Stéphanie Frappart

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Stéphanie Frappart (2017)

Stéphanie Frappart (born December 14, 1983 in Herblay-sur-Seine , Département Val-d'Oise ) is a French football referee who has played in international matches in women's football as well as in professional men's matches - since July 2014 in Ligue 2 and since spring 2019 in Ligue 1  - is used.

Career

National

The 1.64 m tall Stéphanie Frappart has played soccer in Herblay-sur-Seine and at CS Pierrelaye herself as a midfielder since she was ten . During these years she was trained to be a referee “to get to know the rules better”. When she came of age, she decided to focus solely on refereeing. In this role she rose quickly and "with impressive regularity" step by step. As a 19-year-old, she was used not only in women's but also in men's games (seventh division). From 2009, she was allowed in the fourth and two years later - became only the second Frenchwoman to Nelly Viennot  - also in the third division of the men derive competitive matches. While Viennot was only used on the sidelines in the second division , Frappart was also entrusted with game management at this level. Her first appointment there was a game between Chamois Niort and Stade Brest in early August 2014. Since then, she has whistled 75 Ligue 2 games, in which she issued 286 warnings and 18 sent offs. In the cup competition of the men they first came early in 2015 as an arbiter of the main round game between Le Mans FC and FC Tours used. In April 2019, she made her debut on the occasion of two matches between SC Amiens and Racing Strasbourg and OGC Nice against FC Nantes in the top French league , in which she will regularly lead games from the 2019/20 season (Arbitre Fédéral 1) . (Status: after the end of the 2018/19 season)

In women's football, in addition to numerous Division 1 Féminine games, from 2007 the management of the 2011 French women's cup final between AS Saint-Étienne and HSC Montpellier was one of Stéphanie Frappart's most important appearances as a referee. In 2014, the professional footballers union UNFP honored her for her achievements with one of its trophies .

Frappart's main job is for the Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail (FSGT), the French workers' sports association .

International

Stéphanie Frappart came on the FIFA list of referees for international appearances in 2011; since then she has led youth and women's international games, including six World Cup qualifying matches in 2013 and 2014 . Her first continental tournament was the 2012 U-19 European Championship in Turkey , in which she was used in three games, including the final between Sweden and Spain.

In addition, UEFA has regularly included them in the Women's Champions League since 2012 (13 match directors since 2012/13); Most recently, she whistled there in autumn 2018 the first leg of the first leg between Chelsea FC and the women of Fiorentina . She has also been the game director at the Algarve Cup since 2014 .

Another highlight of her career was the appointment as one of nine European women referees at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada . There she started as the 4th official in the opening match; In the further course of the tournament, Stéphanie Frappart led the preliminary round match between Australia and Nigeria and in the round of 16 USA against Colombia .

In the following year, she was appointed to play director at the Olympic women's tournament in Brazil and in 2017 at the European Women's Championship . In the Netherlands she whistled the opening game between the hosts and Norway , as another preliminary round game Sweden against Russia and again the Netherlands, this time in the semifinals against England .

Also in the U-20 Women's World Cup in 2018 , she worked as a referee in use; there she directed, among other things, the final.

In December 2018 she was nominated for the 2019 Women's World Cup . At this finals in her own country, she headed - again with Manuela Nicolosi on the sidelines - two group games ( Argentina against Japan and the Netherlands against Canada ), the quarter-finals in which the Germans were defeated by the Swedes, and finally the World Cup final between the USA and the Netherlands.

In August 2019, the UEFA nominated Frappart for the first time as a referee for an important international competitive match in men's football; On August 14, 2019, she was in charge of the UEFA Supercup match between Champions League winners Liverpool FC and Europa League winners Chelsea FC in Istanbul . At the end of the year, Frappart was elected World Referee 2019 by the IFFHS .

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. a b after the article “ Stéphanie Frappart la grâce au service du jeu ” from January 9, 2003 in Le Parisien
  2. according to the article from the series "Quatre filles dans le vent" from May 13, 2015 at France Football and the interview from June 26, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  3. see Frappart's corresponding usage statistics at foot-national.com
  4. For Stéphanie Frappart's first L2 game, see the report from August 9, 2014 at directmatin.fr.
  5. see the seasonal statistics on the league association LFP website and the message " Stéphanie Frappart keeps her place in Ligue 2 " from June 7, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  6. a b c according to Frappart's usage statistics at weltfussball.de (see under web links )
  7. Kicker from June 6, 2019, extra pages on the Women's Soccer World Cup, p. 15; “ Stéphanie Frappart promoted to first division referee ” on June 7, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
  8. see the photo in the article from August 9, 2014 on directmatin.fr.
  9. after the interview on June 26, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  10. see the article “ Coupe du Monde 2015 - Deux Françaises au Canada ” from March 31, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  11. Announcement “ Stéphanie Frappart directs the opening game at the Women's Euro ” from July 16, 2017 at fff.fr; Frappart's regular assistant Manuela Nicolosi was also part of the tournament at this tournament .
  12. fifa.com: Line-up of match officials for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 ™
  13. fifa.com: FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 List of match officials
  14. Female premiere in the UEFA Supercup , accessed on August 2, 2019