All-Time Officials – World Cup Referees

All-Time Officials Roster

Officials	Nationality	Games	Referee	AR	Red
John Langenus	Belgium	7	5	2	0
Ulises Saucedo	Bolivia	6	1	5	0
Henri Christophe	Belgium	5	1	4	0
Gilberto Almeida Rego	Brazil	5	3	2	0
Alberto Warnken	Chile	4	1	4	1
Domingo Lombardi	Uruguay	4	1	3	0
Pedro Escartin	Spain	4	0	4	0
Bohumil Zenisek	Czechoslovakia	4	0	4	0
Thomas Balway	France	4	1	3	0
Mihaly Ivancsics	Hungary	4	0	4	0
Francisco Mateucci	Uruguay	4	1	3	0
René Mercet	Switzerland	3	2	1	0
Alfred Birlem	Germany	3	1	2	0
Rinaldo Barlassina	Italy	3	3	0	0
Ivan Eklind	Sweden	3	3	0	0
José Macías	Argentina	3	2	1	0
Anibal Tejada	Uruguay	3	2	1	0
Louis Baert	Belgium	3	1	2	0
Alois Beranek	Austria	3	1	2	0
Johannes van Moorsel	Netherlands	2	1	1	0
Francesco Mattea	Italy	2	2	0	0
Albino Carraro	Italy	2	1	1	0
Ricardo Vallarino	Uruguay	2	1	1	0
Martin Aphesteguy	Uruguay	2	0	2	0
Costel Râdulescu	Romania	2	0	2	0
Camilo Caironi	Italy	2	0	2	0
Jacques Baert	France	2	0	2	0
Ettore Carminati	Italy	1	0	1	0
Otello Sassi	Italy	1	0	1	0
Raffaele Scorzoni	Italy	1	0	1	0
Ferruccio Bonivento	Italy	1	0	1	0
Ermenegildo Melandri	Italy	1	0	1	0
Giuseppe Turbiani	Italy	1	0	1	0
Eugen Braun	Austria	1	1	0	0
Youssuf Mohamed	Egypt	1	0	1	0
Gaspar Vallejo	Mexico	1	0	2	0
Gualberto Alonso	Mexico	1	0	1	0
Giuseppe Scarpi	Italy	1	0	1	0
Generoso Dattilo	Italy	1	0	1	0

Chronological List of Referees

#	Officials	Nationality	Games	Referee	AR	Red
1	Domingo Lombardi	Uruguay	4	1	3	0
2	José Macías	Argentina	3	2	1	0
3	Anibal Tejada	Uruguay	3	2	1	0
4	Alberto Warnken	Chile	4	1	4	1
5	Gilberto Almeida Rego	Brazil	5	3	2	0
6	Henri Christophe	Belgium	5	1	4	0
7	Francisco Mateucci	Uruguay	4	1	3	0
8	John Langenus	Belgium	8	6	2	0
9	Ulises Saucedo	Bolivia	6	1	5	0
10	Thomas Balway	France	4	1	3	0
11	Ricardo Vallarino	Uruguay	2	1	1	0
12	René Mercet	Switzerland	3	2	1	0
13	Alfred Birlem	Germany	3	1	2	0
14	Johannes van Moorsel	Netherlands	3	1	2	0
15	Rinaldo Barlassina	Italy	3	3	0	0
16	Ivan Eklind	Sweden	3	3	0	0
17	Francesco Mattea	Italy	2	2	0	0
18	Eugen Braun	Austria	1	1	0	0
19	Louis Baert	Belgium	3	1	2	0
20	Alois Beranek	Austria	3	1	2	0
21	Albino Carraro	Italy	2	1	1	0
22	Giuseppe Scarpi	Italy	2	1	1	0
23	Hans Wüthrich	Switzerland	0	0	0	0
24	Roger Conrie	France	0	0	0	0
25	Lucien Leclercq	France	0	0	0	0
26	Gustav Krist	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	0
27	Pál von Hertzka	Hungary	0	0	0	0
28	Georges Capdeville	France	0	0	0	0
29	George Reader	England	0	0	0	0
