List of referee assignments at the 2018 World Cup

The list of referee assignments at the 2018 World Cup includes all referees who were appointed to the 2018 World Cup from June 14 to July 15, 2018 in Russia .

General

The Argentine referee Néstor Pitana chaired the opening game and final of the 2018 World Cup.

On March 29, 2018, FIFA nominated 36  referees and 63  assistant referees . On April 30th, FIFA nominated 13 referees who will be used exclusively as video assistants . In addition, some referees and assistant referees who are deployed in the stadium are also used as video assistants.

The referee Fahad Al-Mirdasi (Saudi Arabia) was suspended for life at the end of May 2018 for demanding a bribe from the Ittihad president before the final of the Saudi Arabian King Cup between Ittihad FC and Al-Faisaly FC . His assistant referees Mohammed Al-Abakry and Abdulah Al-Shalwai were also withdrawn from the tournament. No new referee was nominated. The FIFA Referees Committee instead nominated two assistant referees to complete the referee team of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed (United Arab Emirates) and Ryūji Satō (Japan): Hasan Almahri (United Arab Emirates) and Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan).

On June 7, 2018, it became known that the Kenyan assistant referee Marwa Range was also involved in allegations of bribery. This is said to have accepted a gift of around $ 600. He was then removed from the list of linesmen without an official statement from FIFA. The participation of his other team, consisting of the Gambian referee Bakary Gassama and the Burundian assistant Jean-Claude Birumushahu , was discussed afterwards. No assistant referee was nominated to replace Marwa Range.

The 2018 World Cup was run by a team of 35 referees and 62 assistant referees. A total of 30 referee teams were used to lead the 64 games. Of these, there were 21 referee teams from one country, all other teams were formed from different nations; three of these teams were made up of three different nations. It is noteworthy that the assistant referee Juan Zumba (El Salvador) was used on two different referee teams. In addition, there are 5 support referee teams who were used exclusively as fourth official or fifth official . The Ethiopian referee or fourth official Bamlak Weyesa was called up to the games with various assistant referees.

The average age of all main referees was 40.29 years, with the Serb Milorad Mažić being the oldest referee at 45 and the Mexican César Ramos being the youngest referee at 34.

The Argentine Néstor Pitana directed both the opening game and the final, he also had the most game directors with five appearances.

List of referees

Referee teams

Association	referee	country	birthday	Assistant 1	Assistant 2
AFC	Ravshan Ermatov (‡)	Uzbekistan	August 9, 1977	Abdukhamidullo Rasulov	Jahongir Saidov
	Alireza Faghani	Iran	March 21, 1978	Mohammadreza Mansouri	Reza Sokhandan
	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	United Arab Emirates	2nd December 1978	Mohamed Alhammadi	Hasan Almahri
	Ryūji Satō	Japan	April 16, 1977	Toru Sagara (1)
	Nawaf Shukralla	Bahrain	October 13, 1976	Yaser Tulefat	Taleb Al-Marri
CAF	Mehdi Abid Charef	Algeria	4th December 1980	Anouar Hmila (2)
	Malang Diedhiou	Senegal	April 30, 1973	Djibril Camara	El Hadji Samba
	Bakary Gassama	Gambia	February 10, 1979	Jean-Claude Birumushahu	Abdelhak Etchiali
	Gehad Grisha	Egypt	February 29, 1976	Redouane Achik	Waleed Ahmed
	Janny Sikazwe	Zambia	May 26, 1979	Jerson Dos Santos	Zakhele Siwela
	Bamlak Weyesa	Ethiopia	December 30, 1980
CONCACAF	Joel Aguilar	El Salvador	2nd July 1975	Juan Zumba (×)	Juan Mora
	Mark Geiger	United States	August 25, 1974	Frank Anderson	Joe Fletcher
	Jair Marrufo	United States	17th June 1977	Corey Rockwell	Juan Zumba (×)
	Ricardo Montero	Costa Rica	March 6, 1986	Hiroshi Yamauchi (3)
	John Pitti	Panama	2nd August 1978	Gabriel Victoria (4)
	César Ramos	Mexico	December 15, 1983	Miguel Hernández	Marvin Torrentera
CONMEBOL	Julio Bascuñán	Chile	June 11, 1978	Carlos Astroza	Christian Schiemann
	Enrique Cáceres	Paraguay	March 20, 1974	Eduardo Cardozo	Juan Zorrilla
	Andrés Cunha	Uruguay	September 8, 1976	Mauricio Espinosa	Nicolas Taran
	Néstor Pitana	Argentina	17th June 1975	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti
	Sandro Ricci	Brazil	19th November 1974	Emerson de Carvalho	Marcelo van Gasse
	Wilmar Roldán	Colombia	January 24, 1980	Cristian de la Cruz	Alexander Guzman
OFC	Matthew Conger	New Zealand	October 11, 1978	Simon Lount	Tevita Makasini
	Norbert Hauata	Tahiti	June 6, 1979	Bertrand Brial (5)
UEFA	Felix Brych	Germany	3rd August 1975	Stefan Lupp	Mark Borsch
	Cüneyt Çakır	Turkey	November 23, 1976	Bahattin Duran	Tarık Ongun
	Sergei Karasev	Russia	June 12, 1979	Anton Ivanovich Averyanov	Tikhon Vladimirovich Kalugin
	Bjorn Kuipers	Netherlands	March 28, 1973	Sander van Roekel	Erwin Zeinstra
	Szymon Marciniak	Poland	7th January 1981	Tomasz Listkiewicz	Paweł Sokolnicki
	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Spain	March 12, 1977	Pau Cebrián Devís	Roberto Díaz Pérez
	Milorad Mažić	Serbia	March 23, 1973	Milovan Ristić	Dalibor Đurđević
	Gianluca Rocchi	Italy	August 25, 1973	Elenito Di Liberatore	Mauro Tonolini
	Damir Skomina	Slovenia	5th August 1976	Jure Praprotnik	Robert Vukan
	Clement Turpin	France	May 16, 1982	Nicolas Danos	Cyril Gringore
Average age (at the beginning of the World Cup)		-	40.29 years	-	-

