William Collum

William Collum (March 2011)

William "Willie" Collum (born January 18, 1979 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish football referee . He has been whistling for FIFA internationally since 2006 and is assigned to the highest UEFA category, “Elite Group”.

life and career

William Collum began refereeing in December 1993 and has been with the Scottish Football Association since June 2000 . He made his first division debut on April 15, 2006 in a 0-0 between FC Falkirk and Dunfermline Athletic . In the same year he was promoted to FIFA Referee and in August led his first international match between NK Domžale and Hapoel Tel Aviv in the UEFA Cup qualification . Collum was used in the junior division at several tournaments and in the course of this at the U-19 European Football Championship in 2008 in the final. He also directed two games at the 2011 U-20 World Cup .

On March 18, 2012 he was referee in the final of Celtic Glasgow against FC Kilmarnock of the Scottish League Cup 2011/12 , which ended 0-1. Shortly before the end, he denied Glasgow a penalty, after which he received death threats over the Internet and threatening phone calls. However, this is no reason for Collum to end his career.

Collum was a goal judge part of the Scottish referee team at the European Football Championship 2012 , which was used under Craig Thomson for two preliminary round games.

In civil life, Collum is a religious studies teacher in North Lanarkshire . He teaches at St. Aidan's High School in Wishaw and the Catholic Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill . The latter was also head of the religion department until 2011, but gave up this work in favor of his work as an arbitrator.

statistics

season	Premier League	FA Cup	Europe League	Champions League	International matches
2005/2006	1	2	0	0	0
2006/2007	8th	1	0/1	0	0
2007/2008	14th	0	0/1	0/1	2
2008/2009	17th	4th	3/0	0/1	3
2009/2010	23	1	4/1	0/1	1
2010/2011	21st	2	3/1	3/1	0
2011/2012	19th	4th	4/0	2/0	1
2012/2013	24	3	2/0	4/0	2
total	127	17th	16/4	9/4	9

Notes: List as of April 30, 2013. The division "x / y" describes the number of appearances in the competition on the left of the slash and the games in the respective qualification on the right. The column “international matches” lists all of these in the A area, both friendly matches and for World Cup / European Championship (qualification) matches.

Games with German participation

competition	date	encounter	Result
UEFA Cup	Feb. 26, 2009	VfB Stuttgart - Zenit St. Petersburg	1: 2 (0: 1)
Champions League	Oct 20, 2010	FC Schalke 04 - Hapoel Tel Aviv	3: 1 (1: 0)
Champions League	0Dec 5, 2012	Bayern Munich - BATE Baryssau	4: 1 (1: 0)
Champions League	Feb 20, 2013	Galatasaray Istanbul - FC Schalke 04	1: 1 (1: 1)
Champions League	19th Oct 2016	Bayern Munich - PSV Eindhoven	4: 1 (2: 1)
Champions League	Apr 11, 2018	Bayern Munich - Sevilla FC	0-0
Europe League	07th Mar 2019	Eintracht Frankfurt - Inter Milan	0-0

Gate judge assignments at the 2012 European Football Championship

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 13, 2012	Lviv	Denmark	Portugal	2: 3 (1: 2)
Group stage	June 16, 2012	Wroclaw	Czech Republic	Poland	1: 0 (0: 0)

Appearances at the European Football Championship 2016

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 15, 2016	Marseille	France	Albania	2: 0 (0: 0)
Group stage	June 21, 2016	Lens	Czech Republic	Turkey	0: 2 (0: 1)

Web links

• William Collum's referee profile at the Scottish Football Association (SFA)
• Willie Collum at transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} UEFA Champions League - Referees (2011/12 season). UEFA .com, p. 6 , accessed on March 26, 2013 . 
2. ↑ UEFA Referee Categories 2012/2013 (I). (No longer available online.) Footballrefereeing.blogspot.com, archived from the original on December 31, 2012 ; Retrieved April 30, 2013 . 
3. ^ Referee Profiles: William Collum. Scottish Football Association , accessed April 30, 2013 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Referee profile of Willie Collum. transfermarkt.de , accessed April 30, 2013 . 
5. ^ David McCarthy: Ref Willie Collum: Death threats from internet morons won't force me out of football. Daily Record, April 11, 2012, accessed April 30, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Ref quits teaching post to be on pitch ( Memento from April 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
7. ^ Alan Pattullo: Man in the middle can't get away from fact that penalty call defined his game. The Scotsman , October 25, 2010, accessed April 30, 2013 .