2012-2013 UAFA CUP

(2nd qualifying round – 2nd leg in Manama) 

Al-Hadd (Bahrain)  vs  Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia)  0-2 

Referee : Yousef Al-Marzouq (Kuwait)
Asst referee: Ali Behzad (Kuwait)

Asst referee: Mohamed Al Enzi (Kuwait)

4th official: Ali Taleb (Kuwait)

2012 FIFA Club World Cup

Japan - 06/16 December 2012

Selected Referees :

Nawaf Ghayyath  SHUKRALLA  (Bahrain)

Djamel  HAIMOUDI  (Algeria)

Marco Antonio RODRIGUEZ MORENO  (Mexico)

Carlos Alfredo  VERA RODRIGUEZ  (Ecuador)

Peter  O’LEARY  (New Zealand)

Cüneyt  ÇAKIR  (Turkey)

Alireza  FAGHANI  (Iran)  -  reserve

Selected Assistant Referees :

Yaser Khalil  ABDULLA TULEFAT  (Bahrain)

Ebrahim Mubarak  SALEH  (Bahrain)

Redouane ACHIK  (Morocco)

Abdelhak  ETCHIALI  (Algeria)

Marvin TORRENTERA  (Mexico) 

Marcos QUINTERO (Mexico) 

Christian Daniel  LESCANO GUERRERO  (Ecuador)

Byron Norberto  ROMERO IBARRA  (Ecuador)

Jan Hendrik  HINTZ  (New Zealand)

Ravinesh  KUMAR  (Fiji)

Bahattin  DURAN  (Turkey)

Tarik  ONGUN  (Turkey)

Hassan  KAMRANIFAR  (Iran)  -  reserve

Reza  SOKHANDAN  (Iran)  -  reserve

AFC Elite Referees

They attended a workshop in Kuala Lumpur to prepare for potential Brazil 2014 duty

Khalil Ibrahim AL-GHAMDI (Saudi Arabia)

Nawaf Abdulla GHAYYATH SHUKRALLA (Bahrain)
Ali Ahmad AL-BADWAWI (UAE)
Alireza FAGHANI (Iran)
Ravshan IRMATOV (Uzbekistan)
Valentin KOVALENKO (Uzbekistan)
Abdulrahman Mohamed ABDOU HUSSAIN (Qatar)
Yuichi NISHIMURA (Japan)
Ben WILLIAMS (Australia)

Mahinda Rajapaska Trophy (Sri Lanka)

U23 Friendly tournament
Mahinda Rajapaska Trophy in Nawalapitiya (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka U23 vs Maldives U23   0-3


Referee: Srikrishna Ramaswamy (India)
Assistant Referee 1: Biplab Podder (India)

Assistant Referee 2: Franky Fernandes (India)
4th Official: Robesh Gamini (Sri Lanka)

2013 EAFF East Asian Championship

Preliminary Competition Round 2 - Mong Kok Stadium, Hong Kong
DPR Korea vs Guam 5-0


Referee : Mongkolchai Pechsri (Thailand)

Assistant referee : Sumate Saiwaew (Thailand)
Assistant referee : Anuwat Feemuechang (Thailand)
4th Official : Wang Zhe (China)

Mexico : 2012 Torneo Apertura Final

First Leg, 29 November 2012, in Tijuana

Club Tijiuana  vs  Deportivo Toluca    2 - 1

Referee: Roberto García Orozco (Mexico)

Second Leg, 2 December 2012, in Toluca

Deportivo Toluca   vs  Club Tijiuana    0 - 2

Referee: Francisco Chacón Gutiérrez (Mexico)

2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) – Qualifiers

(1st round / 1st leg in Conakry)

Guinea vs Sierra Leone  0 - 0 

Referee : Boukari Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)
Asst referee: Seydou Tiama (Burkina Faso)

Asst referee: Adolphe Adama Paré (Burkina Faso)
4th official: Innocent Saba  (Burkina Faso)

Victor Hugo Rivera (Peru)

Peruvian FIFA referee Victor Hugo Rivera celebrated his last football match before retirement during the 2012 final (1st leg) of the Peru Football Championship (Torneo Descentralizado)