^(‡) Record referee with nine hosted World Cup games (before the 2018 World Cup: five at the 2010 World Cup, four at the 2014 World Cup)

^(×) Juan Zumba served as assistant referee for two different referees

⁽¹⁾Toru Sagara was only used as the fifth official (while his colleague Ryūji Satō was used as the fourth official in the same games)

⁽²⁾Anouar Hmila was only used as the fifth official (while his colleague Mehdi Abid Charef was used as the fourth official in the same games)

⁽³⁾Hiroshi Yamauchi was only used as the fifth official (while his colleague Ricardo Montero was used as the fourth official in the same games)

⁽⁴⁾Gabriel Victoria was only used as the fifth official (while his colleague John Pitti was used as the fourth official in the same games)

⁽⁵⁾Bertrand Brial was only used as the fifth official (while his colleague Norbert Hauata was used as the fourth official in the same games)

Video Assistant (VAR)

Association	referee	country
AFC	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Qatar
CONMEBOL	Wilton Sampaio	Brazil
	Gery Vargas	Bolivia
	Mauro Vigliano	Argentina
UEFA	Bastian Dankert	Germany
	Artur Dias	Portugal
	Paweł Gil	Poland
	Massimiliano Irrati	Italy
	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Portugal
	Danny Makkelie	Netherlands
	Daniele Orsato	Italy
	Paolo Valeri	Italy
	Felix Zwayer	Germany

List of bets by game

Legend

# → indicates the number of the respective batch Partie → indicates the two teams that played the game and the final score of the game after regular time, if necessary, after the extension and in the penalty shootout Referee → First and last name of the referee who presided over the game Assistant referees → First and last name of the assistant referees who supported the referee on the sidelines SRA1 → assistant referee 1, first and last name of the assistant referee SRA2 → assistant referee 2, first and last name of the assistant referee → pronounced warnings by means of a yellow card ; if the same player receives a second yellow card (corresponds to the yellow-red card), the first yellow card is not counted → Pronounced field references using a yellow-red card → pronounced field references using a red card Elfm. → in the regular season or in the extension imposed penalties

