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Euro 2024 Referee Profiles: Officials, Stats and VAR rules

We’re just days away from Euro 2024 and the list of officials who will take charge of matches at the tournament has been revealed. Find out which referees have been selected, and which roles they will take up.

Referees

Nineteen officials have been selected to referee matches at Euro 2024, 18 coming from European nations and one from Argentina as part of a co-operation agreement between UEFA and CONMEBOL.

Referees have been appointed by UEFA on a match-by-match basis. The selections were chosen from the international list and will not be able to lead matches from their own nations group.

Referees
NameNation2023/24 RecordAve bookings per match
Facundo TelloArgentina22 matches, 102 yellow, 5 red4.64
Michael OliverEngland34 matches, 143 yellow, 7 red4.21
Anthony TaylorEngland43 matches, 177 yellow, 9 red4.12
François LetexierFrance31 matches, 122 yellow, 3 red3.94
Clément TurpinFrance32 matches, 106 yellow, 7 red3.31
Daniel SiebertGermany33 matches, 147 yellow, 6 red4.45
Felix ZwayerGermany33 matches, 159 yellow, 4 red4.82
Marco GuidaItaly28 matches, 108 yellow, 3 red3.86
Daniele OrsatoItaly28 matches, 132 yellow, 8 red4.71
Danny MakkelieNetherlands41 matches, 139 yellow, 5 red3.40
Szymon MarciniakPoland45 matches, 202 yellow, 7 red4.49
Artur Soares DiasPortugal29 matches, 145 yellow, 8 red5.00
István KovácsRomania32 matches, 182 yellow, 7 red5.69
Ivan KružliakSlovakia33 matches, 145 yellow, 5 red4.39
Slavko VinčićSlovenia24 matches, 95 yellow, 2 red3.96
Jesús Gil ManzanoSpain31 matches, 134 yellow, 5 red4.32
Glenn NybergSweden19 matches, 62 yellow, 3 red3.26
Sandro SchärerSwitzerland16 matches, 60 yellow, 4 red3.75
Halil Umut MelerTurkey26 matches, 135 yellow, 12 red5.19

Assistant Referees

Thirty-eight assistant referees have been selected to run the line at Euro 2024. Thirty-six of these come from Europe with two joining from CONMEBOL nation, Argentina.

Assistant Referees
NameNation
Gabriel Chade
Ezequiel Brailovsky
Argentina
Stuart Burt
Dan Cook
Gary Beswick
Adam Nunn
England
Cyril Mugnier
Mehdi Rahmouni
Nicolas Danos
Benjamin Pages
France
Jan Seidel
Rafael Foltyn
Stefan Lupp
Marco Achmüller
Germany
Filippo Meli
Giorgio Peretti
Ciro Carbone
Alessandro Giallatini
Italy
Hessel Steegstra
Jan de Vries
Netherlands
Tomasz Listkiewicz
Adam Kupsik
Poland
Paulo Soares
Pedro Ribeiro
Portugal
Vasile Florin Marinescu
Mihai Ovidiu Artene
Romania
Branislav Hancko
Jan Pozor
Slovakia
Tomaž Klančnik
Andraž Kovačič
Slovenia
Diego Barbero Sevilla
Ángel Nevado Rodriguez
Spain
Mahbod Beigi
Andreas Söderkvist
Sweden
Stéphane de Almeida
Bekim Zogaj
Switzerland
Mustafa Emre Eyisoy
Kerem Ersoy
Turkey

VAR Officials

Twenty VAR Officials have been selected to act as Video Match Officials at Euro 2024. They won’t be able to act as officials for matches from their own nations group.

In addition, 12 ‘Support Match Officials’ have been selected at Euro 2024. They will act as fourth officials or reserve assistant referees and have been selected from UEFA nations. These nations are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Ukraine.

VAR Officials
NameNation
Stuart Attwell
David Coote
England
Jérôme Brisard
Willy Delajod
France
Bastian Dankert
Christian Dingert
Marco Fritz
Germany
Massimiliano Irrati
Paolo Valeri
Italy
Rob Dieperink
Pol van Boekel
Netherlands
Bartosz Frankowski
Tomasz Kwiatkowski
Poland
Tiago MartinsPortugal
Catalin PopaRomania
Nejc KajtazovičSlovenia
 Alejandro Hernández Hernández
Juan Martínez Munuera
Spain
Fedayi SanSwitzerland
Alper UlusoyTurkey

VAR will be in full operation for Euro 2024 and there has been one major change in how Video Assistance will work in Germany. Referees will relay all information about decisions made by VAR to the on-field captain for both nations that are playing, ensuring that players have the full information about how, and why, a decision was reached.

There will also be a decrease in the amount of time it takes to come to offside decisions made by VAR, thanks to cutting edge technology in the match balls as well as the continuation of the semi-automated offside technology used at the 2022 World Cup. UEFA are hoping this leads to an average decision time of around 25 seconds, compared to the average of 70 seconds that offside decisions have taken to be made in the Premier League this season.