Referees list confirmed for 2018

The full list of officials who will adjudicate for the coming year is out now.

The full list of beach soccer referees has been released by FIFA for 2018, with men and women from across the globe helping keep the sport fair and in line with the rules of the game.

Like any sport, officials are a crucial part of beach soccer, with our referees having amassed years of experience covering competitions across the world.

The longest serving of this year’s crop of referees are Brazilian pair Ivo Moraes and Renato Carlos, who have each been ‘the men in the middle’ under the banner of FIFA Beach Soccer since 2005.

At the other end of the spectrum, 24 referees will start out under FIFA for the first time this year.

The full list of FIFA referees is available below, ordered by confederation.

AFC

(Country) Afghanistan (Name) Zainudin SHARIFI (FIFA referee since) 2015

Bahrain Abdulla SALEH 2011

Bahrain Waleed ABDULKARIM 2011

China PR LI Qibin M 2015

China PR SHAO Liang 2013

IR Iran Amir FALEHI 2018

IR Iran Ebrahim AKBARPOUR 2012

IR Iran Ebrahim KORD 2018

IR Iran Hamid MOGHADDAM MATIN 2016

Iraq Aghar Muzahem Tuama ALSHAMANY 2018

Japan Makoto SATO 2016

Japan Yuichi HATANO 2015

Kuwait Abdulaziz ABDULLAH 2009

Kuwait Waled MAHROUS 2015

Lebanon Gerges YARAK 2010

Lebanon Hassan ABED 2012

Malaysia Suhaimi MAT HASSAN 2010

Malaysia Wan WAN IBRAHIM 2010

Oman Fallah Hassan Mohammed AL BALUSHI 2016

Oman Turki AL SALEHI 2009

Palestine Mahmoud ABUMUSTAFA 2015

Palestine Mahmoud ALSAWAF 2015

Thailand Montree THONGKLOD 2018

Thailand Suwat WONGSUWAN 2011

Turkmenistan Boris BOROVIK 2012

United Arab Emirates Ahmad SALASMY 2011

United Arab Emirates Ebrahim ALMANSORY 2009

United Arab Emirates Ibrahim Yousif Abdulla Ahmed ALRAEESI 2017

Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor NAMAZOV 2009

CAF

Cote d’Ivoire Innocent Desire ADJOUMANI 2017

Cote d’Ivoire Wonan Dominique Sidoine TOPPE 2017

Egypt Ahmed MOHAMED ABDELHAMID ELWAN NOFAL 2017

Egypt Hany FAROUK ELSAYED EL ERAKY 2015

Egypt Mohamed ABDELMEGUID ATTYA ABDELMEGUID 2016

Egypt Mohamed SAYED ISMAIL EMAM 2018

Libya Emad Abdullah SULAYMAN 2017

Libya Ezuldeen Mohamed ATEEYH 2017

Libya Muftah SALEM 2016

Libya Yahya ABDEL 2010

Madagascar Said HACHIM 2010

Madagascar Tsaralaza MAOLIDY 2013

Mauritius Louis SIAVE 2016

Mauritius Reetesh LOLL 2016

Morocco Adil OUCHKER 2013

Morocco Driss LAMGHAIDAR 2013

Nigeria Jelili OGUNMUYIWA 2008

Nigeria Olawale Adeolu FAWOLE 2016

Nigeria Olayanka OLAJIDE 2018

Nigeria Sani MOHAMMED 2011

Senegal Aly DEME 2017

Senegal Mbokh BEYE 2011

Senegal Oumar SAGNA 2017

Senegal Youssouph SIGNATE 2011

Sudan Fadul Abdelmajeed ADAM 2016

Sudan Hassan Mohamed ELTOUM 2017

Sudan Nagi Ali DOKA 2017

Sudan Yasir Allahgabu Abdelrahman TOOTOO 2017

Tanzania Geofrey Tumaini MWAMBONEKO 2018

Tanzania Jackson Steven MSILOMBO 2018

Tunisia Hamdi BCHIR 2016

Tunisia Issam BOUSBIH 2014

Tunisia Med El Habib HIBA 2017

Uganda Ivan KINTU 2015

Uganda Muhammad SSENTEZA 2015

Uganda Shafic MUGERWA 2015

CONCACAF

Costa Rica Carlos SANTAMARIA GONZALEZ 2016

Costa Rica Marco NAVARRO CALDERON 2016

Costa Rica Warner PORRAS 2011

Cuba Alexander RAFOSO VEITIA 2018

Cuba Arian PEREZ CRESPO 2018

Dominican Republic Juan ANGELES 2012

Dominican Republic Robert Junior RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA 2016