Fourth official → full name of the arbitrator, who as a fourth official was used Video assistant team → First and last name of the video assistant team, who support the referee with video evidence and take decisions if necessary VAR → First and last name of the video referee who communicates with the referee in the stadium, leads the video assistant team, reviews the incidents and observes the game AVAR1 → First and last name of the first video assistant who supports the video referee in his decisions and observations AVAR2 → full name of the second video assistant who only for the assessment of offside situations is responsible AVAR3 → first and last name of the third video assistant who forwards the information from AVAR2 to the video referee and supports the video referee in further incidents

game		referee	Assistant referees		cards			Elfm.	Fourth official	Video assistant team
#	Lot		SRA1	SRA2						VAR	AVAR1	AVAR2	AVAR3
Group stage
1	5-0	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti	2	0	0	0	Sandro Ricci	Massimiliano Irrati	Mauro Vigliano	Carlos Astroza	Daniele Orsato
2	0: 1	Bjorn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel	Erwin Zeinstra	2	0	0	0	Milorad Mažić	Danny Makkelie	Paweł Gil	Cyril Gringore	Clement Turpin
3	0: 1	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin Duran	Tarık Ongun	4th	0	0	0	Sergei Karasev	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Mark Borsch	Jair Marrufo
4th	3: 3	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore	Mauro Tonolini	2	0	0	1	Ryūji Satō	Massimiliano Irrati	Paolo Valeri	Carlos Astroza	Daniele Orsato
5	2: 1	Andrés Cunha	Nicolas Taran	Mauricio Espinosa	4th	0	0	2	Julio Bascuñán	Mauro Vigliano	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Hernán Maidana	Jair Marrufo
6th	1: 1	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Sokolnicki	Tomasz Listkiewicz	0	0	0	1	Wilmar Roldán	Mark Geiger	Paweł Gil	Joe Fletcher	Gery Vargas
7th	0: 1	Bakary Gassama	Jean-Claude Birumushahu	Abdelhak Etchiali	3	0	0	1	Mehdi Abid Charef	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Mark Borsch	Danny Makkelie
8th	2-0	Sandro Ricci	Emerson de Carvalho	Marcelo van Gasse	3	0	0	1	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Daniele Orsato	Wilton Sampaio	Carlos Astroza	Artur Dias
9	0: 1	Malang Diedhiou	Djibril Camara	El Hadji Samba	4th	0	0	0	Bamlak Weyesa	Clement Turpin	Paweł Gil	Cyril Gringore	Artur Dias
12	0: 1	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan	Mohammadreza Mansouri	4th	0	0	0	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	Massimiliano Irrati	Wilton Sampaio	Carlos Astroza	Mark Geiger
11	1: 1	César Ramos	Marvin Torrentera	Miguel Hernández	4th	0	0	0	John Pitti	Paolo Valeri	Mauro Vigliano	Elenito Di Liberatore	Gianluca Rocchi
12	1-0	Joel Aguilar	Juan Zumba	Juan Mora	3	0	0	1	Norbert Hauata	Mauro Vigliano	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Taleb Al-Marri	Daniele Orsato
13	3-0	Janny Sikazwe	Jerson Dos Santos	Zakhele Siwela	8th	0	0	0	Ryūji Satō	Bastian Dankert	Felix Zwayer	Sander van Roekel	Danny Makkelie
14th	1: 2	Wilmar Roldán	Alexander Guzman	Cristian de la Cruz	1	0	0	1	Ricardo Montero	Sandro Ricci	Gery Vargas	Emerson de Carvalho	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins
15th	1: 2	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik	Robert Vukan	3	0	1	1	Mehdi Abid Charef	Danny Makkelie	Bastian Dankert	Sander van Roekel	Felix Zwayer
16	1: 2	Nawaf Shukralla	Yaser Tulefat	Taleb Al-Marri	3	0	0	0	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Artur Dias	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Hernán Maidana	Wilton Sampaio
17th	3: 1	Enrique Cáceres	Eduardo Cardozo	Juan Zorrilla	2	0	0	1	Cüneyt Çakır	Massimiliano Irrati	Mauro Vigliano	Carlos Astroza	Szymon Marciniak
18th	1-0	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher	Frank Anderson	2	0	0	0	Sergei Karasev	Felix Zwayer	Jair Marrufo	Simon Lount	Bastian Dankert
