2006 FIFA World Cup officials

Match officials for the 2006 FIFA World Cup were nominated by the six confederations to FIFA, who, after a series of tests in Frankfurt/Neu-Isenburg in March 2006, selected 23 referees and a support and development group of a further 5,[1] from a shortlist of 44.[2]

Kyros Vassaras of Greece and Manuel Mejuto of Spain were selected to be on the panel, but the assistants who were to make up their teams were not deemed to have reached the required standards, and so they were replaced by Roberto Rosetti and Luis Medina.[1] Jamaican referee Peter Prendergast was selected for the tournament panel, but suffered a knee injury and was removed from the list without replacement.[3] Massimo De Santis of Italy was also on the panel of 23 referees, but after he was implicated in the Serie A match-fixing allegations, he was withdrawn by the Italian Football Federation and not replaced.[4]

The 21 referees, along with their assistants and the support group, are based in Neu-Isenburg for the duration of the tournament. FIFA announces the referees selected for each fixture three days in advance of the match.[1]

Horacio Elizondo was chosen to officiate the final match, which took place in Berlin on July 9.

Refereeing teams

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Below are the details of the 21 groups of match officials in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[1] For assistants, a flag is only shown if his nationality varies from that of the referee with whom he is grouped.

Most teams (consisting of a referee and two assistants) are drawn from the same nation, and all are made up of officials from the same confederation. In the first round of the tournament, officials other than from UEFA member associations only operate in groups that do not include a representative of their confederation.

Mexico is the only country with 2 referees on the panel.

For the first time at a World Cup, match officials will be equipped with microphones and earpieces so they can communicate better with each other during each game.[5] Furthermore this World Cup sees the introduction of a fifth official who can be called upon to replace an injured assistant referee. The fourth official would replace the referee..

Referee Assistants Matches   Red cards   Yellow cards
  Essam Abd El Fatah D. Dante  
M. Ndoye  
Group F:   Australia vs.   Japan 0 7
  Carlos Amarilla A. Andino
M. Bernal
Group E:   United States vs   Czech Republic
Group G:   Togo vs    Switzerland
Group H:   Tunisia vs   Ukraine
1 18
  Benito Archundia J. Ramirez
H. Vergara  
Group F:   Brazil vs   Croatia
Group G:   France vs   South Korea
Group E:   Czech Republic vs   Italy
Round 2:    Switzerland vs   Ukraine
Semifinal:   Germany vs   Italy
1 14
  Massimo Busacca F. Buragina
M. Arnet
Group H:   Spain vs   Ukraine
Group B:   Sweden vs   England
Round 2:   Argentina vs   Mexico
1 11
  Coffi Codjia C. Ntagungira  
A. Aderodjou
Group A:   Ecuador vs   Costa Rica
Group H:   Spain vs   Saudi Arabia
0 10
  Frank De Bleeckere P. Hermans
W. Vromans
Group C:   Argentina vs   Ivory Coast
Group F:   Croatia vs   Japan
Round 2:   England vs   Ecuador
Quarterfinal:   Italy vs   Ukraine
0 19
  Horacio Elizondo D. Garcia
R. Otero
Group A:   Germany vs   Costa Rica
Group E:   Czech Republic vs   Ghana
Group G:   South Korea vs    Switzerland
Quarterfinal:   England vs   Portugal
Final:   Italy vs   France
3 24
  Valentin Ivanov N. Golubev
E. Volnin
Group G:   France vs    Switzerland
Group A:   Ecuador vs   Germany
Round 2:   Portugal vs   Netherlands
4 26
  Toru Kamikawa Y. Hiroshima
Kim Dae Young  
Group A:   Poland vs   Ecuador
Group B:   England vs   Trinidad and Tobago
Third Place play-off:   Germany vs   Portugal
0 14
  Jorge Larrionda W. Rial
P. Fandino
Group D:   Angola vs   Portugal
Group E:   Italy vs   United States
Group G:   Togo vs   France
Semifinal:   Portugal vs   France
3 15
  Shamsul Maidin P. Permpanich  
E. Ghuloum  
Group B:   Trinidad and Tobago vs   Sweden
Group D:   Mexico vs   Angola
Group A:   Costa Rica vs   Poland
2 20
  Luis Medina Cantalejo V. Giraldez
P. Medina
Group A:   Germany vs   Poland
Group C:   Netherlands vs   Argentina
Round 2:   Italy vs   Australia
Quarterfinal:   Brazil vs   France
2 25
  Markus Merk C. Schraer
J.-H. Salver
Group C:   Serbia and Montenegro vs   Netherlands
Group F:   Brazil vs   Australia
Group E:   Ghana vs   United States
0 16
  Ľuboš Micheľ R. Slysko
M. Balko
Group B:   Sweden vs   Paraguay
Group D:   Portugal vs   Mexico
Round 2:   Brazil vs   Ghana
Quarterfinal:   Germany vs   Argentina
3 32
  Graham Poll P. Sharp
G. Turner
Group G:   South Korea vs   Togo
Group H:   Saudi Arabia vs   Ukraine
Group F:   Croatia vs   Australia
4 20
  Eric Poulat L. Dagorne
V. Texier
Group D:   Portugal vs   Iran
Group F:   Japan vs   Brazil
0 9
  Marco Rodríguez J. Camargo
L. Leal  
Group B:   England vs   Paraguay
Group C:   Ivory Coast vs   Serbia and Montenegro
2 12
  Roberto Rosetti C. Copelli
A. Stagnoli
Group D:   Mexico vs   Iran
Group C:   Argentina vs   Serbia and Montenegro
Group B:   Paraguay vs   Trinidad and Tobago
Round 2:   Spain vs   France
1 15
  Oscar Ruiz F. Tamayo  
J. Navia
Group C:   Netherlands vs   Ivory Coast 0 7
  Mark Shield N. Gibson
B. Wilson
Group H:   Tunisia vs   Saudi Arabia
Group D:   Iran vs   Angola
0 10
  Carlos Simon A. Tavares
E. Corona
Group E:   Italy vs   Ghana
Group H:   Spain vs   Tunisia
Round 2:   Germany vs   Sweden
1 18

Support officials

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Five teams of officials were named to be on standby in the case of injury to any of the officials nominated for a match. None of them were called upon, however, and from the quarter-finals onwards, referees from among the 12 retained for the latter stages of the tournament were given standby appointments to matches.

Referee Assistant
  Khalil Al Ghamdi H. Al Kadri  
F. Rabati  
  Carlos Chandia C. Julio
R. Gonzalez
  Jerome Damon E. Molefe
J. Yeboah  
  Mohamed Guezzaz B. Djezzar  
J. Endeng Zogo  
  Kevin Stott C. Strickland  
G. Barkey  

Final Match Officials

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On Wednesday 28 June, one day after the Second Round matches were completed and two days before the Quarterfinals, the FIFA announced the 12 referees that were retained for the remaining matches.[6] This is the standard process, meant to ensure only the best referees are in charge of the final few games. The twelve are:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "23 referees from 21 countries". Archived from the original on 2006-06-30. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
  2. ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany List of Candidate Referees" (PDF). 2005-10-28. Archived from the original (PDF format) on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
  3. ^ "Referee Peter Prendergast out of 2006 FIFA World Cup". 2006-05-29. Archived from the original on 27 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-05-21.
  4. ^ Notes from a round table event with the FIFA President
  5. ^ "World-Referees happy clampdown on fouls has worked". 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  6. ^ "Ref Poll sent home from World Cup". BBC News. 2006-06-28. Archived from the original on 26 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
  7. ^ "ESPN". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2006-06-28.