List of FIFA World Cup referees
International football referees
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The FIFA World Cup is a quadrennial international association football tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). World Cup matches are officiated by referees from the FIFA International Referees List.
World Cup Final match officials
| Year | Referee | Assistant referees | Fourth official | Reserve/Fifth official | Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and Assistant VARs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 [1] |  John Langenus (BEL) |  Ulises Saucedo (BOL) Henri Christophe (BEL) | — | — | — |
| 1934 [2] |  Ivan Eklind (SWE) | Louis Baert (BEL) Mihály Iváncsics (HUN) | |||
| 1938 [3] |  Georges Capdeville (FRA) |  Hans Wüthrich (SUI) Augustin Krist (BEL) | |||
| 1954 [4] |  William Ling (ENG) |  Vincenzo Orlandini (ITA) Sandy Griffiths (WAL) | |||
| 1958 [5] | Maurice Guigue (FRA) |  Albert Dusch (FRG) Juan Gardeazábal Garay (ESP) | |||
| 1962 [6] |  Nikolay Latyshev (URS) |  Leo Horn (NED) Bobby Davidson (SCO) | |||
| 1966 [7] | Gottfried Dienst (SUI) | Tofiq Bahramov (URS) Karol Galba (TCH) | |||
| 1970 [8] |  Rudi Glöckner (GDR) | Rudolf Scheurer (SUI) Ángel Coerezza (ARG) | |||
| 1974 [9] | Jack Taylor (ENG) |  Alfonso González Archundía (MEX) Ramón Barreto Ruiz (URU) | |||
| 1978 [10] | Sergio Gonella (ITA) | Ramón Barreto Ruiz (URU) Erich Linemayr (AUT) | |||
| 1982 [11] |  Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (BRA) |  Abraham Klein (ISR) Vojtech Christov (TCH) | |||
| 1986 [12] | Romualdo Arppi Filho (BRA) | Erik Fredriksson (SWE) Berny Ulloa Morera (CRC) | |||
| 1990 [13] | Edgardo Codesal Méndez (MEX) |  Armando Pérez Hoyos (COL) Michał Listkiewicz (POL) | |||
| 1994 [14] |  Sándor Puhl (HUN) |  Venancio Zárate Vázquez (PAR) Mohammad Fanaei (IRN) | Francisco Lamolina (ARG) | ||
| 1998 [15] |  Said Belqola (MAR) | Mark Warren (ENG) Achmat Salie (RSA) |  Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid (KSA) | ||
| 2002 [16] | Pierluigi Collina (ITA) | Leif Lindberg (SWE) Philip Sharp (ENG) | Hugh Dallas (SCO) | ||
| 2006 [17] | Horacio Elizondo (ARG) | Darío García (ARG) Rodolfo Otero (ARG) |  Luis Medina Cantalejo (ESP) | Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco (ESP) | |
| 2010 [18] | Howard Webb (ENG) | Darren Cann (ENG) Michael Mullarkey (ENG) |  Yuichi Nishimura (JPN) | Toru Sagara (JPN) | |
| 2014 [19] | Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) | Renato Faverani (ITA) Andrea Stefani (ITA) |  Carlos Vera Rodríguez (ECU) | Christian Lescano Guerrero (ECU) | |
| 2018 [20] | Néstor Pitana (ARG) | Hernán Maidana (ARG) Juan Pablo Belatti (ARG) | Björn Kuipers (NED) | Erwin Zeinstra (NED) | Massimiliano Irrati (ITA) Mauro Vigliano (ARG) Carlos Astroza Cárdenas (CHI) Danny Makkelie (NED) |
| 2022 [21] | Szymon Marciniak (POL) | Paweł Sokolnicki (POL) Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL) |  Ismail Elfath (USA) | Kathryn Nesbitt (USA) | Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL) Juan Soto Arévalo (VEN) Kyle Atkins (USA) Fernando Guerrero Ramírez (MEX) Corey Parker (USA) Bastian Dankert (GER) |
By country
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, 36 countries have been represented in the officials body of the FIFA World Cup final.
| Country/NFA | Total | Referees | Assistant referees | Fourth officials | Reserves | VARs | Assistant VARs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina |
9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| England |
7 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Italy |
7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Poland |
5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Belgium |
4 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Netherlands |
4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| United States |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Mexico |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Spain |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sweden |
3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Switzerland |
3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Brazil |
2 | 2 | |||||
| Czechoslovakia |
2 | 2 | |||||
| Ecuador |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
 France |
2 | 2 | |||||
| Hungary |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Japan |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Scotland |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Soviet Union |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Uruguay |
2 | 2 | |||||
| Austria |
1 | 1 | |||||
 Bolivia |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Chile |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Colombia |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Costa Rica |
1 | 1 | |||||
| East Germany |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Germany |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Iran |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Israel |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Morocco |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Paraguay |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Saudi Arabia |
1 | 1 | |||||
| South Africa |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Venezuela |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Wales |
1 | 1 | |||||
| West Germany |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 86 | 21 | 42 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
By confederation
Number of matches
11 matches:
Ravshan Irmatov (2010, 2014, 2018)
9 matches:
Néstor Pitana (2014, 2018)
César Ramos Palazuelos (2018, 2022, 2026)
Alireza Faghani (2018, 2022, 2026)
Clément Turpin (2018, 2022, 2026)
8 matches:
7 matches:
John Langenus (1930, 1934, 1938)
Sandy Griffiths (1950, 1954, 1958)
Juan Gardeazábal Garay (1958, 1962, 1966)
Ali Bujsaim (1994, 1998, 2002)
Carlos Eugênio Simon (2002, 2006, 2010)- Frank De Bleeckere (2006, 2010)
- Marco Rodríguez Moreno (2006, 2010, 2014)
Björn Kuipers (2014, 2018)
Szymon Marciniak (2018, 2022, 2026)- Wilton Sampaio (2022, 2026)
Mustapha Ghorbal (2022, 2026)
6 matches:
Ivan Eklind (1934, 1938, 1950)
Arthur Edward Ellis (1950, 1954, 1958)
Nikolay Latyshev (1958, 1962)
Jamal Al Sharif (1986, 1990, 1994)- Arturo Brizio Carter (1994, 1998)
Gamal Al-Ghandour (1998, 2002)
Óscar Ruiz Acosta (2002, 2006, 2010)
Roberto Rosetti (2006, 2010)- Howard Webb (2010, 2014)
Mark Geiger (2014, 2018)- Sandro Meira Ricci (2014, 2018)
Cüneyt Çakır (2014, 2018)