19th	1-0	Clement Turpin	Nicolas Danos	Cyril Gringore	0	0	0	0	John Pitti	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Gil	Paweł Sokolnicki	Daniele Orsato
20th	0: 1	Andrés Cunha	Nicolas Taran	Mauricio Espinosa	2	0	0	0	Julio Bascuñán	Mauro Vigliano	Wilton Sampaio	Alexander Guzman	Massimiliano Irrati
21st	1: 1	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Pau Cebrián Devís	Roberto Díaz Pérez	2	0	0	1	Bamlak Weyesa	Mark Geiger	Jair Marrufo	Joe Fletcher	Paolo Valeri
22nd	1-0	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	Mohamed Alhammadi	Hasan Almahri	4th	0	0	0	Janny Sikazwe	Daniele Orsato	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Taleb Al-Marri	Szymon Marciniak
23	0: 3	Ravshan Ermatov	Abdukhamidullo Rasulov	Jahongir Saidov	7th	0	0	0	Norbert Hauata	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Corey Rockwell	Danny Makkelie
24	2-0	Bjorn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel	Erwin Zeinstra	3	0	0	0	Damir Skomina	Danny Makkelie	Artur Dias	Joe Fletcher	Mark Geiger
25th	2-0	Matthew Conger	Simon Lount	Tevita Makasini	1	0	0	1	Ricardo Montero	Massimiliano Irrati	Paweł Gil	Elenito Di Liberatore	Gianluca Rocchi
26th	1: 2	Felix Brych	Mark Borsch	Stefan Lupp	5	0	0	0	Nawaf Shukralla	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Carlos Astroza	Clement Turpin
27	5: 2	Jair Marrufo	Corey Rockwell	Juan Zumba	1	0	0	1	Andrés Cunha	Mark Geiger	Bastian Dankert	Joe Fletcher	Felix Zwayer
28	1: 2	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić	Dalibor Đurđević	4th	0	0	1	John Pitti	Daniele Orsato	Artur Dias	Carlos Astroza	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins
29	2: 1	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Sokolnicki	Tomasz Listkiewicz	2	1	0	0	Ryūji Satō	Clement Turpin	Paweł Gil	Cyril Gringore	Paolo Valeri
30th	6: 1	Gehad Grisha	Redouane Achik	Waleed Ahmed	4th	0	0	2	Norbert Hauata	Danny Makkelie	Paweł Gil	Sander van Roekel	Mark Geiger
31	2: 2	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore	Mauro Tonolini	5	0	0	0	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Massimiliano Irrati	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Hernán Maidana	Paolo Valeri
32	0: 3	César Ramos	Marvin Torrentera	Miguel Hernández	2	0	0	0	Julio Bascuñán	Mauro Vigliano	Gery Vargas	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Daniele Orsato
33	3-0	Malang Diedhiou	Djibril Camara	El Hadji Samba	2	1	0	0	Bamlak Weyesa	Clement Turpin	Paweł Gil	Cyril Gringore	Daniele Orsato
34	2: 1	Wilmar Roldán	Alexander Guzman	Cristian de la Cruz	2	0	0	2	Ricardo Montero	Artur Dias	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Carlos Astroza	Wilton Sampaio
35	1: 1	Enrique Cáceres	Eduardo Cardozo	Juan Zorrilla	6th	0	0	2	Mehdi Abid Charef	Massimiliano Irrati	Gery Vargas	Hernán Maidana	Paolo Valeri
36	2: 2	Ravshan Ermatov	Abdukhamidullo Rasulov	Jahongir Saidov	6th	0	0	0	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Mark Borsch	Danny Makkelie
37	0-0	Sandro Ricci	Emerson de Carvalho	Marcelo van Gasse	1	0	0	0	Gianluca Rocchi	Mauro Vigliano	Wilton Sampaio	Carlos Astroza	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins
38	0: 2	Sergei Karasev	Anton Ivanovich Averyanov	Tikhon Vladimirovich Kalugin	6th	0	0	0	Ryūji Satō	Danny Makkelie	Jair Marrufo	Mark Borsch	Bastian Dankert
39	1: 2	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin Duran	Tarık Ongun	5	0	0	1	Bjorn Kuipers	Daniele Orsato	Paweł Gil	Paweł Sokolnicki	Massimiliano Irrati
40	1: 2	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Pau Cebrián Devís	Roberto Díaz Pérez	5	0	0	1	John Pitti	Paolo Valeri	Gery Vargas	Elenito Di Liberatore	Felix Zwayer
41	2-0	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher	Frank Anderson	4th	0	0	0	Julio Bascuñán	Danny Makkelie	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Corey Rockwell	Artur Dias
