Uefa has updated the list categorising Uefa officials into five categories, Elite, Premier and Premier Development, and through category 2 to category 4. It is Uefa’s way of differentiating between their many officials and they update it every summer and New Year.
In the top category Elite, four referees has retired or moved off the list. Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway), Aleksei Nikolaev (Russia) and Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) has been promoted onto the Elite category.
Below is the Elite, Premier, and Premier Development category. The official list can be downloaded here.
Update 24/12: Women’s list can be downloaded here.
Update 10/3: Futsal list can be downloaded here.
Elite
Frank De Bleeckere, Belgium
Martin Atkinson, England
Howard Webb, England
Alberto Undiano Mallenco, Spain
Carlos Velasco Carballo, Spain – Promoted from PD
Laurent Duhamel, France
Stephane Lannoy, France
Felix Brych, Germany
Florian Meyer, Germany
Wolfgang Stark, Germany
Viktor Kassai, Hungary
Nicola Rizzoli, Italy
Gianluca Rocchi, Italy
Kevin Blom, Netherlands
Bjorn Kuipers, Netherlands
Svein Oddvar Moen, Norway – Promoted from PD
Olegario Benquerença, Portugal
Pedro Proenca, Portugal
Aleksei Nikolaev, Russia – Promoted from PD
Craig Thomson, Scotland
Massimo Busacca, Switzerland
Damir Skomina, Slovenia
Jonas Eriksson, Sweden
Martin Hansson, SwedenPremier Development
Thomas Einwaller, Austria
Robert Schörgenhofer, Austria – Promoted from cat 2
Serge Gumienny, Belgium
Mark Clattenburg, England – Promoted from cat 2
Tony Chapron, France
Manuel Gräfe, Germany
Alan Kelly, Ireland
Paolo Tagliavento, Italy – Promoted from cat 2
Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao, Portugal
Pavel Cristian Balaj, Romania
William Collum, Scotland
Stefan Johannesson, Sweden
Cüneyt Cakir, TurkeyPremier
Ivan Bebek, Croatia – Re-categorised from PD
Pavel Kralovec, Czech Republic
Michael Dean, England
Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez, Spain
Kristinn Jakobsson, Iceland
Alon Yefet, Israel
Eric Bramhaar, Netherlands
Alexandru Dan Tudor, Romania
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