Bakary Gassama

Gassama as referee at the Confederation Cup 2017

Bakary Papa Gassama (born February 10, 1979 ) is a Gambian football referee .

Career

Gassama has been a FIFA referee since 2007 . At the 2012 Olympic soccer tournament , he led two preliminary round games and was appointed fourth official in the final. He also directed games at the 2012 and 2013 African Championships and in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup . In 2013 he was also scheduled for two games each at the U20 World Cup and the Club World Cup. As the first representative of his country, he led a game at the 2014 World Cup, the 2-0 of the Netherlands against Chile.

He was nominated by FIFA as the only main referee from the African Confederation (CAF) for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia .

On May 31, 2019, Gassama led the final second leg of the 2019 CAF Champions League between defending champion Espérance Tunis and Wydad Casablanca . After 60 minutes, he interrupted this when the score was 1: 0 when he wanted to have his decision on the not given 1: 1 equalization checked by video evidence and it was defective. After an hour of interruption, he finished the game. This was followed by tumultuous clashes. Tunis won the Champions League with a 1-1 draw in the first leg, in which there were already abnormalities.

In addition to his arbitration work, Gassama works as a businessman.

Tournament stakes

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2014

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 23, 2014	São Paulo	Netherlands	Chile	2: 0 (0: 0)

Appearances at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 21, 2017	Sochi	Mexico	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 1)

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2018

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 16, 2018	Saransk	Peru	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 0)

Web links

Commons : Bakary Gassama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Statistics at weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 - Referees , fifa.com
2. ↑ Africa Champions League - Chaos and abandonment in the final , on sportschau.de. Retrieved June 1, 2019.