42	0: 3	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti	5	0	0	1	Andrés Cunha	Mauro Vigliano	Gery Vargas	Carlos Astroza	Wilton Sampaio
43	0: 2	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan	Mohammadreza Mansouri	3	0	0	0	Jair Marrufo	Massimiliano Irrati	Paweł Gil	Paweł Sokolnicki	Paolo Valeri
44	2: 2	Clement Turpin	Nicolas Danos	Cyril Gringore	6th	0	0	1	Norbert Hauata	Felix Zwayer	Bastian Dankert	Mark Borsch	Szymon Marciniak
45	0: 1	Janny Sikazwe	Jerson Dos Santos	Zakhele Siwela	1	0	0	0	Ricardo Montero	Daniele Orsato	Gery Vargas	Carlos Astroza	Paolo Valeri
46	0: 1	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić	Dalibor Đurđević	2	0	0	0	Bamlak Weyesa	Danny Makkelie	Bastian Dankert	Elenito Di Liberatore	Gianluca Rocchi
47	0: 1	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik	Robert Vukan	2	0	0	0	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	Artur Dias	Paweł Gil	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Mauro Vigliano
48	1: 2	Nawaf Shukralla	Yaser Tulefat	Taleb Al-Marri	6th	0	0	0	Mehdi Abid Charef	Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Marvin Torrentera	Sandro Ricci
Round of 16
49	4: 3	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan	Mohammadreza Mansouri	8th	0	0	1	Julio Bascuñán	Massimiliano Irrati	Paweł Gil	Carlos Astroza	Paolo Valeri
50	2: 1	César Ramos	Marvin Torrentera	Miguel Hernández	1	0	0	0	Jair Marrufo	Mark Geiger	Bastian Dankert	Joe Fletcher	Danny Makkelie
51	1: 1 3: 4 i. E.	Bjorn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel	Erwin Zeinstra	3	0	0	1	Clement Turpin	Danny Makkelie	Paweł Gil	Mark Borsch	Felix Zwayer
52	1: 1 3: 2 i. E.	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti	1	0	0	1	Enrique Cáceres	Mauro Vigliano	Gery Vargas	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Daniele Orsato
53	2-0	Gianluca Rocchi	Elenito Di Liberatore	Mauro Tonolini	6th	0	0	0	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Massimiliano Irrati	Paweł Gil	Carlos Astroza	Daniele Orsato
54	3: 2	Malang Diedhiou	Djibril Camara	El Hadji Samba	1	0	0	0	Bakary Gassama	Felix Zwayer	Clement Turpin	Mark Borsch	Danny Makkelie
55	1-0	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik	Robert Vukan	3	0	1	0	Nawaf Shukralla	Daniele Orsato	Bastian Dankert	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Massimiliano Irrati
56	1: 1 3: 4 i. E.	Mark Geiger	Joe Fletcher	Frank Anderson	8th	0	0	1	Matthew Conger	Danny Makkelie	Paweł Gil	Carlos Astroza	Mauro Vigliano
Quarter finals
57	0: 2	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti	4th	0	0	0	Alireza Faghani	Massimiliano Irrati	Mauro Vigliano	Carlos Astroza	Paolo Valeri
58	1: 2	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić	Dalibor Đurđević	4th	0	0	0	Jair Marrufo	Daniele Orsato	Paweł Gil	Mark Borsch	Felix Zwayer
59	0: 2	Bjorn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel	Erwin Zeinstra	3	0	0	0	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Danny Makkelie	Bastian Dankert	Carlos Astroza	Felix Zwayer
60	2: 2 3: 4 i. E.	Sandro Ricci	Emerson de Carvalho	Marcelo van Gasse	5	0	0	0	Janny Sikazwe	Massimiliano Irrati	Wilton Sampaio	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Paolo Valeri
Semifinals
61	1-0	Andrés Cunha	Nicolas Taran	Mauricio Espinosa	5	0	0	0	César Ramos	Massimiliano Irrati	Mauro Vigliano	Roberto Díaz Pérez	Paolo Valeri
62	2: 1 i. V.	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin Duran	Tarık Ongun	3	0	0	0	Bjorn Kuipers	Danny Makkelie	Bastian Dankert	Carlos Astroza	Felix Zwayer
3rd place match
63	2-0	Alireza Faghani	Reza Sokhandan	Mohammadreza Mansouri	3	0	0	0	Malang Diedhiou	Mark Geiger	Bastian Dankert	Joe Fletcher	Paolo Valeri
final
64	4: 2	Néstor Pitana	Hernán Maidana	Juan Pablo Belatti	3	0	0	1	Bjorn Kuipers	Massimiliano Irrati	Mauro Vigliano	Carlos Astroza	Danny Makkelie