30	Karel van der Meer	-	0	0	0	0
31	Giovanni Galeati	-	0	0	0	0
32	Jean Lutz	-	0	0	0	0
33	Mário Vianna	-	0	0	0	0
34	Ramón Azón Romá	-	0	0	0	0
35	Reg Leafe	-	0	0	0	0
36	Alberto Malcher	-	0	0	0	0
37	George Mitchell	-	0	0	0	0
38	Mervyn Griffiths	-	0	0	0	0
39	Arthur Ellis	-	0	0	0	0
40	Mario Gardelli	-	0	0	0	0
41	Paul Wyssling	-	0	0	0	0
42	Laurent Franken	-	0	0	0	0
43	José Vieira da Costa	-	0	0	0	0
44	Raymond Vincenti	-	0	0	0	0
45	Emil Schmetzer	West Germany	0	0	0	0
46	Vincenzo Orlandini	-	0	0	0	0
47	Charlie Faultless	-	0	0	0	0
48	Manuel Asensi	-	0	0	0	0
49	Vasa Stefanović	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
50	Bill Ling	-	0	0	0	0
51	Esteban Marino	-	0	0	0	0
52	Carl Erich Steiner	-	0	0	0	0
53	István Zsolt	-	0	0	0	0
54	Nikolai Latyshev	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
55	Juan Gardeazábal Garay	-	0	0	0	0
56	José María Codesal	-	0	0	0	0
57	Fritz Seipelt	-	0	0	0	0
58	Maurice Guigue	-	0	0	0	0
59	Sten Ahlner	-	0	0	0	0
60	Albert Dusch	West Germany	0	0	0	0
61	Leo Lemešić	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
62	Carl Frederik Jørgensen	-	0	0	0	0
63	Jack Mowat	-	0	0	0	0
64	Lucien van Nuffel	-	0	0	0	0
65	Martin Macko	-	0	0	0	0
66	Arne Eriksson	-	0	0	0	0
67	Jan Bronkhorst	-	0	0	0	0
68	Juan Brozzi	-	0	0	0	0
69	Joaquim Fernandes de Campos	-	0	0	0	0
70	Ken Aston	-	0	0	0	0
71	Andor Dorogi	-	0	0	0	0
72	Gottfried Dienst	-	0	0	0	0
73	Bob Davidson	-	0	0	0	0
74	Leo Horn	-	0	0	0	0
75	Karol Galba	-	0	0	0	0
76	Pierre Schwinte	-	0	0	0	0
77	João Etzel Filho	-	0	0	0	0
78	Branko Tesanić	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
79	Sergio Bustamante	-	0	0	0	0
80	Cesare Jonni	-	0	0	0	0
81	Arturo Yamasaki	-	0	0	0	0
82	Carlos Robles	-	0	0	0	0
83	Arthur Blavier	-	0	0	0	0
84	Hugh Phillips	-	0	0	0	0
85	Kurt Tschenscher	West Germany	0	0	0	0
86	Menachem Ashkenazi	-	0	0	0	0
87	Leo Callaghan	-	0	0	0	0
88	Dimitar Rumentchev	-	0	0	0	0
89	Ken Dagnall	-	0	0	0	0
90	Tofiq Bahramov	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
91	Ali Kandil	-	0	0	0	0
92	Konstantin Zečević	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
93	Rudolf Kreitlein	West Germany	0	0	0	0
94	Concetto Lo Bello	-	0	0	0	0
95	Bertil Lööw	-	0	0	0	0
96	George McCabe	-	0	0	0	0
97	Armando Marques	-	0	0	0	0
98	John Adair	-	0	0	0	0
99	Roberto Goicoechea	-	0	0	0	0
100	Jim Finney	-	0	0	0	0
101	Vital Loraux	-	0	0	0	0
102	Antonio Sbardella	-	0	0	0	0
103	Andrei Rădulescu	-	0	0	0	0
104	Jack Taylor	-	0	0	0	0
