Felix Brych

Felix Brych
Personal
Surname	Felix Brych
birthday	3rd August 1975
place of birth	Munich , Germany
job	Head of Department Bavarian Football Association
Club information
society	SV Am Hart Munich
Games by division
Years	Division	Games
since 2001 since 2004 since 2007 since 2007	2. Bundesliga 1. Bundesliga international matches, European Cup	116 278 50 76
Tournaments
2012 Summer Olympics Confederations Cup 2013 Football World Cup 2014 European Football Championship 2016 Football World Cup 2018
Finals
UEFA Europa League 2013/14 DFB Cup 2014/15 UEFA Champions League 2016/17
Awards
* DFB referee of the year 2013 DFB referee of the year 2015 DFB referee of the year 2016 World Referee of the Year 2017 DFB referee of the year 2018
As of March 7, 2020

Felix Brych (born August 3, 1975 in Munich ) is a German football referee and lawyer .

Life

Felix Brych visited the Maximiliansgymnasium Munich until graduation in 1995. He studied law and was founded in 2004 by the University of Regensburg to Dr. iur. PhD. He works at the Bavarian Football Association as head of the talent development & referee department .

Soccer

Brych has been a DFB referee since 1999 and whistles for SV Am Hart Munich . Since 2001 he has been directing games in the second division and since 2004 games in the Bundesliga . He made his Bundesliga debut on August 28, 2004 in the game Hertha BSC against 1. FSV Mainz 05 . So far, he has made 214 appearances in the Bundesliga (as of May 2017). In October 2003 he headed a game in the South Korean K-League , and since 2008 he has also whistled games in the Saudi Arabian League. He has been a FIFA referee since January 2007 . He made his UEFA Champions League debut in 2008 with the match between Liverpool FC and PSV Eindhoven . His first international match as a referee was the European Championship qualifier between Luxembourg and Romania in 2007 (2-0). At UEFA he was promoted to the second highest category in 2008; since the 2009/2010 season he has been a member of the elite group. After the 2012/13 season, Brych was named Referee of the Year by the DFB on June 13th .

Brych was called up for the 2012 Olympics . There he initially headed the game between Senegal and Uruguay (result 2-0) on July 29, 2012, in which Uruguay lost an Olympic soccer game for the first time. He distributed six yellow cards and one red card . In the game between Brazil and Honduras he showed eight yellow and two yellow-red cards .

Brych played on May 15, 2013 in the final of the UEFA Europa League in Amsterdam between Benfica Lisbon and Chelsea FC as fourth official (main referee was the Dutch Björn Kuipers ). As a referee, he took part in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil.

One of the most unusual games he directed was the encounter between SV Wehen Wiesbaden and VfB Stuttgart in the first main round of the 2007/08 DFB Cup . There Brych dealt seven yellow and four red cards. He awarded the fastest red card in Bundesliga history on the first matchday of the 2010/11 season in the game 1. FC Köln against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He sent Youssef Mohamad off after just 87 seconds for preventing a clear scoring opportunity. In the 2013/14 Bundesliga season , Brych came under fire when he finally rated a ball that landed through a hole in the net from the outside as a goal in the match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayer 04 Leverkusen on matchday nine Opponent Hoffenheim denied a normal goal, so that Leverkusen won 2-1.

On November 20, 2013, Brych led the intercontinental playoff return match between New Zealand and Mexico in Wellington , which Mexico won 4-2 and qualified for the World Cup after winning the home game at the Aztec Stadium in Mexico 5-1.

On January 15, 2014, Brych, along with his assistants Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp, was named as one of 25 referee teams for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On May 15, 2014, he was in charge of the Europa League final between Sevilla FC and Benfica Lisbon in Turin , which Sevilla FC won 4-2 on penalties.

On May 30, 2015, Brych led the 2014/15 DFB Cup final between Borussia Dortmund and VfL Wolfsburg in the Berlin Olympic Stadium together with his assistants Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp . Robert Hartmann was assigned to the fourth official.

On December 15, 2015, Brych was nominated as the only referee from the German-speaking area for the 2016 European Football Championship . This made him one of seven referees at the 2016 European Championship who were also allowed to lead matches at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Brych was entrusted by UEFA on May 12, 2017 with the management of the Champions League final between Juventus Turin and Real Madrid on June 3, 2017 in Cardiff . He was supported on the sidelines by Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp, while the Serbian Milorad Mažić acted as fourth official . Bastian Dankert and Marco Fritz were nominated as gate judges , Rafael Foltyn completed the team as a substitute assistant.

In November 2017, the IFFHS named Brych World Referee of the Year 2017.