Source: FIFA match reports

Performance data of the referees used

An overview of the performance data of the referees used who directed the games at the World Cup.

referee	nationality	Number of game directors	Number as fourth official	Number as video assistant	Total stakes				Elfm.	annotation
Néstor Pitana	Argentina	5	0	0	5	15th	0	0	3	Opening game and final
Bjorn Kuipers	Netherlands	4th	3	0	7th	11	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Alireza Faghani	Iran	4th	1	0	5	18th	0	0	1	3rd place match
Andrés Cunha	Uruguay	3	2	0	5	11	0	0	2	remained in the tournament until the final
Gianluca Rocchi	Italy	3	1	3	7th	13	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Sandro Ricci	Brazil	3	1	2	6th	9	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Cüneyt Çakır	Turkey	3	1	0	4th	12	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Damir Skomina	Slovenia	3	1	0	4th	8th	0	2	1	eliminated after the quarter-finals
Milorad Mažić	Serbia	3	1	0	4th	10	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Malang Diedhiou	Senegal	3	1	0	4th	7th	1	0	0	remained in the tournament until the final
César Ramos	Mexico	3	1	0	4th	7th	0	0	0	remained in the tournament until the final
Mark Geiger	United States	3	0	8th	11	14th	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Spain	2	3	0	5	7th	0	0	2	eliminated after the quarter-finals
Nawaf Shukralla	Bahrain	2	2	0	4th	9	0	0	0	eliminated after the quarter-finals
Janny Sikazwe	Zambia	2	2	0	4th	9	0	0	0	eliminated after the quarter-finals
Clement Turpin	France	2	1	6th	9	6th	0	0	1	eliminated after the round of 16
Enrique Cáceres	Paraguay	2	1	0	3	8th	0	0	3	eliminated after the round of 16
Wilmar Roldán	Colombia	2	1	0	3	3	0	0	3	eliminated after the round of 16
Szymon Marciniak	Poland	2	0	4th	6th	2	1	0	1	eliminated after the round of 16
Ravshan Ermatov	Uzbekistan	2	0	0	2	13	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Jair Marrufo	United States	1	3	5	9	1	0	0	1	eliminated after the quarter-finals
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed	United Arab Emirates	1	3	0	4th	4th	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Sergei Karasev	Russia	1	2	0	3	6th	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Bakary Gassama	Gambia	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	eliminated after the round of 16
Matthew Conger	New Zealand	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	remained in the tournament until the final
Felix Brych	Germany	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Gehad Grisha	Egypt	1	0	0	1	4th	0	0	2	eliminated after the round of 16
Joel Aguilar	El Salvador	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	eliminated after the round of 16
Julio Bascuñán	Chile	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Mehdi Abid Charef	Algeria	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Norbert Hauata	Tahiti	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Ricardo Montero	Costa Rica	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
John Pitti	Panama	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Ryūji Satō	Japan	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
Bamlak Weyesa	Ethiopia	0	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	eliminated after the round of 16
total		64	62	28	154	219	2	2	29	-
Average per game		-	-	-	-	3.42	0.03	0.03	0.45	-

Sorting order: 1. Number of game directors, 2. Number as fourth official templates, 3. Number as video assistant, 4. Number of cards (according to fair play points), 5. Alphabetical order

Assignments as a video assistant

In addition to the assignments of the 13 referees who are used exclusively as video assistants (marked in green), the assistant referees who were deployed as video assistants are also listed (referees see table above).