105	Ramón Barreto	-	0	0	0	0
106	Laurens van Ravens	-	0	0	0	0
107	Rudolf Scheurer	-	0	0	0	0
108	Rudi Glöckner	East Germany	0	0	0	0
109	Diego De Leo	-	0	0	0	0
110	Seyoum Tarekegn	-	0	0	0	0
111	José María Ortiz de Mendíbil	-	0	0	0	0
112	Abraham Klein	-	0	0	0	0
113	Rafael Hormázabal	-	0	0	0	0
114	Abel Aguilar Elizalde	-	0	0	0	0
115	Ferdinand Marschall	-	0	0	0	0
116	Henry Landauer	-	0	0	0	0
117	Ángel Norberto Coerezza	-	0	0	0	0
118	Antônio de Moraês	-	0	0	0	0
119	Antonio Ribeiro Saldanha	-	0	0	0	0
120	Roger Machin	-	0	0	0	0
121	Doğan Babacan	-	0	0	0	0
122	Youssou N’Diaye	-	0	0	0	0
123	Gerhard Schulenburg	West Germany	0	0	0	0
124	Károly Palotai	-	0	0	0	0
125	Edison Peréz Núñez	-	0	0	0	0
126	Clive Thomas	-	0	0	0	0
127	Vicente Llobregat	-	0	0	0	0
128	Mahmoud Mustafa Kamel	-	0	0	0	0
129	Arie van Gemert	-	0	0	0	0
130	Aurelio Angonese	-	0	0	0	0
131	Omar Delgado Gómez	-	0	0	0	0
132	Werner Winsemann	-	0	0	0	0
133	Govindasamy Suppiah	-	0	0	0	0
134	Pavel Kasakov	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
135	Jafar Namdar	-	0	0	0	0
136	Alfonso González Archundía	-	0	0	0	0
137	Nicolae Rainea	-	0	0	0	0
139	Erich Linemayr	-	0	0	0	0
140	Hans-Joachim Weyland	West Germany	0	0	0	0
141	Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez	-	0	0	0	0
142	Tony Boskovic	-	0	0	0	0
143	Luis Pestarino	-	0	0	0	0
144	John Gordon	-	0	0	0	0
145	António Garrido	-	0	0	0	0
146	Ulf Eriksson	-	0	0	0	0
147	Farouk Bouzo	-	0	0	0	0
148	Ángel Franco Martínez	-	0	0	0	0
149	Jean Dubach	-	0	0	0	0
150	Sergio Gonella	-	0	0	0	0
151	Charles Corver	-	0	0	0	0
152	Arnaldo Cézar Coelho	-	0	0	0	0
153	César Orosco	-	0	0	0	0
154	Robert Wurtz	-	0	0	0	0
155	Ferdinand Biwersi	West Germany	0	0	0	0
156	Alojzy Jarguz	-	0	0	0	0
157	Dušan Maksimović	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
158	Pat Partridge	-	0	0	0	0
159	Francis Rion	-	0	0	0	0
160	Juan Silvagno Cavanna	-	0	0	0	0
161	Vojtech Christov	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	0
162	Michel Vautrot	-	0	0	0	0
163	Augusto Lamo Castillo	-	0	0	0	0
164	Franz Wöhrer	-	0	0	0	0
165	David Socha	-	0	0	0	0
166	Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy	-	0	0	0	0
167	Enrique Labo Revoredo	-	0	0	0	0
168	Arturo Ithurralde	-	0	0	0	0
169	Juan Daniel Cardellino	-	0	0	0	0
170	Benjamin Dwomoh	-	0	0	0	0
171	Erik Fredriksson	-	0	0	0	0
172	Walter Eschweiler	West Germany	0	0	0	0
173	Belaid Lacarne	-	0	0	0	0
174	Luis Paulino Siles	-	0	0	0	0
175	Alexis Ponnet	-	0	0	0	0