This match was played at Estadio Garcilazo de la Vega in Cuzco, on December 2nd 2012, between Real Garcilaso vs Sporting Cristal (0-1)

2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) – Qualifiers

1st Round, 1st leg - in Maputo

Mozambique vs Seychelles 4-0 

Referee : Victor Gomes (South Africa)
Asst referee: Sandile Dilikane (South Africa)

Asst referee: Lindikhaya Bolo (South Africa)
4th official: Lwandile Mfiki (South Africa)

Panama : 2012 Torneo Apertura - Final

02 December 2012

in el Estadio Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez (Panama City)

CD Arabe Unidos  vs  Chepo  FC  4-1

Referee: John Francis Pitty  (Panama)

Assistant referee : Daniel Williamson
Assistant referee : Gabriel Victoria

4^th official : Roberto Moreno

2013 EAFF East Asian Championship

Preliminary Competition Round 2 - Mong Kok Stadium, Hong Kong

DPR Korea vs Taiwan 6-1


Referee : Wang Zhe (China)
Assistant referee : Dennis Chan Shui-hung (Hong-Kong)
Assistant referee : A Lamusi (China)
4th Official : Jumpei Iida (Japan)

2013 CAF U-17 CHAMPIONSHIP

CAF U-17 CHAMPIONSHIP (Qualifiers – 3rd round – 2nd leg)

Ivory Coast U17 vs Senegal U17 = 2-1   
in Abidjan 

Referee : Kokou Fagla (Togo)
Asst referee : Limna Kabassima (Togo)
Asst referee : Kokou Avisse (Togo)
4th official : Kossi Sedjro (Togo)

Ghana U17 vs South Africa U17 = 2-1
 in Sekondi

Referee : Namouano Souleymane (Niger)
Asst referee : Yahaya Mahamadou (Niger)
Asst referee : Ibrahim Bakoye (Niger)
4th official : Abdoul Aziz Hama (Niger)

Tunisia U17 vs Burkina Faso U17 = 3-0
in Sousse

Referee : Mounir Mabrouk (Morocco)

Asst referee : Mouhib Filali (Morocco)

Asst referee : Mimoun Bekkali (Morocco)

4th official : Mounir Errahmani (Morocco) 

USA : 2012 MLS Cup Final

Canadian Silviu Petrescu has been named MLS Referee of the Year.

He was in charge of the 2012 MLS Cup Final on Dec.1st in California, between Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamos (3-1)

Uzbekistan : 2012 Cup Final

Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium in Tashkent

FC Bunyodkor vs  Nasaf Qarshi     3-0

Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
Assistant referee : Mamur Saidkasimov
Assistant referee : Jakhongir Saidov
4th Official : Shukhrat Pulatov 

Moroccan Referees :

Abdellah EL ACHIRI 
Khalid ENNOUNI 
Hicham TIAZI

Rachid BOULAHOUJEB

2012 AFC Referee of the Year : Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

Top Japanese official Yuichi Nishimura has ended Ravshan Irmatov's dominance of the AFC Referee of the Year award after claiming the individual accolade ahead of the four-time winner from Uzbekistan and Iran's Alireza Mohammad Faghani.

Nishimura's quality shone through when he was entrusted with the potentially explosive second-leg of the 2012 AFC Champions League semi-final between arch-Jeddah rivals Al Ahli and Al Ittihad in what was his third appointment in this year's edition of Asia's premier club competition.

In another highlight of 2012 Nishimura was also involved in the Olympic Games, with the 40-year-old officiating the group stage fixtures between Brazil and Belarus and hosts Great Britain and Uruguay, while the two-time J.League Referee of the Year also took charge of two matches in the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup as well as a Round 3 qualifier for the London Games.