referee	nationality	Calls					Remarks
		VAR	AVAR1	AVAR2	AVAR3	total
Abdulrahman Al-Jassim	Qatar	0	3	0	0	3	another 2 missions as fourth official; eliminated after the round of 16
Taleb Al-Marri	Qatar	0	0	2	0	2
Carlos Astroza	Chile	0	0	18th	0	18th	Opening game and final
Mark Borsch	Germany	0	0	8th	0	8th
Bastian Dankert	Germany	1	14th	0	2	17th	3rd place match; remained in the tournament until the final
Emerson de Carvalho	Brazil	0	0	1	0	1
Artur Dias	Portugal	3	2	0	3	8th	remained in the tournament until the final
Roberto Díaz Pérez	Spain	0	0	6th	0	6th
Elenito Di Liberatore	Italy	0	0	4th	0	4th
Joe Fletcher	Canada	0	0	6th	0	6th	3rd place match
Paweł Gil	Poland	0	16	0	0	16	remained in the tournament until the final
Cyril Gringore	France	0	0	4th	0	4th
Alexander Guzman	Colombia	0	0	1	0	1
Massimiliano Irrati	Italy	14th	0	0	3	17th	Opening game and final
Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins	Portugal	1	5	0	3	9	eliminated after the round of 16
Simon Lount	New Zealand	0	0	1	0	1
Hernán Maidana	Argentina	0	0	4th	0	4th
Danny Makkelie	Netherlands	11	0	0	7th	18th	final
Daniele Orsato	Italy	7th	0	0	8th	15th	Opening game; remained in the tournament until the final
Corey Rockwell	United States	0	0	2	0	2
Wilton Sampaio	Brazil	0	5	0	3	8th	remained in the tournament until the final
Paweł Sokolnicki	Poland	0	0	3	0	3
Marvin Torrentera	Mexico	0	0	1	0	1
Sander van Roekel	Netherlands	0	0	3	0	3
Paolo Valeri	Italy	2	1	0	11	14th	3rd place match; remained in the tournament until the final
Gery Vargas	Bolivia	0	7th	0	1	8th	eliminated after the round of 16
Mauro Vigliano	Argentina	7th	6th	0	2	15th	Opening game and final
Felix Zwayer	Germany	8th	1	0	7th	16	remained in the tournament until the final

Trivia

• First yellow card of the tournament: Alexander Golowin (Russia) in the 88th minute of the opening game.
• Earliest yellow card after kick-off: Jesús Gallardo (Mexico) in the 1st minute of the group game against Sweden .
• Latest yellow card in regular time:
  • Aleksandar Prijović (Serbia) in the 90th + 8 'minute of the group game against Costa Rica
  • and Cédric Soares (Portugal) in the 90th + 8 'minute in the group game against Iran .
• Latest yellow card, including extra time : Juan Cuadrado (Colombia) in the 118th minute in the round of 16 against England
• First and latest yellow-red card: Jerome Boateng (Germany) in the 82nd minute of the group game against Sweden .
• Earliest and fastest yellow-red card: Igor Smolnikow (Russia) in the group game against Uruguay in the 36th minute of the game - 9 minutes later after receiving the first yellow card in the 27th minute of the game.
• First red card of the tournament and the earliest after the kick-off: Carlos Sánchez (Colombia) in the third minute of the group game against Japan .
• Latest red card after kick-off: Michael Lang (Switzerland) in the 90th + 4 'minute in the last 16 against Sweden
• The only two red cards were shown by Damir Skomina .

Web links

• Performance data of the referees on weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Match Officials for the 2018 FIFA World Cup ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: resources.fifa.com (English) 
2. ^ List of Video match officials. (PDF; 239 kB) FIFA, April 30, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018 (English). 
3. ↑ Line-up of 13 video match officials for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. FIFA, April 30, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Before the cup final in Saudi Arabia - World Cup referee asks for a bribe. In: Spiegel Online. May 16, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018 . 
5. ↑ FIFA statement on the situation of the Saudi Arabian referee Fahad AL MIRDASI. FIFA, May 30, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Updated: List of FIFA match officials (May 30, 2018). (PDF; 157 kB) (No longer available online.) FIFA, May 30, 2018, archived from the original on June 1, 2018 ; accessed on June 1, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Kenyan linesman Aden Range Marwa exposed in documentary and will miss World Cup. June 7, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Aden Rangwe Marwa Caught on Camera Taking Bribes in BBC Exposé. Retrieved June 8, 2018 . 
9. ↑ List of Match Officials for the 2018 FIFA World Cup . In: fifa.com (English)
10. ↑ See Wikipedia sub-article on group games (AH) and the final round of the 2018 World Cup.
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v} Match officials appointed for Russia 2018's final phase. In: fifa.com. July 9, 2018, accessed July 12, 2018 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u} 17 referees, 37 assistant referees and 10 Video Assistant Referees appointed for the next phase of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia ™. In: fifa.com. July 4, 2018, accessed July 7, 2018 .