Fourth official: Brage Sandmoen

Ahead of each new season Uefa releases a list containing different referee categories and referees. This list will be the list from which Uefa chooses referees for Champions League, Europa League and various youth competitions. The referees on the Elite category will mainly be in charge of Champions League games, the Premier/Premier Development/Cat 2 will handle Europa League and Cat 3 and 4 will take charge of qualifiers to Europa League and youth games.

On the Elite category we have few changes, with only two referees promoted from the Premier development category. Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez, Tom Henning Øvrebø and Roberto Rosetti have all retired from refereeing. Gianluca Rocchi (ITA) and Kevin Blom (NED) are the new Elite referees.

Elite category
Frank De Bleeckere (01/07/1966), Belgium
Claus Bo Larsen (28/10/1965), Denmark
Martin Atkinson (31/03/1971), England
Howard Melton Webb (14/07/1971), England
Laurent Duhamel (10/10/1968), France
Stéphane Laurent Lannoy (18/09/1969), France
Wolfgang Stark (20/11/1969), Germany
Felix Brych Felix (03/08/1975), Germany
Florian Meyer (21/11/1968), Germany
Viktor Kassai (10/09/1975), Hungary
Gianluca Rocchi (25/08/1973), Italy Promoted from PD
Roberto Rosetti (18/09/1967), Italy
Nicola Rizzoli (05/10/1971), Italy
Alain Hamer (10/12/1965), Luxembourg
Pieter Vink (13/03/1967), Netherlands
Kevin Blom (21/02/1974), Netherlands Promoted from PD
Bjorn Kuipers (28/03/1973), Netherlands
Terje Hauge (05/10/1965), Norway
Tom Henning Øvrebø (26/06/1966), Norway
Olegaria Benquerença (18/10/1969), Portugal
Pedro Proença Oliveira Alves Garcia (03/11/1970), Portugal
Craig Alexander Thomson (20/06/1972), Scotland
Damir Skomina Damir (05/08/1976), Slovenia
Alberto Undiano Mallenco (08/10/1973), Spain
Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez (16/04/1965), Spain
Martin Hansson (06/04/1971), Sweden
Jonas Eriksson (28/03/1974), Sweden
Massimo Busacca (06/02/1969), Switzerland

Premier category
Pavel Kralovec (16/08/1977), Czech Republic Promoted from PD
Michael Dean (02/07/1968), England
Kristinn Jakobsson (11/06/1969), Iceland
Alon Yefet (01/09/1972), Israel Promoted from PD
Eric Braamhaar (13/10/1966), Netherlands
Alexandru Dan Tudor (13/09/1971), Romania Promoted from PD
Darko Ceferin (11/07/1968), Slovenia
Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez (20/02/1967), Spain

Premier development category
Thomas Einwaller (25-04-1977), Austria
Serge Gumienny (14-04-1972), Belgium
Ivan Bebek (30-05-1977), Croatia
Tony Chapron (23-04-1972), France
Manuel Gräfe (21-09-1973), Germany Promoted from cat 2
Alan Kelly (09-04-1975), Ireland
Svein Oddvar Moen (22-01-1979), Norway
Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao (18-05-1974), Portugal
Pavel Cristian Balaj (17-08-1971), Romania
Alexei Nikolaev (01-08-1971), Russia
William Collum (18-01-1979), Scotland
Carlos Velasco Carballo (16-03-1971), Spain
Stefan Johannesson (22-11-1971), Sweden
Cüneyt Cakir (23-11-1976), Turkey

You can download the complete document from here (pdf). Note that the list includes Roberto Rosetti and Michael Kempter, referees who will not work international games this season.

Other list:

Women – Elite – Premiere – Cat 2 – Cat 3
Futsal (Men) – Cat 1 – Cat 2 – Cat 3

Women and futsal lists via Dutch referee blog.

Forty-two-year-old Roberto Rosetti has decided to end his career as a referee after eight years on the international list. The accomplished Italian refereed the final between Spain and Germany in Euro 2008, and has participated in the last two World Cups.

Having refereed numerous matches in Champions League, and handled 13 seasons of Serie A football, Rosetti will now take on an administrative role in the association of Italian referees.

In South Africa, Roberto Rosetti was in charge of two matches, Ghana – Australia and Argentina – Mexico. Rosetti and his assistant came under critisism after allowing an offside goal to stand, and Fifa president Sepp Blatter apologised to the Mexican team after this error. The Italian refereeing team was not retained after this match.

The Italian refereed his first international match in 2002, and would have been age-eligible until 2012. Nicola Rizzoli will now be the number one ranked Italian referee in Europe.