Kateryna Monsul

Kateryna Monsul
Kateryna Monsul (2014)
Personal
Surname	Kateryna Monsul
birthday	5th July 1981
place of birth	Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
Games by division
Years	Division	Games
2011– 2016–	Perscha Liha Premjer-Liha
Finals
Youth Olympic Summer Games 2010 UEFA Women's Champions League 2014 Football Women's World Cup 2015
Status: April 2016

Kateryna Volodymyriwna Monsul ( Ukrainian Катерина Володимирівна Монзуль , born July 5, 1981 in Kharkiv ) is a Ukrainian football referee who led the opening game and final of the 2015 Women's World Cup . In 2015 she was elected world referee .

Career

Monsul has been in charge of international matches since 2004 and was the first time referee in an international match on September 24, 2005 when Finland played against Poland in qualifying for the 2007 World Cup . She was then not nominated for the World Cup itself and at the following World Cup she was only used as the fourth official . Her first major tournament was the 2009 European Women's Football Championship in Finland , where she headed the group games France against Germany and Sweden against England . Further international matches followed and she was nominated for the 2013 European Championship in Sweden , the 2014 U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada and the 2015 World Cup in Canada, where she was in charge of the opening match between hosts Canada and the People's Republic China and the finals have reached their peak so far. In the opening game, she gave a controversial penalty in stoppage time when the score was 0-0 for the hosts, which Christine Sinclair converted to a 1-0 win for the Canadians. In addition, she was used in several tournaments in the junior area. At club level, she directs games in the Perscha Liha , the second highest Ukrainian men's league, as well as games in the UEFA Women's Champions League , including the 2014 final between Tyresö FF and VfL Wolfsburg . Since April 2016 she has also been directing the Premjer-Liha , the highest league in Ukrainian men's football. On May 2, 2016, she was nominated for her first Olympic football tournament.

In October 2017, she was one of seven referees on the supporting team of referees at the U-17 World Cup in 2017 , which was the first time women were used in a men's World Cup.

On December 3, 2018, she was nominated for the 2019 Women's World Cup .

International matches of the German team

European Championship group match, August 27, 2009 in Tampere , Finland
Germany	-	France	5: 1 (3: 0)
European Championship qualifying game, November 24, 2011, in Motril , Spain
Germany	-	Spain	2: 2 (2: 0)
World Cup qualification game, September 17, 2014, in Heidenheim an der Brenz
Germany	-	Ireland	2: 0 (2: 0)
OS quarter-finals, August 12, 2016, in Salvador , Brazil
Germany	-	China	1: 0 (0: 0)
EM group match , July 21, 2017, in Tilburg , Netherlands
Germany	-	Italy	2: 1 (1: 1)
World Cup qualification game, April 7, 2018, in Halle
Germany	-	Czech Republic	4: 0 (2: 0)
February 28, 2009 in Laval , France
Germany	-	France	1: 0 (1: 0)
World Cup group match , June 12, 2019, in Valenciennes , France
Germany	-	Spain	1: 0 (1: 0)

Bets in tournaments

Appearances at the European Championship 2009 in Finland

Group B, August 27, 2009 in Tampere
Germany	-	France	5: 1 (3: 0)
Group C, August 31, 2009, 5:30 p.m. in Turku
Sweden	-	England	1: 1 (1: 1)

Appearances at the junior women's tournament of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore

Group A, August 15, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Iran	-	Papua New Guinea	1: 0 (0: 0)
Final, August 24, 2010, 8:45 p.m.
Chile	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 1 (1: 0) 5: 3 iE

Appearances at the U-17 World Cup 2012 in Azerbaijan

Group A, September 22, 2012, 5:00 p.m. in Baku
Nigeria	-	Canada	1: 1 (0: 0)
Group C, September 26, 2012, 5:00 p.m. in Baku
Mexico	-	Brazil	0: 1 (0: 0)
Quarter-finals, October 5, 2012, 8:00 p.m. in Baku
Japan	-	Ghana	0: 1 (0: 0)

Appearances at the 2013 European Championships in Sweden

Group D, July 12, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Linköping
England	-	Spain	2: 3 (1: 1)
Group C, July 16, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Denmark	-	Finland	1: 0 (1: 0)
Semi-finals, July 25, 2013, 8.30 p.m. in Norrköping
Norway	-	Denmark	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0), 4: 2 i. E.

