Marina Wozniak

Marina Wozniak (2009)

Marina Wozniak (born September 7, 1979 in Herne ) is a German soccer referee . She whistles for the club SV Sodingen .

Career

She has been a DFB referee since 2004 and directed games in the women's second division . A year later she was promoted to the Bundesliga . When German Cup final of women in 2007 was as a fourth official used. The DFB nominated her as referee for the women's DFB Cup final on May 17, 2014 between SGS Essen and 1. FFC Frankfurt.

She became a FIFA assistant referee in 2008 and was on the FIFA list until 2016. In 2008 she was appointed to the U-20 World Cup in Chile . In 2009 she was used at the European Championships in Finland . 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 Katrin Rafalski from Bad Zwesten (also assistant) and the FIFA referee Bibiana Steinhaus . When Olympic football tournament for women in 2012 she also was used, u. a. as assistant finale. Marina Wozniak worked as an assistant at the 2013 European Women's Championships in Sweden. In May 2014, she was nominated as assistant referee for the Women's U-20 World Cup in Canada in August .

In March 2015 she was nominated as assistant referee for the 2015 World Cup . There she and her colleague Katrin Rafalski 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, she was nominated together with Rafalski as assistant to Hungarian Katalin Kulcsár for the game between China and New Zealand on June 15.

In the men's division, she directs games in the fifth-class Oberliga Westfalen, previously she was used in the Oberligen Westfalen and Nordrhein as well as the NRW League since 2006 . Since the 2016/17 season Wozniak has also been working as an assistant in the Regionalliga West.

honors and awards

In 2016 Marina Wozniak was awarded the sports plaque of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for her sporting achievements . In 2011, the Herne Referees Association named her “Referee of the Year”. The Football and Athletics Association of Westphalia (FLVW) awarded her the title of "Referee of the Year" at the association level back in 2008.

In July 2019 Wozniak was named " Referee of the Year 2019" by the DFB .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wozniak: "There's almost nothing bigger in women's football" . In: DFB - German Football Association eV ( dfb.de [accessed on November 27, 2016]).
2. ↑ fussball.de: Steinhaus and Wozniak on the Women's European Championship 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ fussballportal.de: DFB referee Steinhaus whistles at the World Cup ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ fifa.com: "US girls secure gold again"
5. ↑ fifa.com: List of FIFA women referees and assistant referees - FIFA Women's World Cup U20 Canada 2014
6. ↑ 22 referees, 7 support referees and 44 assistant referees for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup ™. In: fifa.com. FIFA, March 30, 2015, accessed March 30, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Canada 0-0 New Zealand
8. ↑ China - New Zealand
9. ↑ Radio Herne: The Herne referee Marina Wozniak has been awarded the NRW sports badge. In: www.radioherne.de. Retrieved November 27, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Referee of the Year. (No longer available online.) In: www.schiedsrichter-herne.info. Archived from the original on November 28, 2016 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 . 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.  
11. ↑ FLVW.de: Football and Athletics Association Westphalia (FLVW): Honors. In: www.flvw.de. Retrieved November 27, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Wozniak and Aytekin are "Referee of the Year 2019". Retrieved February 17, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Marina Wozniak  - collection of images

• Referee profile of the DFB
• Profile on the website of the Herne Referees Association