176	Malcolm Moffatt	-	0	0	0	0
177	Yousef El-Ghoul	-	0	0	0	0
178	Bruno Galler	-	0	0	0	0
179	Henning Lund-Sørensen	-	0	0	0	0
180	Miroslav Stupar	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
181	Chan Tam Sun	-	0	0	0	0
182	Mario Rubio Vázquez	-	0	0	0	0
183	Clive White	-	0	0	0	0
184	Bogdan Dotchev	-	0	0	0	0
185	Luis Barrancos	-	0	0	0	0
186	Damir Matovinović	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
187	Rómulo Méndez Molina	-	0	0	0	0
188	Paolo Casarin	-	0	0	0	0
189	Gastón Castro	-	0	0	0	0
190	Bob Valentine	-	0	0	0	0
191	Gilberto Aristizábal Murcia	-	0	0	0	0
192	Héctor Ortiz	-	0	0	0	0
193	Adolf Prokop	East Germany	0	0	0	0
194	Chris Bambridge	-	0	0	0	0
195	Hernán Silva Arce	-	0	0	0	0
196	Victoriano Sánchez Arminio	-	0	0	0	0
197	Luigi Agnolin	-	0	0	0	0
198	José Luis Martínez Bazán	-	0	0	0	0
199	Carlos Espósito	-	0	0	0	0
200	Valeri Butenko	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
201	Volker Roth	West Germany	0	0	0	0
202	Edwin Picon-Ackong	-	0	0	0	0
203	Lajos Németh	-	0	0	0	0
204	Jan Keizer	-	0	0	0	0
205	Romualdo Arppi Filho	-	0	0	0	0
206	Fallaj Al-Shanar	-	0	0	0	0
207	Jamal Al Sharif	-	0	0	0	0
208	Gabriel González Roa	-	0	0	0	0
209	George Courtney	-	0	0	0	0
210	Horst Brummeier	Austria	0	0	0	0
211	Ali Bin Nasser	Tunisia	0	0	0	0
212	Ioan Igna	Romania	0	0	0	0
213	Jesús Díaz Palacio	Colombia	0	0	0	0
214	Antonio Márquez Ramírez	Mexico	0	0	0	0
215	Idrissa Traoré	-	0	0	0	0
216	Carlos Alberto Silva Valente	Portugal	0	0	0	0
217	Berny Ulloa Morera	Costa Rica	0	0	0	0
218	Zoran Petrović	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0
219	André Daina	Switzerland	0	0	0	0
220	Alan Snoddy	Northern Ireland	0	0	0	0
221	Shizuo Takada	Japan	0	0	0	0
222	Siegfried Kirschen	East Germany	0	0	0	0
223	Joël Quiniou	France	0	0	0	0
224	José Roberto Wright	-	0	0	0	0
225	Kurt Röthlisberger	Switzerland	0	0	0	0
226	Tullio Lanese	Italy	0	0	0	0
227	Peter Mikkelsen	Denmark	0	0	0	0
228	Juan Carlos Loustau	Argentina	0	0	0	0
229	Aron Schmidhuber	West Germany	0	0	0	0
230	Vincent Mauro	United States	0	0	0	0
231	Emilio Soriano Aladrén	Spain	0	0	0	0
232	Helmut Kohl	Austria	0	0	0	0
233	Edgardo Codesal Méndez	Mexico	0	0	0	0
234	George Smith	Scotland	0	0	0	0
235	Alexey Spirin	Soviet Union	0	0	0	0
236	Neji Jouini	Tunisia	0	0	0	0
237	Carlos Maciel	Paraguay	0	0	0	0
238	Marcel van Langenhove	Belgium	0	0	0	0
239	Elías Jácome Guerrero	Ecuador	0	0	0	0
240	Arturo Brizio Carter	Mexico	0	0	0	0
241	Francisco Oscar Lamolina	Argentina	0	0	0	0
