Katrin Rafalski

Katrin Rafalski 2014

Katrin Rafalski (born February 4, 1982 ) is a German soccer referee . She whistles for the TSV Besse club .

Career

Rafalski has been a referee since 1996. At first she played soccer herself and was a goalkeeper and midfielder at SG Gilsa / Jesberg . The highest division as a player was the Hessenliga. After voluntarily quitting her playing career due to a broken shoulder , her priorities were refereeing. In 2006 she was in charge of games in the second women's division , and a year later she made the leap into the women's division . In 2010 it made it onto the FIFA list.

At the women's DFB Cup final in 2009 she was appointed assistant referee . Since January 1, 2010, she has been the FIFA assistant referee. Rafalski was used as such for the U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany in a preliminary round match and a quarter-final match. On April 15, 2011, she was nominated as assistant for the women's World Cup, which will take place in Germany in summer 2011, together with Marina Wozniak from Herne (also assistant) and the referee Bibiana Steinhaus . At the women's soccer competitions at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games , she was also Bibiana Steinhaus’s assistant referee together with Marina Wozniak. There she supported Steinhaus among other things in the final.

Katrin Rafalski shows 3 minutes of injury time

Rafalski was used by the DFB on April 23, 2013 for the final of the DFB Cup between VfL Wolfsburg and 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam as referee in Cologne.

In May 2014, she was nominated as assistant referee for the women's U-20 World Cup in August 2014 . In March 2015 she was nominated as assistant referee for the 2015 World Cup . There she and her colleague Marina Wozniak assisted referee Bibiana Steinhaus in the host Canada's game against New Zealand on June 11th , which had to be interrupted for about 30 minutes after four minutes due to a storm. In addition, together with Wozniak, she was nominated as assistant to Hungarian Katalin Kulcsár for the game between China and New Zealand on June 15.

In the men's division, Rafalski whistles in the 3rd division and has been an assistant in the 2nd Bundesliga since 2016, making it the fourth woman after Gertrud Regus , Bibiana Steinhaus and Nicole Schumacher to be active as a referee in the two federal leagues.

On December 3, 2018, she was nominated as assistant referee for the 2019 Women's World Cup , where she was used as assistant to Bibiana Steinhaus in the match between France and Norway.