Jenny Palmqvist

Jenny Palmqvist

Jenny Palmqvist (born November 2, 1969 ) is a former Swedish football referee .

Career

Jenny Palmqvist was born in South Korea , but grew up as the daughter of adoptive parents in Falköping, Sweden . At the beginning of her career she worked as a sales manager for an interior design company in Alingsås . On January 1, 2009 she became an employee of the Swedish Football Association and a professional referee. In 2012 she started working as a key account manager , from then on she was a professional referee on a part-time basis.

She directed her first games in 1996. A year later she was already whistling in Swedish Division 1 , the second division of Swedish women's football. In the Damallsvenskan , the first division, it was used from 1999. By the end of her career in 2014, she had 188 missions there. At the same time, she occasionally whistled men's games in the Swedish third division.

In 2002, Jenny Palmqvist received the FIFA certificate. She experienced a first career highlight in 2004 at the women's soccer tournament at the Olympic Games in Athens . Here she was entrusted with the final between the USA and Brazil . Twenty minutes before the regular end of the game, she injured her right foot. When after 90 minutes and an interim result of 1: 1 an extension was necessary, her colleague Dianne Ferreira-James took over the management of the game.

Until 2013, Jenny Palmqvist was invited to all major tournaments. In 2007 and 2011 she was a member of the FIFA referees' team at the World Cups in China and Germany. In 2009 and 2013 she took part in the European Championships in Finland and Sweden. In 2008 she was nominated for the women's soccer tournament at the Beijing Olympic Games, and in 2012 she was invited to the women's Olympic soccer tournament in London . At that time she was the only referee with three Olympic appearances alongside Kari Seitz . In 2009 she directed one of the two UEFA Cup finals between Russian champions Zvezda Perm and FCR 2001 Duisburg . In 2012, she whistled the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League between Olympique Lyon and 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Munich Olympic Stadium .

In addition, the associations often called Palmqvist for friendship and qualification matches, including on April 22, 2009 for the test match between Germany and Brazil in Frankfurt am Main , which temporarily set a new European audience record in women's football with 44,825 spectators. In October 2012, when she whistled for the European Championship qualifier between Austria and Russia , she played her 100th international game.

Jenny Palmqvist ended her career in autumn 2014. The last game she whistled was the friendly between Germany and France (0-2) in Offenbach on October 25, 2014.

Tournaments

• 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens (2 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	Aug 11, 2004	Athens	Greece	United States	0: 3 (0: 2)
final	Aug 26, 2004	Athens	United States	Brazil	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)

• Football World Cup 2007 in the PR China (2 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	Sep 14 2007	Shanghai	England	Germany	0-0
Quarter finals	22 Sep 2007	Tianjin	United States	England	3: 0 (0: 0)

• Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Beijing (2 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	0Aug 9, 2008	Shenyang	Nigeria	Germany	0: 1 (0: 0)
Quarter finals	Aug 15, 2008	Shanghai	United States	Canada	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1)

• European Women's Football Championship 2009 in Finland (3 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	Aug 26, 2009	Helsinki	Netherlands	Finland	1: 2 (1: 1)
Group stage	29 Aug 2009	Lahti	Denmark	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 0)
Quarter finals	04th Sep 2009	Lahti	Germany	Italy	2: 1 (1: 0)

• Soccer World Cup 2011 in Germany (3 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 29, 2011	Mönchengladbach	Brazil	Australia	1: 0 (0: 0)
Group stage	0July 5, 2011	Sinsheim	New Zealand	Mexico	2: 2 (0: 2)
Quarter finals	0July 9, 2011	Leverkusen	England	France	3: 4 i. E. (1: 1, 0: 0)

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London (3 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	July 25, 2012	Cardiff	Cameroon	Brazil	0: 5 (0: 2)
Group stage	July 31, 2012	Manchester	United States	North Korea	1: 0 (1: 0)
Bronze game	0Aug 9, 2012	Coventry	Canada	France	1: 0 (1: 0)

• European Football Championship for Women 2013 in Sweden (2 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	12th of July 2013	Norrkoping	France	Russia	3: 1 (2: 0)
Group stage	18th July 2013	Norrkoping	Russia	Spain	1: 1 (1: 1)

Awards

In 2005, 2010 and 2011 she was named Referee of the Year in her home country . The International Federation of Football History & Statistics named Jenny Palmqvist World Referee of the Year in 2012 .

Web links

• Jenny Palmqvist in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maratontabellen fogis.se, accessed on January 13, 2017
2. ↑ Germany's women from the most beautiful side Sächsische Zeitung, April 23, 2009
3. ↑ ^{a b} Palmqvist efter sin 100: e internationella match fogis.se, 23 October 2012
4. ↑ Fotbollsdomaren Jenny Palmqvist har dömt sin sista match , sverigesradio.se, October 27, 2014
5. ↑ Former results IFFHS, accessed July 6, 2014