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 | |||||||
| Name | Nation | 2023/24 Record | Ave bookings per match | ||||
| Facundo Tello | Argentina | 22 matches, 102 yellow, 5 red | 4.64 | ||||
| Michael Oliver | England | 34 matches, 143 yellow, 7 red | 4.21 | ||||
| Anthony Taylor | England | 43 matches, 177 yellow, 9 red | 4.12 | ||||
| François Letexier | France | 31 matches, 122 yellow, 3 red | 3.94 | ||||
| Clément Turpin | France | 32 matches, 106 yellow, 7 red | 3.31 | ||||
| Daniel Siebert | Germany | 33 matches, 147 yellow, 6 red | 4.45 | ||||
| Felix Zwayer | Germany | 33 matches, 159 yellow, 4 red | 4.82 | ||||
| Marco Guida | Italy | 28 matches, 108 yellow, 3 red | 3.86 | ||||
| Daniele Orsato | Italy | 28 matches, 132 yellow, 8 red | 4.71 | ||||
| Danny Makkelie | Netherlands | 41 matches, 139 yellow, 5 red | 3.40 | ||||
| Szymon Marciniak | Poland | 45 matches, 202 yellow, 7 red | 4.49 | ||||
| Artur Soares Dias | Portugal | 29 matches, 145 yellow, 8 red | 5.00 | ||||
| István Kovács | Romania | 32 matches, 182 yellow, 7 red | 5.69 | ||||
| Ivan Kružliak | Slovakia | 33 matches, 145 yellow, 5 red | 4.39 | ||||
| Slavko Vinčić | Slovenia | 24 matches, 95 yellow, 2 red | 3.96 | ||||
| Jesús Gil Manzano | Spain | 31 matches, 134 yellow, 5 red | 4.32 | ||||
| Glenn Nyberg | Sweden | 19 matches, 62 yellow, 3 red | 3.26 | ||||
| Sandro Schärer | Switzerland | 16 matches, 60 yellow, 4 red | 3.75 | ||||
| Halil Umut Meler | Turkey | 26 matches, 135 yellow, 12 red | 5.19 | ||||
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 | |||||||
| Name | Nation | ||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Name | Nation | ||||||
| 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 Martins | Portugal | ||||||
| Catalin Popa | Romania | ||||||
| Nejc Kajtazovič | Slovenia | ||||||
| Alejandro Hernández Hernández Juan Martínez Munuera |
Spain | ||||||
| Fedayi San | Switzerland | ||||||
| Alper Ulusoy | Turkey | ||||||
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.