242	Mario van der Ende	Netherlands	0	0	0	0
243	José Torres Cadena	Colombia	0	0	0	0
244	Sándor Puhl	Hungary	0	0	0	0
245	Alberto Tejada	Peru	0	0	0	0
246	Lim Kee Chong	Mauritius	0	0	0	0
247	Manuel Díaz Vega	Spain	0	0	0	0
248	Arturo Angeles	United States	0	0	0	0
249	Ernesto Filippi	Uruguay	0	0	0	0
250	Rodrigo Badilla	Costa Rica	0	0	0	0
251	Fabio Baldas	Italy	0	0	0	0
252	Hellmut Krug	Germany	0	0	0	0
253	Leslie Mottram	Scotland	0	0	0	0
254	Renato Marsiglia	Brazil	0	0	0	0
255	Philip Don	England	0	0	0	0
256	Bo Karlsson	Sweden	0	0	0	0
257	Ali Mohamed Bujsaim	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0
258	Pierluigi Pairetto	Italy	0	0	0	0
259	José María García-Aranda	Spain	0	0	0	0
260	Pirom Un-Prasert	Thailand	0	0	0	0
261	Lucien Bouchardeau	Niger	0	0	0	0
262	Epifanio González Chavez	Paraguay	0	0	0	0
263	Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid	Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0
264	Javier Castrilli	Argentina	0	0	0	0
265	Márcio Rezende de Freitas	Brazil	0	0	0	0
266	Esfandiar Baharmast	United States	0	0	0	0
267	Günter Benkö	Austria	0	0	0	0
268	Pierluigi Collina	Italy	0	0	0	0
269	Vítor Melo Pereira	Portugal	0	0	0	0
270	Masayoshi Okada	Japan	0	0	0	0
271	Said Belqola	Morocco	0	0	0	0
272	László Vágner	Hungary	0	0	0	0
273	Nikolai Levnikov	Russia	0	0	0	0
274	Gamal Al-Ghandour	Egypt	0	0	0	0
275	Edward Lennie	Australia	0	0	0	0
276	John Jairo Toro Rendón	Colombia	0	0	0	0
277	Mario Sánchez Yanten	Chile	0	0	0	0
278	Ian McLeod	South Africa	0	0	0	0
279	Ramesh Ramdhan	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0
280	Hugh Dallas	Scotland	0	0	0	0
281	Ryszard Wójcik	Poland	0	0	0	0
282	Kim Milton Nielsen	Denmark	0	0	0	0
283	Rune Pedersen	Norway	0	0	0	0
284	Urs Meier	-	0	0	0	0
285	Bernd Heynemann	-	0	0	0	0
286	Marc Batta	-	0	0	0	0
287	Paul Durkin	-	0	0	0	0
288	Toru Kamikawa	-	0	0	0	0
289	Saad Mane	-	0	0	0	0
290	Ubaldo Aquino	-	0	0	0	0
291	Gilles Veissière	-	0	0	0	0
292	Luboš Michel	-	0	0	0	0
293	Carlos Eugênio Simon	-	0	0	0	0
294	Mohamed Guezzaz	-	0	0	0	0
295	Lu Jun	-	0	0	0	0
296	Kim Young-Joo	-	0	0	0	0
297	Brian Hall	-	0	0	0	0
298	Kyros Vassaras	-	0	0	0	0
299	William Mattus Vega	-	0	0	0	0
300	Óscar Ruiz	-	0	0	0	0
301	Peter Prendergast	-	0	0	0	0
302	Byron Moreno	-	0	0	0	0
303	Carlos Batres	-	0	0	0	0
304	Terje Hauge	Norway	0	0	0	0
305	Felipe Ramos Rizo	-	0	0	0	0
306	René Ortubé	-	0	0	0	0
307	Ángel Sánchez	-	0	0	0	0
308	Graham Poll	-	0	0	0	0
309	Anders Frisk	-	0	0	0	0