Appearances at the U-17 World Cup 2014 in Costa Rica

Group D, March 17, 2014, 5:00 p.m. in Alajuela
People's Republic of China	-	Nigeria	1: 2 (0: 1)
Group B, March 22, 2014, 5:00 p.m. in Tibás
Canada	-	Ghana	2: 1 (2: 0)

Appearances at the U-20 World Cup 2014 in Canada

Group D, August 6, 2014, 8:00 p.m. in Montréal
New Zealand	-	Paraguay	2: 0 (2: 0)
Group A, Aug 13, 2014, 8:00 p.m. in Toronto
South Korea	-	Mexico	2: 1 (1: 0)

Appearances at the 2015 World Cup in Canada

Opening game, June 6, 2015, 4:00 p.m. in Edmonton
Canada	-	People's Republic of China	1: 0 (0: 0)
Group game, June 16, 2015, 4:00 p.m. in Vancouver
Nigeria	-	United States	0: 1 (0: 1)
Quarter-finals on June 27, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in Edmonton
Australia	-	Japan	0: 1 (0: 0)
Final, July 5, 2015, 4:00 p.m. in Vancouver
United States	-	Japan	5: 2 (4: 1)

Appearances in the European qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games

March 2, 2016, 7:30 p.m. in The Hague
Switzerland	-	Netherlands	3: 4 (1: 1)
March 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m. in Rotterdam
Netherlands	-	Sweden	1: 1 (1: 1)

Appearances at the 2016 Olympic Games

August 3, 2016, 7:00 p.m. in Belo Horizonte
United States	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)
August 12, 2016, 9:00 p.m. in Salvador
People's Republic of China	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 0)

Appearances at the 2017 European Women's Football Championship

July 16, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Doetinchem
Denmark	-	Belgium	1: 0 (1: 0)
July 21, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Tilburg
Germany	-	Italy	2: 1 (1: 1)
July 27, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Tilburg
Portugal	-	England	1: 2 (1: 1)
Semi-finals, August 3, 2017, 6:00 p.m. in Breda
Denmark	-	Austria	0: 0 a.d., 3: 0 i. E.

Appearances at the U-20 World Cup 2018 in France

Group A, August 5, 2018, 7:30 p.m. in Vannes
France	-	Ghana	4: 1 (3: 0)
Group C, August 9, 2018, 4.30 p.m. in Concarneau
Spain	-	Japan	1: 0 (1: 0)

Appearances at the 2019 World Cup in France

Group B, June 12, 2019, in Valenciennes
Germany	-	Spain	1: 0 (1: 0)
Group E, June 20, 2019 in Montpellier
Cameroon	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 0)
Quarter-finals, June 28, 2019 in Paris
France	-	United States	1: 2 (0: 1)

Awards

• IFFHS Referee of the Year 2015

Web links

Commons : Kateryna Monsul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• FIFA info
• Video portrait
• Appearances at weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uefa.com: "Referees nominated for World Cup"
2. ↑ bbc.com: "Women's World Cup 2015: Controversial penalty gives Canada win"
3. ↑ youtube.com: "HIGHLIGHTS: Canada v. China PR - FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 "
4. ↑ uefa.com: "Monzul to whistle women's final in Lisbon"
5. ^ Premyer League 2015/2016 - Appearances as referee
6. ↑ fifa.com: "Appointments of Referees and Assistant Referees"
7. ↑ fifa.com: Match officials for FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 appointed
8. ↑ fifa.com: Line-up of match officials for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 ™
9. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 List of match officials
10. ↑ Iran - Papua New Guinea 1: 0 (0: 0)
11. ↑ Chile - Equatorial Guinea 1: 1 (1: 0) 5: 3 i. E.
12. ↑ "THE WORLD's BEST WOMAN REFEREE 2015" on iffhs.de