Source: www.the-afc.com

2012-2013 UAFA CUP

(2nd qualifying round – 1st leg  in Riyadh) 

Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) vs Al-Hadd (Bahrain)  3-0

Referee : Khamis Al-Marri  (Qatar)

Asst referee: ? (Qatar)

Asst referee: Ramzan Al-Naemi (Qatar)
4th official: Banjar Al-Dosari (Qatar)

2012 CAF Confederation Cup Final (2nd leg)

CAF 2012 Confederation Cup Final (2nd Leg)

25 November 2012 in Dolisie

AC Leopards (Congo) vs Djoliba AC (Mali)  2-1

Referee: Néant Alioum (Cameroon)
Assistant Referee : Menkouande Evarist (Cameroon)
Assistant Referee : Moussa Yanoussa (Cameroon)
Fourth Official: Christopher Ndé (Cameroon)

Norway : 2012 Cup Final

2012 Norwegian Football Cup Final

November 25^th, 2012 in Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Tromsø IL vs IL Hødd  1-1 (penalties:2-4)

Referee: Kjetil Sælen 
Assistant referee : Sven Erik Midthjell

Assistant referee : Reidar Gundersen
4th Official : Kristoffer Helgerud

2012 AFF Suzuki cup - Final round competition

Group A in Bangkok (Thailand)

24 to 30 November 2012 

Referees:

Ryuji Sato (Japan)
Ma Ning (China)
André El Haddad (Lebanon)
Yaqoob Said Abdullah Abdul Baki (Oman)

Assistant Referees:
Haruhiro Otsuka (Japan)
Su Jige (China)
Hadi Kassar (Lebanon)
Abdullah Mubarak Mohamed Al-Shammakhi (Oman)
Palitha Hemathunga (Sri Lanka)

Group B in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 

25 November to 01 December 2012 

Referees:

Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)
Ng Kai Lam (Hong Kong)
Fan Qi (China)
Ali Hasan Ebrahim Abdulnabi (Bahrain)

Assistant Referees:
Youngha Kim (Korea)
Saeid Alinezhadian (Iran)

2012-2013 UEFA Europe League - Group Stage

2012-2013  UEFA Europe League (Group Stage (E) - Day 5)

22 Nov. 2012 - Arena National, Bucharest

Steaua Bucharest (Romania) vs VfB Stuttgart (Ger)   1-5

Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)

Assistant Referee 1: Dimitrios Saraidaris (Greece)

Assistant Referee 2: Damianos Efthimiadis (Greece)

Fourth Official: Michael Karsiotis (Romania)

Additional Assistant Referee 1: Stavros Tritsonis (Greece)

Additional Assistant Referee 2: Andreas Pappas (Greece)

2012-2013 UEFA Europe League - Group Stage

2012-2013 UEFA Europe League  (Group Stage (K) - Day 5)

22 Nov. 2012 - Kharkov  (Ukraine)

FC Metalist Kharkov (Ukr)  vs  Bayer Leverkusen (Ger)    2-0

Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

Assistant Referee 1: Zoltán Székely (Romania)

Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (Romania)

Fourth Official: Aurel Onita (Romania)

Additional Assistant Referee 1: Marius Avram (Romania)

Additional Assistant Referee 2: István Kovács (Romania)

Kenya : 2012 Cup Final

2012 Kenya President’s Cup Final

November 20, 2012 in Nyayo National Stadium (Nairobi)

Gor Mahia vs Sofapaka 0-0 (penalties : 3-0)

Referee: Sylvester Kirwa (Kenya)
Assistant referee : Peter Kiereini
Assistant referee : Peter Sabatia
4th Official : Isaac Ochieng

2012 CAF Confederation Cup (1st Leg)

CAF 2012 Confederation Cup (1st Leg)

18 November 2012 in Bamako

Djoliba AC (Mali) vs AC Leopards (Congo)  2-2

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)
Assistant Referee : Molefe Enock (South Africa)
Assistant Referee : Zakhele Siwela (South Africa)
Fourth Official: Victor Hlungwani (South Africa)

2012 CAF Champions League Final (2nd leg)

Second leg, November 17 in Tunis
Esperance Tunis (Tunisia) vs Al Ahly (Egypt)   1-2


Referee : Bouchaib El Ahrach (Morocco) 
Asst referee : Redouane Achik (Morocco) 
Asst referee : Rouani Bouazz (Morocco) 
4th official : Redouane Jiyed (Morocco)

2012 AFC U19 Championship Final

AFC has selected Emirati referee Mohamed Al-Zarouni to officiate the final of the 2012 U19 Championship, between Iraq and Korea, on November 17th.

