Wieland Ziller

Wieland Ziller (born December 12, 1952 ) is a former German football referee for the DFV and the DFB .

The trained toolmaker and studied engineer for general mechanical engineering passed his referee examination in 1968 and from 1974 headed games of the second highest division in the GDR (GDR League). Since 1980 he headed almost 100 games in the GDR league and after reunification for the DFB between 1990 and 1994 42 games in the first Bundesliga . Between 1986 and 1994 he was also a referee for the world association FIFA .

He presided in 1989 the FDGB Cup final between the Berliner FC Dynamo and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1: 0) in the World Youth Stadium , Berlin , in front of 35,000 spectators.

His record also includes 3 international A matches, the final of the U17 Junior European Championship in 1987 , Italy against the Soviet Union (1-0) in Paris, and 5 EC games.

After his active time as a referee, Wieland Ziller was involved in the 2005 soccer betting scandal surrounding Robert Hoyzer in his capacity as a referee supervisor . On November 27, 2004, he had received a sum of at least 25,000 euros from Ante Sapina , the convicted mastermind of the scandal, and gave the impression that he was passing a large part of this amount on to the supposedly manipulative referee Jürgen Jansen . In fact, however, Ziller kept all the money to himself and did not contact Jansen. He was banned for his actions by the DFB for 5 months, from the end of May to the end of October 2005, for official tasks and functions within the DFB.

Web links

• Bundesliga usage statistics
• www.fussball.com on the soccer betting scandal 2005 DFB sports court: Five months ban for Ziller