El Salvador David Ernesto CRUZ TRINIDAD 2016

El Salvador Gonzalo Yurandir CARBALLO PEREZ 2014

El Salvador Julio Josue RAMOS MEJIA 2018

Guatemala Miguel LOPEZ 2011

Mexico Miguel AGUILAR 2013

Panama Arquel Alexis CARRASCO SOLIS 2018

Panama Gumercindo BATISTA 2012

CONMEBOL

Argentina Carlos Gabriel MAIDANA 2017

Argentina Dario Eduardo COLOMBANI 2017

Argentina Mariano ROMO 2013

Argentina Pablo Mariano DEFELIPPI 2017

Bolivia Jaimito SUAREZ HERBAS 2017

Bolivia Jose Luis MENDOZA ESCOBAR 2015

Bolivia Juan Carlos GUTIERREZ COCA 2017

Bolivia Rolando ARTEAGA CAMARA 2015

Brazil Ivo MORAES 2005 

Brazil Lucas ESTEVAO 2017

Brazil Mayron REIS NOVAIS 2014

Brazil Renato CARLOS 2005

Chile Cristian Marcelo DROGUETT VALENZUELA 2018

Chile Victor Manuel LARA VIDAL 2017

Colombia Jorge Ivan GOMEZ CAMACHO 2016

Colombia Juan Carlos Alberto AMAYA TORO 2016

Ecuador Brando Luis AMAY GOROTIZA 2018

Ecuador Fabricio QUINTERO 2012

Ecuador Jose CORTEZ 2009

Ecuador Wilson Enrique BRAVO BARRE 2017

Paraguay Cesar Armando CABRERA QUINTANA 2015

Paraguay Gustavo DOMINGUEZ 2012

Paraguay Jorge Luis MARTINEZ PAVON 2015

Paraguay Silvio David CORONEL ROJAS 2017

Peru Alex VALDIVIEZO 2012

Peru Micke PALOMINO 2012

Peru Ramon Israel BLANCO QUISPE 2017 

Uruguay Aecio Andres FERNANDEZ MACHADO 2018 

Uruguay Andres Alexander OLIVERA ABILA 2014

Uruguay Christian Alberto ALTEZ 2015

Uruguay Pablo Marcelo CADENASSO MARTINEZ 2015

Venezuela Luis Eduardo COY MORENO 2016

OFC

Solomon Islands Hugo PADO 2010

Tahiti Aurelien Jean Pierre Guy PLANCHAIS-GODEFROY 2018

UEFA

Azerbaijan Ali JABRAYILOV 2018

Azerbaijan Ingilab MAMMADOV 2012

Azerbaijan Sadagat VALIYEVA 2015

Belarus Mikhail PROKHARAV 2009

Belgium Emmanuel VOCALE 2011

Belgium Gary CHRISTIEN 2016

Bulgaria Ivan KIRILOV 2014

Bulgaria Vladimir TASHKOV 2016

Czech Republic Jiri LASCH 2012

Czech Republic Libor KASTANEK 2008

Estonia Ago KAERTMANN 2013

Estonia Andrei KARHU 2013

France Benoit WOLFF 2011

France Moussa BOUNAANAA 2018

France Sofien BENCHABANE 2011

Georgia Kakha VASADZE 2018

Georgia Nikoloz KUTSIA 2018

Germany Malte GERHARDT 2018

Germany Torsten GUENTHER 2014

Hungary Csaba BAGHY 2015

Hungary Laszlo LEGEZA 2016

Israel Zvi LEVI 2017

Italy Alfredo PAVONE 2017

Italy Gionni MATTICOLI 2012

Italy Luca ROMANI 2018

Italy Saverio BOTTALICO 2017

Kazakhstan Oleg BURMISTROV 2010

Kazakhstan Pavel VALYAYEV 2014

Latvia Eduards BORISEVICS 2008

Latvia Jurijs IVUSINS 2011

Lithuania Laurynas ARZUOLAITIS 2014

Lithuania Vitalij GOMOLKO 2015

Malta Jonathan MALLIA 2017

Malta Jude Amin UTULU 2012

Moldova Oleg CEBOTARI 2010

Netherlands Erwin Mathijs KLOOSTERMAN 2017

Netherlands Luis DUARTE 2010

Netherlands Michael MEDINA 2010

Netherlands Richard DE BRUIJN 2014

Poland Lukasz OSTROWSKI 2012

Poland Tomasz WINIARCZYK 2010

Portugal Antonio PEREIRA 2013

Portugal Francisco HENRIQUES COSTA 2016 

Portugal Sergio Filipe GOMES SOARES 2014

Portugal Wilson CASTANHEIRA SOARES 2016

Romania Attila BALINT 2017

Romania Gabriel STROE 2012

Romania Ionel BOHARU PREDESCU 2017

Russia Alexander BEREZKIN 2008

Russia Roman BORISOV 2014

Russia Viktor LISTRATOV 2017

Russia Vitaliy LEVCHENKO 2014                              

San Marino Raffaele DELVECCHIO 2018

Spain Daniel YUSTE QUEROL 2016

Spain Francisco DE OSES BUMEDIEN 2018

Spain Pablo BREA PEON 2013

Spain Raul Martin GONZALEZ FRANCES 2016

Switzerland Christian ZIMMERMANN 2009

Switzerland Dario MINDER 2017

Switzerland Joshua SIEBENPFUND 2017

Switzerland Nuno Antonio MADEIRA BAPTISTA 2016

Turkey Buelent KOEKTEN 2016

Turkey Murat Ergin GOZUTOK 2015

Turkey Oezcan SULTANOLU 2016

Turkey Yeliz TOPALOGLU 2014

Ukraine Ivan STUKALO 2017

Ukraine Oleksandr GULIAIEV 2015

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