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Uefa extends Adidas deal till 2018

by Martin Rødvand on January 10, 2012

Adidas announced in December that they have extended their deal with Uefa till 2018. This includes providing the match ball for Uefa Champions League, Uefa Europa League and Uefa Women’s Champions League.

The match officials in these tournaments will also sport adidas equipment, and the Champions League kit will be using a starball design, according to their press release.

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Uefa reviews its referee list categories

by Martin Rødvand on July 6, 2011

At its recent meeting in Aarhus the Uefa referees committee reviewed its current referee categorisation for male and female referees. In the male category the Premier category was removed and Premier development has been renamed to Elite development. The category 2, 3 and 4 has been renamed to first, second and third.

Referees who were in the previous Premier category has been re-allocated to either Elite development or the First category.

The new referee categorisation is a follows:

Male categories
Elite
Elite development
First
Second
Third

Female categories
Elite
First
Second
Third

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New Champions League kit used in Wembley final

May 29, 2011

You may have noticed that Viktor Kassai and his team, who refereed the Champions League final yesterday, wore a different kit than has been worn previously during the tournament. The kit they used is the kit which will be used during next season’s Champions League. Adidas has made a new kit with three different colour, [...]

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Uefa updates referee categories for spring 2011

December 23, 2010

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 [...]

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Massimo Busacca to ref Inter – Atletico

August 25, 2010

The Swiss match official has been selected by Uefa’s referees committee to take charge of Friday’s Uefa Super Cup final between Internazionale and Atletico Madrid in Monaco. The 41-year-old is accustomed to big games having taken charge of the 2007 Uefa Cup final in Glasgow and the 2009 Uefa Champions League final in Rome. Also [...]

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UEFA bans Eduardo for two matches

September 2, 2009

A very brief statement from UEFA yesterday: The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body today examined the case of the Arsenal FC player Eduardo “for deceiving the referee” during the UEFA Champions League play-off second leg match on 26 August against Celtic FC, and has suspended the player for two UEFA club competition matches. Arsenal are [...]

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“Les Arbitres” debuts on Swiss film festival

August 14, 2009

Les Arbitres, a documentary about football referees filmed during last year’s European Championship premiered last night at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland. The documentary portraits the difficult job of the football referees, and the immense pressure they’re under while refereeing in a major tournament. I love this section from The Guardian’s article: The tension [...]

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Drogba and Bosingwa ban reduced

July 15, 2009

After the spectacle that was the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona, Drogba and Bosingwa was handed reasonable bans by UEFA. They decided to appeal against the punishment and UEFA announced their appeal decision today. UEFA.com writes: “Under the UEFA Appeals Body’s verdicts, Drogba will be suspended for five UEFA club competition matches – [...]

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Five officials experiment to begin 17th of September

July 3, 2009

On the same meeting in Vilnius where the referees were given extended powers in the fight against racism, UEFA announced the start date for the five officials experiment in Europa League. The experiment will begin on Thursday 17 September and last throughout the competition. If the test are proving to be working and the IFAB [...]

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UEFA empowers referees against racism

July 3, 2009

UEFA.com writes: UEFA’s Executive Committee has approved guidelines for match officials to deal with serious racist incidents in stadiums. The decision, made by the Executive Committee at its two-day meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, means in effect that if there are incidents of sufficient magnitude and intensity, the referee will apply Law 5 of the Laws [...]

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UEFA referee list updated (OFFICIAL)

June 29, 2009

I wrote a few days ago about upcoming changes in the UEFA Referee Categories. Now I’ve found an official document on RateTheRef with the changes. Elite and Premier is printed below, complete list is to be found here. Elite Plautz Konrad AUT 16.10.1964 De Bleeckere Frank BEL 01.07.1966 Larsen Claus Bo DEN 28.10.1965 Atkinson Martin [...]

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Chelsea to appeal Drogba and Bosingwa punishment

June 20, 2009

Multiple media sources confirm that Chelsea will be launching an appeal to UEFA after the incidents after last May’s Champions League semi-final. Didier Drogba received a six-match ban (two suspended) while Jose Bosingwa received a four-match ban (one suspended.) Let’s hope UEFA gets it right and slams their door shut for appealing and trying to [...]

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Additional assistants to be used in the Europa League

June 1, 2009

After the IFAB in February approved the use of additional assistants it’s now being reported that the first professional league to benefit from this experiment will be the Europa League (previously the UEFA Cup). Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, confirmed this under a two-day meeting of FIFA’s executive committee in Nassau. This means that [...]

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Busacca to lead in Rome

May 25, 2009

UEFA today announced the referee for the UEFA Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona on Wednesday. The Swiss referee Massimo Busacca will take charge of the match assisted by Matthias Arnet and Francesco Buragina with Claudio Circhetta as fourth official. Manchester United – Barcelona: Massimo Busacca, Matthias Arnet, Francesco Buragina, Claudio Circhetta I’ll [...]

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Webb’s team to ref Barcelona – Bayern?

April 1, 2009

The PGMOL announced last week that the English quartet Howard Webb, Phil Sharp, Darren Cann and Martin Atkinson will take charge of one of the four UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 7th or 8th of April. Seeing as three of the four quarter-finals include an English team we can only assume they will be refereeing the [...]

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UEFA referees second half of 2008-2009 season

February 7, 2009

I’ve previously presented to you the list of the Elite category, Premier category and Premier development category referees, but I’ve missed the rest of the categories (2, 3, 4). I found a document on an Austrian website listing all the referees in the different categories. The list is to long to present in this post, [...]

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