310	Mourad Daami	-	0	0	0	0
311	Coffi Codjia	-	0	0	0	0
312	Markus Merk	-	0	0	0	0
313	Mark Shield	-	0	0	0	0
314	Jan Wegereef	-	0	0	0	0
315	Falla N’Doye	-	0	0	0	0
316	Antonio López Nieto	-	0	0	0	0
317	Horacio Elizondo	-	0	0	0	0
318	Marco Rodríguez	-	0	0	0	0
319	Shamsul Maidin	-	0	0	0	0
320	Frank De Bleeckere	-	0	0	0	0
321	Roberto Rosetti	-	0	0	0	0
322	Jorge Larrionda	-	0	0	0	0
323	Essam Abdel-Fatah	-	0	0	0	0
324	Carlos Amarilla	-	0	0	0	0
325	Valentin Ivanov	-	0	0	0	0
326	Benito Archundia	-	0	0	0	0
327	Massimo Busacca	-	0	0	0	0
328	Luis Medina Cantalejo	-	0	0	0	0
329	Éric Poulat	-	0	0	0	0
330	Ravshan Irmatov	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0
331	Yuichi Nishimura	-	0	0	0	0
332	Michael Hester	-	0	0	0	0
333	Wolfgang Stark	-	0	0	0	0
334	Héctor Baldassi	-	0	0	0	0
335	Stéphane Lannoy	-	0	0	0	0
336	Olegário Benquerença	-	0	0	0	0
337	Jerome Damon	-	0	0	0	0
338	Viktor Kassai	-	0	0	0	0
339	Eddy Maillet	-	0	0	0	0
340	Howard Webb	-	0	0	0	0
341	Khalil Al Ghamdi	-	0	0	0	0
342	Alberto Undiano Mallenco	-	0	0	0	0
343	Koman Coulibaly	-	0	0	0	0
344	Pablo Pozo	-	0	0	0	0
345	Wilmar Roldán	Colombia	0	0	0	0
346	Nicola Rizzoli	-	0	0	0	0
347	Noumandiez Doué	-	0	0	0	0
348	Mark Geiger	United States	0	0	0	0
349	Felix Brych	Germany	0	0	0	0
350	Björn Kuipers	Netherlands	0	0	0	0
351	Enrique Osses	-	0	0	0	0
352	Sandro Ricci	Brazil	0	0	0	0
353	Joel Aguilar	El Salvador	0	0	0	0
354	Milorad Mažić	Serbia	0	0	0	0
355	Carlos Vera	Ecuador	0	0	0	0
356	Jonas Eriksson	Sweden	0	0	0	0
357	Cüneyt Çakır	Turkey	0	0	0	0
358	Néstor Pitana	Argentina	0	0	0	0
359	Djamel Haimoudi	Algeria	0	0	0	0
360	Pedro Proença	Portugal	0	0	0	0
361	Carlos Velasco Carballo	Spain	0	0	0	0
362	Ben Williams	Australia	0	0	0	0
363	Peter O’Leary	New Zealand	0	0	0	0
364	Bakary Gassama	Gambia	0	0	0	0
365	Nawaf Shukralla	Bahrain	0	0	0	0
366	Gianluca Rocchi	Italy	0	0	0	0
367	Andrés Cunha	Uruguay	0	0	0	0
368	Szymon Marciniak	Poland	0	0	0	0
369	Malang Diedhiou	Senegal	0	0	0	0
370	Alireza Faghani	Iran	0	0	0	0
371	César Arturo Ramos	Mexico	0	0	0	0
372	Janny Sikazwe	Zambia	0	0	0	0
373	Damir Skomina	Slovenia	0	0	0	0
374	Enrique Cáceres	Paraguay	0	0	0	0
375	Clément Turpin	France	0	0	0	0
376	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Spain	0	0	0	0
377	Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0
378	Matthew Conger	New Zealand	0	0	0	0
379	Jair Marrufo	United States	0	0	0	0
380	Gehad Grisha	Egypt	0	0	0	0
381	Sergei Karasev	Russia	0	0	0	0