Cüneyt Çakır

Cüneyt Çakır
Cüneyt Çakır, June 2018
Personal
Surname	Cüneyt Çakır
birthday	November 23, 1976
place of birth	Istanbul , Turkey
job	Insurance broker
Games by division
Years	Division	Games
1998–2001 1999–2016 2001– 2006– 2007– 2014–2016 2016–	TFF 2nd Lig TFF 1st Lig Süper Lig European Cup Internationals Qatar Stars League Saudi Professional League	0 at least 057 at least 312 at least 076 at least 064 3 4
Finals
Georgian Football Cup 2006/07 Turkish Football Cup 2009/10 Turkish Football Super Cup 2012 FIFA Club World Cup 2012 UEFA Champions League 2014/15 Turkish Football Super Cup 2015 Kazakh Football Cup 2015 Turkish Football Cup 2017/18 Turkish Football Super Cup 2018 Saudi Arabian Football Supercup 2018
Status: February 22, 2019

Cüneyt Çakır [ ˈdʒy.nɛjt ˈtʃɑ.kɯɾ ] (born November 23, 1976 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish football referee .

Referee profile

Cüneyt Çakır is regarded as a sovereign referee, which is expressed by his level-headed, strict and disciplined appearance with few gestures on the football field. For example, Çakır quickly warns football players with cards or more often whistles foul play instead of letting the game go on, and he does not allow himself to be influenced by heated spectator atmospheres. Thus, he exudes his authority and brings more calm into the hectic soccer game.

Due to his achievements, he is regularly used in Istanbul derbies by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) .

Career

Cüneyt Çakır with his levelheadedness , October 2016.

Cüneyt Çakır began his Süper Lig career on September 29, 2001 with the league game Malatyaspor against Çaykur Rizespor .

He has been on the FIFA list of football referees since 2006 . Because of his good performance, he was invited to the 2007 UEFA referee seminar and promoted to the Premier Development category . In May 2008, at the age of 32, Çakır took part in the UEFA referee seminar as a talented referee, where the topic was “protecting players and games”. On September 29, 2010, he directed his first game in the Champions League group phase, namely the match between Rubin Kazan and FC Barcelona . He also directed other Champions League group stage games.

Çakır was established in June 2011 in the elite group of the UEFA Referees promoted and should thus Games of the Champions League knockout round lead.

At 35, he was the youngest of the twelve referees to take part in the 2012 European Football Championship . In addition, Çakır led the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup final in Japan, where he was also the youngest referee of the tournament.

At the 2014 World Cup , he headed two group stage matches and the semi-finals between the Netherlands and Argentina.

In May 2015, UEFA announced that Çakır had been selected as referee for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League final . He directed this final between Juventus Turin and FC Barcelona in Berlin's Olympic Stadium in June 2015 . A year earlier in the final of the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League , Çakır accompanied the final as fourth official . Çakır took part in the 2016 European Football Championship as one of 18 referees .

At the invitation of the referee manager Howard Webb and operator of the Saudi Professional League in March 2016, he was guest referee in a league match in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , between Al-Ahli and Al-Shabab .

Furthermore, Çakır acted as referee for the Olympic football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . He was selected by FIFA as one of 36 referees for the 2018 Football World Cup in summer 2018.

Placements in the election for World Referee of the Year

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) annually awards the World Referee of the Year .

year	rank	Points	source
2011	21st	unknown
2012	02.	73
2013	05.	40
2014	08th.	13
2015	03.	71
2016	05.	28
2017	08th.	39
2018	05.	55
2019	05.	47

Cüneyt Çakır warning a football player with a yellow card , August 2018.

classification

• since 1994 TFF referee
• since 2001 Süper Lig referee
• FIFA referee since 2006
• UEFA elite referee since 2011

Use in tournaments

• U-19 European Championship 2007
• U-21 European Championship 2009
• U-20 World Cup 2011
• UEFA European Championship 2012
• FIFA Club World Cup 2012
• U-20 World Cup 2013
• 2014 FIFA World Cup
• 2016 UEFA European Championship
• 2016 Summer Olympics
• U-20 World Cup 2017
• FIFA World Cup 2018
• UEFA Nations League 2018/19