On March 29, 2018, the man from Munich was nominated by FIFA as the only German referee for the 2018 World Cup . After only one appearance in the preliminary round, he was not nominated for another game by FIFA. In the politically explosive preliminary round match between Serbia and Switzerland (1: 2) he did not give a penalty for an alleged foul on the Serbian striker in the Swiss penalty area and was heavily criticized by the Serbian media and representatives of Serbian football after the game. In this context, Mladen Krstajić , the coach of the Serbian national team, said the day after the lost game with a view to the war crimes of the Yugoslav wars : “I would send him to The Hague . So that they make him the process as they made him us ”. For this, Krstajić was fined 5000 Swiss francs.

On July 21, 2018, Brych was named Referee of the Year by the DFB .

Tournaments

Appearances at the 2012 Olympic men's soccer tournament in London

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	July 29, 2012	London	Senegal	Uruguay	2: 0 (2: 0)
Quarter finals	0Aug 4, 2012	Newcastle upon Tyne	Brazil	Honduras	3: 2 (1: 1)

Appearances at the Confederations Cup 2013 in Brazil

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 22, 2013	Belo Horizonte	Japan	Mexico	1: 2 (0: 0)

Brych also served as fourth official in three games.

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 14, 2014	Fortaleza	Uruguay	Costa Rica	1: 3 (1: 0)
Group stage	June 22, 2014	Rio de Janeiro	Belgium	Russia	1: 0 (0: 0)

Appearances at the European Football Championship 2016 in France

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 16, 2016	Lens	England	Wales	2: 1 (0: 1)
Group stage	June 22, 2016	Nice	Sweden	Belgium	0: 1 (0: 0)
Quarter finals	June 30, 2016	Marseille	Poland	Portugal	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 5 i. E.

Used at the 2018 World Cup

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 22, 2018	Kaliningrad	Serbia	Switzerland	1: 2 (1: 0)

Appearances in the UEFA Champions League

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
final	03rd June 2017	Cardiff	Juventus Turin	real Madrid	1: 4 (1: 1)

Fonts

• Felix Brych: Possibilities and limits of community promotion of professional sport from a legal point of view (= series of publications studies on jurisprudence, volume 153). Kovač, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1644-1 (dissertation, University of Regensburg, 2004).

Web links

Commons : Felix Brych  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Usage statistics at weltfussball.de
• Brych's hometown club, SV Am Hart Munich
• Short biography on dfb.de
• Referee statistics from Dr. Felix Brych at kicker online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directorate of the Maximiliansgymnasium (ed.): Photo yearbook Maxgymnasium '95.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Possibilities and limits of community promotion of professional sport from a legal point of view .
3. ^ Bundesliga referee , entry Felix Brych . Website of the Bavarian Football Association (accessed October 4, 2017).
4. ^ Main Sports Department on the pages of the Bavarian Football Association , accessed on November 19, 2011
5. ↑ Appearances as Bundesliga referees, accessed on November 16, 2015
6. ↑ Brych and Hussein are "Arbitrator of the Year" ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de from June 13, 2013, accessed on June 13, 2013
7. ↑ Two German referees at the Olympics. In: transfermarkt.de. April 12, 2012, accessed August 16, 2015 . 
8. ↑ london2012.com: Match report Senegal - Uruguay
9. ↑ FIFA.com: Match Report Brazil - Honduras
10. ↑ Kuipers whistles final of the UEFA Europa League ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Referee appointed for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil. (No longer available online.) In: de.fifa.com. May 13, 2013, archived from the original on April 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 16, 2015 . 
12. ↑ http://sportbild.bild.de/SPORT/bundesliga/2010/08/21/koeln-lautern/rekord-rot-fuer-fc-verteidiger-mohamad-pleite-gegen-fck.html , accessed on August 22 2010
13. ^ Scandalous victory against Hoffenheim: Leverkusen with Phantom goal at the top of the table. In: Spiegel Online . October 18, 2013, accessed August 16, 2015 . 
14. ↑ dfb.de: "Felix Brych is going to the World Cup in Brazil" ( Memento from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ FIFA World Cup 2014 refereeingworld
16. ↑ Felix Brych is going to the World Cup in Brazil ( Memento from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ Who of the 2014 World Cup referees will also be at the 2016 European Championship? In: em2016.net. em2016.net, December 17, 2015, accessed January 5, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Champions League: Felix Brych whistles final. In: de.uefa.com. de.uefa.com, May 12, 2017, accessed May 12, 2017 . 
19. ↑ https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/steinhaus-und-brych-weltschiedsrichter-des-jahres-2017-179197/
20. ↑ ^{a b} Fifa sends German referee Brych home , on welt.de, on July 5, 2018.
21. ↑ Sport1 from July 19, 2018: The game Serbia against Switzerland and an alleged wrong decision was fatal for the world referee
22. ↑ Der Standard of June 23, 2018: Mladen Krstajic causes scandal with war criminals comparison after defeat against Switzerland - Serb trainer: "Would send referees to The Hague"
23. ^ Brych and Steinhaus "Referee of the Year". Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 20, 2018.