Fahad Al-Mirdasi

Fahad Al-Mirdasi ( Arabic فهد المرداسي, DMG Fahd al-Mirdāsī ; * August 16, 1985 in Riyadh ) is a former Saudi Arabian football referee .

Career

Al-Mirdasi was approved by FIFA as an international referee since 2011 . It was used in 2015 at the AFC Asian Cup and the U-20 World Cup in 2015 , in 2016 at the Olympic Football Tournament and in the 2015 Asian Football Championship and in 2017 at the Confed Cup in Russia.

Al-Mirdasi was appointed as referee for the 2018 World Cup in Russia together with his assistants Mohammed Al-Abakry and Abdulah Alshalwai . In the following, Al-Mirdasi admitted that he had demanded a bribe from the President of Ittihad before the final of the Saudi Arabian King Cup between Ittihad FC and Al-Faisaly FC and was then recalled shortly before the game by the Saudi Arabian association SAFF and for life blocked. As a result, Al-Mirdasi and his two assistants were also excluded from FIFA as referees at the World Cup at the end of May 2018.

International assignments

Appearances at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	04th Aug 2016	Manaus	Sweden	Colombia	2: 2 (1: 1)
Group stage	10 Aug 2016	Belo Horizonte	Germany	Fiji	10: 0 (6: 0)

Appearances at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 24, 2017	Kazan	Mexico	Russia	2: 1 (1: 1)
3rd place match	02nd July 2017	Moscow	Portugal	Mexico	2: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://worldreferee.com/referee/fahad_al%20mirdasi/bio
2. ↑ http://refereesfifa.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/2015-afc-asian-cup-australia-selected.html
3. ↑ http://www.persianfootball.com/news/2016/01/13/2016-afc-u-23-championship-day-2-recap/
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C8twI0dco
5. ↑ World Cup referee asks about bribes , on spiegel.de. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
6. ↑ Saudi referee excluded from World Cup for bribery , on sportschau.de, May 30, 2018. Accessed June 27, 2018.