UEFA 27th Advanced Course for Top Referees Portugal 2019 - List of participants (UPDATED)

Knockout stages of European  competitions are coming, and UEFA referees must be ready. A very important innovation in UEFA competitions will be the use of VAR in CL KO games. This year the courses for both top UEFA referees and new FIFA referees will take place in Portugal, from 27/01 to 31/01. We are pleased to provide you the list of participants in the Advanced Course for Top Referees. 

Lisbon, Portugal
27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31/01

MEN
Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan, Category 1)

Alexey Kulbakov (Belarus, Category 1)

Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria, Category 1)

Pavel Královec (Czech Republic, Elite)
Petr Ardeleanu (Czech Republic, Category 2)

Michael Oliver (England, Elite)

Anthony Taylor (England, Elite)
Craig Pawson (England, Category 1)
Stuart Attwell (England, Category 2)
Paul Tierney (England, Category 2)
Mattias Gestranius (Finland, Category 1)
Clément Turpin (France, Elite)
Benoît Bastien (France, Elite)

Ruddy Buquet (France, Category 1)
Benoît Millot (France, Category 2)
Nicolas Rainville (France, Category 2)*

Deniz Aytekin (Germany, Elite)

Felix Brych (Germany, Elite)

Felix Zwayer (Germany, Elite)

Tobias Stieler (Germany, Category 1)

Daniel Siebert (Germany, Category 1)
Bastian Dankert (Germany, Category 2)*
Marco Fritz (Germany, Category 2)*

Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece, Elite)

Viktor Kassai (Hungary, Elite)

Orel Grinfeeld (Israel, Category 1)

Daniele Orsato (Italy, Elite)

Gianluca Rocchi (Italy, Elite)

Davide Massa (Italy, Category 1)
Marco Guda (Italy, Category 2)*
Massimiliano Irrati (Italy, Category 2)*

Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania, Category 1)

Andris Treimanis (Latvia, Category 1)

Björn Kuipers (Netherlands, Elite)

Danny Makkelie (Netherlands, Elite)

Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands, Category 1)

Pol van Boekel (Netherlands, Category 2)*
Jochem Kamphuis (Netherlands, NO FIFA)*

Szymon Marciniak (Poland, Elite)

Paweł Raczkowski (Poland, Category 1)
Paweł Gil (Poland, Category 1)*

Artur Dias (Portugal, Elite)
Tiago Martins (Portugal, Category 2)*

Ovidiu Alin Haţegan (Romania, Elite)

István Kovács (Romania, Category 1)

Sergey Karasev (Russia, Elite)

William Collum (Scotland, Elite)

Robert Madden (Scotland, Category 1)

Milorad Mažić (Serbia, Elite)

Srđan Jovanović (Serbia, Category 1)

Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia, Category 1)

Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain, Elite)

Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain, Elite)

Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain, Elite)
Carlos Del Cerro Grande (Spain, Elite)
José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain, Category 2)
Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain, Category 2)*
Alejandro José Hernández Hernández (Spain, Category 2)*

Damir Skomina (Slovenia, Elite)

Matej Jug (Slovenia, Category 1)

Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia, Category 1)

Andreas Ekberg (Sweden, Category 1)

Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey, Elite)
Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey, Category 1)*
Barış Şimşek (Turkey, NO FIFA)*

WOMEN
Ivana Martinčić (Croatia, Elite)

Jana Adamkova (Czech Republic, Elite)

Lina Lehtovaara (Finland, Elite)

Stéphanie Frappart (France, Elite)

Florence Guillemin (France, Elite)

Riem Hussein (Germany, Elite)

Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany, Elite)

Katalin Anna Kulcsár (Hungary, Elite)

Monika Mularczyk (Poland, Elite)
Sandra Braz Bastos (Portugal, Elite)
Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia, Elite)
Pernilla Larsson (Sweden, Elite)

Sara Persson (Sweden, Elite)

Esther Staubili (Switzerland, Elite)
Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine, Elite)

GUESTS
Lei Zhang (China)
Yinhao Shen (China)

*  = Selected as VAR

Referees who are missing on this list shouldn't be appointed for a game in KO stages. As already reported, during the same days the new FIFA referees will attend their Introductory Course, having also the chance to work together with the Top referees. You can find the new names on international list here, in this previous post.