Who are the officials for UEFA Women’s EURO 2022?
Who are the officials for UEFA Women’s EURO 2022? Following the completion of UEFA’s deliberations, we are now in a position to reveal who will be in charge of the whistles and flags at the Women’s EURO 2022, which will get underway on July 6 of that year.
There will be a total of 12 referees overseeing the action at the 31 matches that are scheduled to take place between the 6th and the 31st of July. Each of these matches will be presided over by a different official.
It is expected that the competition that will take place in England will be something of a first for the sport as a whole because it will make use of video assistant referees (VAR).
UEFA Women’s Euros
Jana Adamkova – Czech Republic
Iuliana Demetrescu – Romania
Cheryl Foster- Wales
Stephanie Frappart – France
Marta Huerta de Aza – Spain
Riem Hussein – Germany
Lina Lehtovaara – Finland
Ivana Martincic – Croatia
Kateryna Monzul – Ukraine
Tess Olofsson – Sweden
Esther Staubli – Switzerland
What is a refereeing team?
An officiating team is comprised of a referee, two assistant referees, a fourth official, and a team of two video assistance referees (VAR). The referee acts as the leader of the officiating team.
Assistant referees
Sara Telek – Austria
Mary Blanco Bolivar – Colombia
Sanja Rodak Karsic – Croatia
Polyxeni Irodotou – Cyprus
Lucie Ratajova – Czech Republic
Sian Massey-Ellis – England
Lisa Rashid – England
In addition, there are two support officials who can perform the duties of either the fourth officials or the reserve assistant referees:
Ivana Projkovska (North Macedonia)
Lorraine Watson (Scotland)
VAR officials
Ella de Vries – Belgium
Chris Kavanagh – England
Guillermo Cuardo Fernandez – Spain
Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez – Spain
Benoit Millot – France
Maika Vanderstichel – France and many more.
Is this the very first occasion that a match at the Women’s European Championship has made use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system?
For the very first time in the annals of the Women’s European Championship, each and every one of the matches that take place during the championship’s final phase will make use of video assistant referees. This will be a first of its kind in the history of the Women’s European Championship.
Despite this, video assistant referees have been used in women’s soccer competitions in the past, the most notable instance being the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. In this match, they will be utilized in men’s soccer for the very first time after being introduced as a new rule.
As a result of a decision that was taken with the assistance of the video assistant referee, Argentina was successful in removing Scotland from the competition (VAR). It was determined that Scotland’s goalkeeper, Lee Alexander, had shifted out of position while attempting to save a penalty kick. Alexander was playing for Scotland. The kick in question had been awarded to the team that we were going up against in the competition.