He will be assisted by Mohamed Nehlawi (Syria) and Tang Yew Mun (Singapore)
Singaporian referee Malik Abdul Bashir will be 4th official

Friendly : Gabon vs Portugal

Stade Omnisport Président Omar Bongo (Libreville / Gabon)

Gabon  vs  Portugal    2-2

Referee :  Joseph Lamptey (Ghana)

Assistant referee :  David Laryea (Ghana)

Assistant referee :  Ibrahim Badiu (Ghana)

Quite an eventfull friendly game between Gabon and Portugal, and a very busy evening for Ghana referee Joseph Lamptey with 3 penalties and above all..the most "surprising" call of the year..

Have a look...

Kazakhstan : 2012 Cup Final

2012 Kazakhstan Cup Final

November 11, 2012 in Astana Arena

FC Astana vs Irtysh Pavlodar 2-0 

Referee: Kairat Slambekov (Kazakhstan)

2012 AFC Champions League Final

AFC appoints Australian referees for 2012 ACL final

The final of the 2012 AFC Champions League will be played on the 10 November 2012 at the Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium, Ulsan Korea. The two finalists for 2012 are Ulsan Hyundai from Korea and Al Ahli from Saudia Arabia.

Referee : Williams Benjamin (Australia)

Assistant Referee 1 : Brennan Luke (Australia)
Assistant Referee 2 : Cetrangolo Paul Adam (Australia)
Fourth Official : Delovski Strebre (Australia)

Friendly : Bahrain vs Jordan

Friendly Match

8 November 2012 in Bahrain National Stadium (Riffa)

Bahrain  vs  Jordan     3-0

Referee : Ali Shaban  (Kuwait)

Asst referee: Aziz Al-Wadi (Bahrain)

Asst referee: Nawaf  Moussa (Bahrain)

4th official: Jameel Juma Abdulhusain (Bahrain)

2012 AFC PROJECT REFEREES (Selection Course)

AFC PROJECT REFEREE PROGRAMME

BATCH 2012 – SELECTION COURSE

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – Novembre 2012

18 Pre-selected referees :

ABDULRAHMAN ALI H A AL-MARRI – QATAR 
ALEXANDER GEORGE KING - AUSTRALIA
BAO MENGXIAO - CHINA P.R.
FONG KWOK HONG - HONG KONG
HUANG XIANG - CHINA P.R.
JIN JINGYUAN - CHINA P.R.
MD NAZMUL HUDA - BANGLADESH
OMAR MOHAMED AHMED HASSAN AL-ALI - UAE 
TAKESHI ASADA - JAPAN
VENKATESH RAMACHANDRAN - INDIA
ZAKRI NASSER HASHIL AL-HINAAI - OMAN

DANIEL JOHN ELDER – AUSTRALIA

WONG WAI LUN - HONG KONG

TONG DAN - CHINA P.R.

SAEID BAHONAR - I.R. IRAN

MONIKA JANA – INDIA

MOHAMMED SAAD M ALMASSWARI - SAUDI ARABIA

KHALID ALI MOHAMED ALI MAHMOUD ALMULLA – UAE

2013 CAF U17 Championship – Qualifiers

CAF U17 CHAMPIONSHIP – Morocco 2013


3rd round qualifiers 

• 1st leg : 17 November  2012
• 2nd leg: 01 December  2012

Referees appointements 

2012 CAF Champions League Final (1st leg)

First leg, November 4 in Cairo

Al Ahly (Egypt) vs  Esperance Tunis (Tunisia)   1-1

Referee : Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

Asst referee : Omar Bouabdallah (Algeria)
Asst referee : Mohamed Bechirene (Algeria)
4th official : Mokhtar Amalou (Algeria)

Ireland : 2012 FAI Cup Final

2012 FAI Cup Final

November 4, 2012 in Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Derry City vs St Patrick's Athletic  3-2 (aet)

Referee : Neil Doyle (Ireland) 

2012 AFC Cup Final

AFC has selected Valentin Kovalenko from Uzbekistan to referee the 2012 AFC Cup Final between Arbil (Irak) and Kuwait SC (Kuwait).
The final will be played on November 3rd at Francouse Al-Hareeri Stadium in Arbil City (Irak)