Appearances at the European Football Championship 2012

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 11, 2012	Kiev	Ukraine	Sweden	2: 1 (0: 0)
Group stage	June 18, 2012	Poses	Italy	Ireland	2: 0 (1: 0)
Semifinals	June 27, 2012	Donetsk	Portugal	Spain	2: 4 i. E. (0: 0 a.d.)
Final ( 4th official )	July 1, 2012	Kiev	Spain	Italy	4: 0 (2: 0)

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2014

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	17th June 2014	Fortaleza	Brazil	Mexico	0-0
Group stage	June 26, 2014	Curitiba	Algeria	Russia	1: 1 (0: 1)
Semifinals	July 9, 2014	São Paulo	Netherlands	Argentina	2: 4 i. E. (0: 0 a.d.)

Appearances at the European Football Championship 2016

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 14, 2016	Saint-Etienne	Portugal	Iceland	1: 1 (1: 0)
Group stage	June 18, 2016	Bordeaux	Belgium	Ireland	3: 0 (0: 0)
Round of 16	June 27, 2016	Saint-Denis	Italy	Spain	2: 0 (1: 0)

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2018

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 15, 2018	St. Petersburg	Morocco	Iran	0: 1 (0: 0)
Group stage	June 26, 2018	St. Petersburg	Nigeria	Argentina	1: 2 (0: 1)
Semifinals	11th July 2018	Moscow	Croatia	England	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)

Used in the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	Oct 13, 2018	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Germany	3: 0 (1: 0)

Trivia

Private

Cüneyt Çakır studied business administration . In addition to his work as an arbitrator, he is a full-time insurance broker.

Assault

• At the Turkish first division game on March 17, 2007 between the home team Vestel Manisaspor and bottom of the table Sakaryaspor Çakır was a victim of assault . In the 38th minute of the game he sent the goalkeeper Bülent Ataman of the home team with a red card from the field. After a tussle between Manisa player Selçuk İnan and Sakarya player Alejandro Capurro , a pack formed . The goalkeeper Ataman stormed excitedly from his goalkeeping zone towards Çakır and protested the decision extremely and caused the game to be interrupted for a long time. Ataman had to be held back by his teammates because of his agitation. After a conversation between Çakır and his assistant referee, he showed the players the yellow card, then Ataman got upset again and this time attacked Çakır aggressively and thus the goalkeeper received the red card. Then tore Ataman him the FIFA - cockade on his jersey. Subsequently, the Manisaspor goalkeeping coach Metin Bayındır interfered from the field and gave the Turkish referee a punch . After these riots , Çakır withdrew with his team of referees into the dressing room and decided to break off the football match early. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) did not restart the match and rated it as a 3-0 defeat for Vestel Manisaspor. The consequences: after this game Manisa coach Ersun Yanal resigned from his position. The TFF ethics committee initially sanctioned the goalkeeper Ataman with a compulsory game ban of 20 games and the goalkeeper coach Bayındır with a three-year ban, but after appeals to the TFF arbitration board , it was reduced to twelve games or a shortened ban .

Reports

• Urs Meier : FC Bayern "cheated" by the referee? Four Truths About Referee Performance In: Focus Online . 4th May 2016
• Sven Flohr: "The referee killed Manchester" . In: The world . March 6, 2013
• Urs Meier: Ex-referee Meier: "Luckily Cakir is gone from England" In: Focus Online. March 6, 2013

