Best refereed match all time
| Olegario Benquerenca | (POR) | 9.8 |
| Hector Baldassi | (ARG) | 9.8 |
| Jorge Larrionda | (URU) | 9.8 |
| Daniele Orsato | (ITA) | 9.5 |
| Imer Machado | (COL) | 9.5 |
| Massimo Busacca | (SUI) | 9.5 |
| Alan Kelly | (IRL) | 9.5 |
| Frank de Bleeckere | (BEL) | 9.5 |
| Kristinn Jakobsson | (ISL) | 9.5 |
| Serge Gumienny | (BEL) | 9.5 |
| Howard Webb | (ENG) | 9.3 |
| Claus Bo Larsen | (DEN) | 9.3 |
| Jiri Jech | (CZE) | 9.3 |
| Pedro Proença | (POR) | 9.3 |
| Felix Brych | (GER) | 9.3 |
| Sergio Pezzotta | (ARG) | 9.2 |
| Jorge Larrionda | (URU) | 9.1 |
| Claus Bo Larsen | (DEN) | 9.0 |
| Jorge Larrionda | (URU) | 9.0 |
| Claus Bo Larsen | (DEN) | 9.0 |
| Massimo Busacca | (SUI) | 9.0 |
| Martin Hansson | (SWE) | 9.0 |
| Mohsen Torky | (IRI) | 9.0 |
| Peter Fröjdfeldt | (SWE) | 9.0 |
| Benito Archundia | (MEX) | 9.0 |
Worst refereed match all time
| Konrad Plautz | (AUT) | 1.0 |
| Pieter Vink | (NED) | 1.0 |
| Ivan Bebek | (CRO) | 2.0 |
| Firat Aydinus | (TUR) | 2.3 |
| Samwel Langat Kipngetich | (KEN) | 2.3 |
| Joaquin Antequera | (BOL) | 2.5 |
| Carlos Torres Núñez | (PAR) | 2.5 |
| Zsolt Szabo | (HUN) | 2.8 |
| Michael Hester | (NZL) | 2.8 |
| Wolfgang Stark | (GER) | 2.9 |
| Ionut Marius Avram | (ROM) | 3.0 |
| Víctor Carrillo | (PER) | 3.0 |
| Stephan Studer | (SUI) | 3.0 |
| Ivan Bebek | (CRO) | 3.0 |
| Sung Mi Cha | (KOR) | 3.1 |
| Víctor Carrillo | (PER) | 3.3 |
| Omar Ponce | (ECU) | 3.3 |
| Juan Ernesto Soto Arvalo | (VEN) | 3.3 |
| Laurent Duhamel | (FRA) | 3.3 |
| Ivan Bebek | (CRO) | 3.3 |
| Olegario Benquerenca | (POR) | 3.5 |
| Carlos Clos Gomez | (ESP) | 3.5 |
| Tom Henning Ovrebo | (NOR) | 3.6 |
| Carlos Torres Núñez | (PAR) | 3.8 |
| Claudio Puga | (CHI) | 3.8 |
This top 10 is dynamically generated. All measures are taken to make this a fair list, but it remains the result of a script. It is based on the average of all marks ever given.
An extra percentage is awarded for the number of matches that were reported on. (We don't want a referee who officiated 10 very good matches to be surpassed by a ref who delivered just 1 - albeit excellent - performance).
Marks that are either too high or too low are discarded.
If you were wondering why big names like Collina are not featured in these lists, well, we only started this site in 2005 so there just aren't any reports to do magic with.
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If you were wondering why big names like Collina are not featured in these lists, well, we only started this site in 2005 so there just aren't any reports to do magic with.
Number 1: Frank de Bleeckere
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A third generation referee, Belgian Frank de Bleeckere started as a football player, but too often injured he decided to change his career. Belgian's World Cup record holder with 7 matches had to retire at the end of 2011 because of the age limit.
Number 2: Jorge Larrionda
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This referee, full name Jorge Luis Larrionda Pietrafiesa, was born 9 March 1968. Jorge was a football player himself, as striker he made it into the sixth division. As referee he made his debut in the first division in 1993 and was an international referee since 1998. He was seen by many as the very best referee in South America.
Larrionda retired at the end of 2011.
Number 3: Sergio Pezzotta
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Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Sergio Fabián Pezzotta is an international top referee and one of the most severe referees in the AFA League. He tends to show red cards whenever the rules allow him to. He started refereeing in Argentina´s 1st division in 1999. He is a CONMEBOL Elite Category referee.
Number 4: Massimo Busacca
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Born in the town of Belinzona in 1969 Massimo Busacca, who used to play football in a lower division in Ticino, started his career as a referee in 1990 and made it to the first division in 1996 . He got his FIFA badge in 1999 and has been busy on the international stage ever since. He was an Elite Category referee until June 2011 when he decided to retire.
Number 5: Howard Webb
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The career of UEFA Elite Category referee Howard Webb hasn't gone that smoothly, still it didn't take him long to reach the top. And the top was in 2010 with not only the CL final but also the final of the World Cup.
Number 6: Wolfgang Stark
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Bank employee Wolgang Stark from Bavaria already knew he wanted to become a referee when he was 14. In 1994 he reached the highest level in Germany, and in 1999 he got his FIFA license, at not yet 30.
He is a UEFA Elite Category referee.
Number 7: Viktor Kassai
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This Hungarian referee got his FIFA badge in 2003 and immediately started refereeing in the EUFA Cup. Kassai is a UEFA Elite Category referee.
Number 8: Olegario Benquerenca
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Whatever you say about Olegario Benquerenca, you can't say he is boring. The Portuguese 2010 World Cup quarter-final referee who often ends up on both our best and worst referees list, has a style of his own. Whether it's on TV or on the field, Olegario is always a little campy.
Number 9: Felix Brych
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It's doctor Felix Brych. The German referee is a doctor in law. His paper was about sports. Brych was promoted to the elite category at the start of season 2009-2010
Number 10: Carlos Amarilla
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International referee since 1997, electrical engineer Carlos Arecio Amarilla Demarqui has seen it all: youth tournaments, qualifiers, semi-finals, finals and even World Cup matches.
He is a CONMEBOL Elite category referee.
Bummer! Just outside our top 10: Claus Bo Larsen
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It came as a bit of a shock for everybody in Denmark (and himself), when it turned out Claus Bo Larsen, who did pass the fitness test and was on the long list of 44, was not selected to officiate at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. The same happened for Euro 2008, and again for WC 2010. The Danes must be very bad lobbyists. Larsen was a UEFA Elite Category referee until he retired at the end of 2010. dynamically generated by WorldReferee