Mark Clattenburg

Mark Clattenburg at the 2012 Summer Games in London

Mark Clattenburg (born March 13, 1975 in Consett , County Durham ) is an English football referee .

Career

He made his league debut on August 21, 2004 and has been a FIFA referee since 2006 . On March 13, 2012, he was in charge of the Champions League second leg between Bayern Munich and FC Basel . FIFA nominated him for the 2012 Olympic Games in his home country. There he was selected to lead the final between Brazil and Mexico. On May 1, 2014, Clattenburg made a first in the UEFA Europa League match between Juventus Turin and Benfica Lisbon , when he sent two previously substituted players Mirko Vučinić and Lazar Marković with a red card from the bench into the dressing room.

On May 28, 2016, Clattenburg chaired the final of the UEFA Champions League between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid .

In the same year he was named by UEFA as referee for the European Football Championship 2016 in France . There he initially directed three games before he was also nominated to lead the final between Portugal and hosts France .

On February 16, 2017, Clattenburg's move to the Saudi Arabian Football Association was announced, where he will take over from Howard Webb as head of the referee committee and also play in the Saudi Professional League and King Cup .

Tournaments

Appearances at the 2012 Olympic men's soccer tournament in London

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group C	July 29, 2012	Manchester	Egypt	New Zealand	1: 1 (1: 1)
Quarter finals	0Aug 4, 2012	London	Mexico	Senegal	4: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0)
final	Aug 11, 2012	London	Brazil	Mexico	1: 2 (0: 1)

Appearances at the European Football Championship 2016 in France

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 13, 2016	Lyon	Belgium	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
Group stage	17th June 2016	Saint-Etienne	Czech Republic	Croatia	2: 2 (0: 1)
Round of 16	June 25, 2016	Saint-Etienne	Switzerland	Poland	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1), 4: 5 in E.
final	July 10, 2016	Saint-Denis	Portugal	France	1: 0 a.d. (0: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Transfer market: Mark Clattenburg
2. ↑ Daily week for the game between Bayern and FC Basel
3. ↑ On the hunt for historic gold , fifa.com, accessed August 10, 2012
4. ↑ Juve missed the final and saw red twice!
5. ↑ Eighteen referees appointed for UEFA EURO 2016 , uefa.org (English). Retrieved December 22, 2015.
6. ↑ Immediate farewell to the Premier League Referee Clattenburg moves to Saudi Arabia ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.