Web links

Commons : Cüneyt Çakır  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cüneyt Çakır in the database of worldreferee.com (English)
• Cüneyt Çakır in the database of weltfussball.de
• Cüneyt Çakır in the soccerway.com database
• Cüneyt Çakır in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Cüneyt Çakır in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hürriyet .com.tr: Cüneyt Çakır, Kazakistan Kupası Finali'ni yönetecek! from November 20, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b c} kicker.de : Cakir heads Champions League final (May 18, 2015) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Sabah .com.tr: CÜNEYT ÇAKIR - BİYOGRAFİ , accessed on November 6, 2015
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Deutschlandfunk Nova : Referee performance Croatia - England Cüneyt Çakir - the stoic from July 12, 2018
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Versicherungsbote.de: Insurance broker whistles final in Berlin on June 5, 2015
6. ↑ fussball-sr.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website no longer available online)  
7. ↑ UEFA .com: "Protecting Players and the Game" (7 May 2008) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
8. ↑ see web link → Cüneyt Çakır in the database of worldreferee.com (English) → Matches → Champions League 2010–2011… , accessed on January 12, 2020
9. ↑ Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu : Cüneyt Çakır becomes UEFA Elite Category referee (June 16, 2011) (English). Retrieved January 12, 2020.
10. ↑ UEFA .com: Referee appointed for UEFA Euro 2012 (December 19, 2011) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
11. ↑ ^{a b} fifa.com: impartial named - ... the youngest is 35-year-old Cuneyt Cakir ... from November 1, 2012
12. ↑ UEFA .com: Çakır whistles for the final of the UEFA Champions League (18 May 2015) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
13. ↑ UEFA .com: Kuipers heads the final of the Champions League -… The fourth official will be the Turk Cüneyt Çakır… (7 May 2014) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
14. ↑ UEFA .com: 18 referees appointed for UEFA EURO 2016 (December 15, 2015) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
15. ↑ TFF .org: Cüneyt Çakır, Al Ahli-Al Shabab maçını yönetecek (Turkish) from March 3, 2016 (accessed June 12, 2016)
16. ↑ IHA .com.tr: Cüneyt Çakır, Al Ahli ile Al Shabab maçını yönetti (Turkish) of March 7, 2016 (accessed on June 12, 2016)
17. ↑ Referees - Olympic Football Tournament Men. (PDF) fifa.com, May 2, 2016
18. ↑ de.fifa.com
19. ↑ ^{a b} iffhs.de: World Referee 2012 ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ... The 36 year old Turk Cüneyt Çakır catapulted himself from 21st place (2011) to the second best referee in the world in 2012 ..., accessed on June 16, 2016.
20. ↑ iffhs.de: “The World's Best Referee 2013” , accessed on February 15, 2016.
21. ↑ iffhs.de: "The World's Best Referee 2014" , accessed on February 15, 2016.
22. ↑ iffhs.de: “The World's Best Referee 2015” , accessed on February 15, 2016.
23. ↑ iffhs.de: “The World's Best Referee 2016” , accessed on March 7, 2018.
24. ↑ iffhs.de: "The World's Best Referee 2017" , accessed on March 7, 2018.
25. ↑ iffhs.de: "The World's Best Referee 2018" , accessed on February 23, 2019.
26. ↑ iffhs.de: "The World's Best Referee 2019" , accessed on January 12, 2020.
27. ↑ Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu : Cüneyt Çakır invited to the UEFA Euro 2012 Finals (December 20, 2011) (English). Retrieved January 12, 2020.
28. ↑ UEFA .com: Referees for the U21 European Championship have been chosen (June 14, 2009) . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
29. ↑ ^{a b c} UEFA .com: Yanal leaves Manisaspor on March 19, 2007 . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
30. ↑ ^{a b} Match report: Vestel Manisaspor 0-3 (Hük.) Sakaryaspor from March 17, 2007 in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish). Retrieved January 12, 2020.
31. ↑ ^{a b} Cüneyt Çakır'a atılan yumruğun perde arkası! In: tr.beinsports.com. beIN Sports (TR), March 2007, accessed January 12, 2020 (Turkish). 
32. ↑ PFDK Kararları - 27 Mart 2007. In: tff.org. Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu , March 27, 2007, accessed January 12, 2020 (Turkish). 
33. ↑ Tahkim Kurulu Kararları - April 25, 2007. In: tff.org. Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu , April 25, 2007, accessed January 12, 2020 (Turkish).