Massimo Busacca

Massimo Busacca
Personal
Surname	Massimo Busacca
birthday	February 6, 1969
place of birth	Bellinzona , Switzerland
job	Entrepreneur
Club information
society	US Monte Carasso
Games by division
Years	Division	Games
2002-2011	Axpo Super League	154
Finals
2001/02 UEFA Champions League as a fourth official 2006/07 UEFA Cup UEFA Champions League 2008/09
Status: July 13, 2011

Massimo Busacca (born February 6, 1969 in Bellinzona ) is a former Swiss football referee .

Career

Busacca lives in Monte Carasso near Bellinzona. The business owner, whose home club is the US Monte Carasso, was a referee for the top Swiss division, the Axpo Super League (until 2003, National League A) from 1996 to 2011 . He has been a FIFA referee since 1998 . Busacca led three games at the 2006 World Cup in Germany with assistants Matthias Arnet and Francesco Buragina. At the European Football Championship 2008 in Austria / Switzerland, he led two preliminary round matches and the semi-finals between Germany and Turkey. The assistants Matthias Arnet and Stéphane Cuhat supported him here. In 2009 he directed the final of the Champions League .

On September 20, 2009, while he was in charge of the cup game between FC Baden and Young Boys Bern , he reacted to screams from Bern fans with the finger and was banned for three rounds. Even so, he was named World Referee 2009 by the IFFHS. From 2005 to 2010, Busacca received the award for Swiss “Referee of the Year” six times in a row. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was only used in a preliminary round match for the host team.

On July 13, 2011, he announced his resignation as a FIFA referee and then took over the management of the FIFA referee department.

Wagering on important games

UEFA Cup competitions

• UEFA Champions League 2002 Final: Real Madrid - Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( as fourth official )  
• UEFA Cup 2007 Final: Sevilla FC - Espanyol Barcelona  
• UEFA Champions League 2008 semi-final: FC Barcelona - Manchester United  
• UEFA Champions League 2009 Final: FC Barcelona - Manchester United  
• UEFA Champions League 2010 semi-final: Olympique Lyon - FC Bayern Munich  
• UEFA Super Cup 2010 : Inter Milan - Atlético Madrid  

World and European championships

• Football World Cup 2006 in Germany (3 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 14, 2006	Leipzig	Spain	Ukraine	4: 0 (2: 0)
Group stage	June 20, 2006	Cologne	Sweden	England	2: 2 (0: 1)
Round of 16	June 24, 2006	Leipzig	Argentina	Mexico	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1)

• European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland (3 appearances):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 10, 2008	Salzburg	Greece	Sweden	0: 2 (0: 0)
Group stage	June 17, 2008	Bern	Netherlands	Romania	2: 0 (0: 0)
Semifinals	June 25, 2008	Basel	Germany	Turkey	3: 2 (1: 1)

• Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa (1 use):

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 16, 2010	Pretoria	South Africa	Uruguay	0: 3 (0: 1)

Web links

Commons : Massimo Busacca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Massimo Busacca in the database of weltfussball.de
• Massimo Busacca in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "No goodbye, just a goodbye!" , Swissinfo.ch of July 17, 2011
2. ↑ Massimo Busacca to become Head of FIFA Referees , FIFA.com, Accessed July 13, 2011