by Martin Rødvand on December 22, 2009
UEFA has updated their referee categories for the second half of the 2009-2010 season.
The Elite list is unchanged, with exceptions of the retirement of Konrad Plautz, Iouri Baskakov, Michael Riley and Bertrand Layec.
Four referees are promoted from category 2 to the Premier Development category (Tony Chapron, Carlos Velasco Carballo, Alexei Nikolaev and Cuneyt Cakir.)
The whole list can be found on the Norwegian FA’s site, or here.
by Martin Rødvand on June 11, 2009
The Under-21 Championship is set to start next week in Sweden, and UEFA today announced the men who’s to take charge of the eight teams.
The following referees will be participating in the championship:
Peter Rasmussen, Denmark
Tony Chapron, France
Bjorn Kuipers, Netherlands
Pedro Proença, Portugal
Claudio Circhetta, Switzerland
Cüneyt Cakir, Turkey
You can find the complete list with some useful information here(pdf). Worth mentioning is the Swiss referee Claudio Circhetta who this May was fourth official for Massimo Busacca who refereed the UEFA Champions League final in Rome.
There was no mention of who will be assisting the six referees. RateTheRef forum has got two of the assistants.
Update: Look, UEFA is writing stuff too!