FIFA Women's World Cup referees
FIFA Women's World Cup referees are FIFA international referees who officiate at the FIFA Women's World Cup matches.
World Cup Final match officials
| Year | Referee | Assistant Referees | Reserve Referees and Assistant Referees | Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 [1] |
Vadim Zhuk |
Ingrid Jonsson Gertrud Regus |
Reserve Referees since 1999 Reserve Assistant Referees since 2015 |
Video Assistant Referees (VARs) and Assistant VARs since 2019 |
| 1995 [2] |
Ingrid Jonsson |
Gitte Holm Maria Rodríguez | ||
| 1999 [3] |
Nicole Petignat |
Ghislaine Labbe Ana Pérez |
Katriina Elovirta | |
| 2003 [4] |
Cristina Ionescu |
Irina Mirt Katarzyna Wierzbowska |
Sonia Denoncourt | |
| 2007 [5] |
Tammy Ogston |
Rita Muñoz María Isabel Tovar |
Mayumi Oiwa | |
| 2011 [6] |
Bibiana Steinhaus |
Katrin Rafalski Marina Wozniak |
Jenny Palmqvist | |
| 2015 [7] |
Kateryna Monzul |
Yolanda Parga Nataliya Rachynska |
Claudia Umpiérrez Loreto Toloza | |
| 2019 [8] |
Stéphanie Frappart |
Manuela Nicolosi Michelle O'Neill |
Claudia Umpiérrez Luciana Mascaraña |
Carlos del Cerro Grande José María Sánchez Martínez Mariana de Almeida |
| 2023 |
Tori Penso |
Brooke Mayo Kathryn Nesbitt |
Yoshimi Yamashita Mijensa Rensch |
Tatiana Guzmán Pol van Boekel Ella De Vries Armando Villarreal |
By country
As of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final, 25 countries have been represented in the officials body of the FIFA Women's World Cup Final.
| Country | Total | Referees | Assistant Referees |
Reserve Referees | Reserve Assistant Referees | VARs | Assistant VARs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| United States | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uruguay | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Romania | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chile | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Peru | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republic of Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suriname | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By confederation
| Confederation | Total | Referees | Assistant Referees |
Reserve Referees | Reserve Assistant Referees | VARs | Assistant VARs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA | 25 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| CONCACAF | 10 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| CONMEBOL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| AFC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CAF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| OFC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals: | 44 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Number of matches
There are 11 referees who have managed seven or more matches:[9]
10 matches:
- Nicole Petignat (1999, 2003, 2007)
- Stéphanie Frappart (2015, 2019, 2023)
9 matches:
- Sonia Denoncourt (1995, 1999, 2003)
- Tammy Ogston (1999, 2003, 2007)
- Kari Seitz (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011)
- Anna-Marie Keighley (2015, 2019, 2023)
- Kateryna Monzul (2015, 2019, 2023)
8 matches:
7 matches:
- Im Eun-ju (1999, 2003)
- Carol Chénard (2011, 2015)
- Melissa Borjas (2015, 2019, 2023)
References
- ^ "Match Report Final 1991".
- ^ "Match Report Final 1995".
- ^ "Match Report Final 1999".
- ^ "Match Report Final 2003".
- ^ "Match Report Final 2007".
- ^ "Match Report Final 2011".
- ^ "Match Report Final 2015".
- ^ "Match Report Final 2019".
- ^ "Women World Cup » Referees". WorldFootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 2023-08-09.