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
