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Select Group Referees
The Select Group is a panel of English professional football referees and assistant referees, appointed by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL). The group was first formed in 2001, when England became the first country to use fully professional referees in its top flight. Select Group officials In August 2024, the PGMOL shared updates to the Select Group officiating panels. Furthermore, in August 2024, the retirement of Rebecca Welch was announced. She will become the manager of the Select Group Women's Professional Game at the PGMOL. In December 2024, David Coote was sacked from the PGMOL, removing him from the Select Group 1 referees list. There are 20 Select Group 1 referees, 30 Select Group 1 assistant referees, 20 Select Group 2 referees, and 33 Select Group 2 assistant referees. Select Group 1 referees * Stuart Attwell * Peter Bankes * Sam Barrott * Darren Bond * Tom Bramall * John Brooks * Darren England * Jarred Gillett * Tony Harrington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Kavanagh (referee)
Chris Kavanagh (born 4 September 1985) is an English professional football referee from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. He officiates primarily in the Premier League having been promoted to the Select Group of Referees in 2017. Career Kavanagh began his refereeing career at the age of 13. In 2012, he was promoted to officiate matches in the National League. Kavanagh began refereeing in the Football League in 2014. Kavanagh took charge of his first Premier League match in April 2017. Kavanagh was appointed to FIFA's international referees list in 2019. Kavanagh was the final appointed referee for the 2021 EFL Championship play-off final between Brentford and Swansea City at Wembley Stadium on 29 May 2021. Kavanagh was the video assistant referee for the 2021 FA Cup final between Chelsea and Leicester City. Kavanagh was appointed referee for the 2024 EFL Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Dowle
Kirsty Dowle (born 23 August 1991) is an English football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... referee who officiated at the 2022 Women's FA Cup Final, and the 2023 FA Women's League Cup Final. She officiates in the Women's Super League, and was added to the 2020 FIFA international list of women referees. References 1991 births Living people Women association football referees Women's association football referees English football referees {{sports-official-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Byrne
Abigail Byrne (born 19 April 1992) is an English professional football referee from Suffolk working for Professional Game Match Officials Limited. Since 2016, she has officiated primarily in the Women's Super League, as well as for FIFA and UEFA as a FIFA international referee since 2019. She also officiates in men's professional football on the English Football League and National League. Domestic Refereeing career Byrne has been a qualified referee with Suffolk County Football Association since 2011 and was trained by their Referees Academy based at Ipswich Town F.C. She refereed many of her early games on the Bury & District Sunday League. She is a member of the Bury St Edmunds Referees Association and is dual registered with Cambridgeshire County Football Association. She was promoted as a referee through the National League System via the Eastern Counties Football League between 2015-2016, followed by the Isthmian League between 2016-2022, where she was voted Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Madley
Robert Madley (born 6 October 1985) is an English professional football referee who was on the list of Select Group Referees who officiate primarily in the Premier League between 2013 and 2018. He officiated in the Football League as a referee from 2010 and was one of the youngest officials to progress to the top-flight of English football. Madley was previously one of the referee development officers for the West Riding County Football Association before taking up a full-time role with the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL). His older brother, Andrew Madley, is a Premier League and FIFA-listed referee. Career In his early career, from 2001, Madley refereed in the Wakefield and District League and then the West Yorkshire Association Football League. In 2010, he joined the National List of referees who officiate in the Football League. In 2012, he was added to the FIFA fifth officials' list. In April 2013, Madley took charge of his first Premier League fixture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Langford
Oliver Langford is an English referee and officiates primarily in the EFL Championship. He is not in the Select Group of match officials but is, however, on the Group Two list and trained in the use of '' Video Assisted Refereeing'', which means he is qualified to take charge of an elite league match. He has been a referee since 2009. He made his Premier League debut on 18 August 2019, when he was scheduled to be the fourth official in Chelsea's home match against Leicester City. However, referee Graham Scott was stuck in traffic on the M40. Scott arrived at the ground late and missed the warm-up so was replaced by Langford. The match finished in a 1–1 draw. A controversial call by Langford during the 2024/2025 EFL Championship season, in which he awarded Norwich two goals after the ball had gone over a foot out of play, gave Norwich City a 3-2 win over Derby County. Later in the 2024/2025 EFL Championship The English Football League Championship, known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Allison
Sam Allison (born 1 October 1980) is an English professional football referee and former player who officiates in the English Football League. Playing career Allison played as a midfielder for Swindon Town, Bristol City, Bournemouth, Exeter City, Clevedon Town, Bath City, Salisbury City, Chippenham Town, and Frome Town, as well as for England and Great Britain schoolboys. Refereeing career Allison worked as a firefighter and as a match official in the English Football League. On 26 December 2023 he became the first black referee in the Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ... in 15 years, since Uriah Rennie. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Allison, Sam 1980 births Living people English men's footballers Swindon Town F.C. players Bristol City F.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sian Massey-Ellis
Sian Louise Massey-Ellis (née Massey; born 5 October 1985) is an English football match official who officiates generally in the role of assistant referee in the Premier League and the Football League. She has also been appointed to matches in the Football League Trophy, UEFA Women's Champions League, FIFA Women's World Cup qualification rounds, the FIFA Women's World Cup and the UEFA Europa League. Massey-Ellis was appointed to the FIFA list of women assistant referees in 2009 and turned professional in 2010. She is based in Coventry, West Midlands. Career Domestic career In May 2009, Massey-Ellis was appointed fourth official for the year's FA Women's Cup final at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium, a game which saw two injury-time goals and Arsenal defeat Sunderland 2–1. In the 2009–10 men's season Massey was fourth official in five matches and assistant referee in 11 matches. Her first appointment as an assistant referee was on 29 August 2009, a 2–2 draw betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Tierney (referee)
Paul Tierney (born 25 December 1980) is a football referee from Wigan, Greater Manchester, who referees in the Premier League. He first officiated in the Premier League on 30 August 2014. He was promoted to the FIFA list of referees in 2018, but was removed again in 2022. Tierney is registered with the Lancashire Football Association. Career He was the assistant referee for the 2010 FA Cup Final. At the time of his promotion to the Select Group, Tierney had been on the National List of Referees since 2009 and had refereed more than 230 matches. He was the fourth official for the 2014 FA Vase Final. Tierney made his third appearance at Wembley on 27 May 2019, when he officiated the Championship play-off final between Aston Villa and Derby County. On 25 April 2021, Tierney officiated the 2021 EFL Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur. He officiated the 2023 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Manchester United Manchester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Taylor (referee)
Anthony Taylor (born 20 October 1978) is an English professional football referee from Wythenshawe, Manchester. In 2010, he was promoted to the list of Select Group Referees who officiate primarily in the Premier League, and in 2013 became a listed referee for FIFA allowing him to referee European and international matches. In 2015, he officiated the Football League Cup final at Wembley Stadium when Chelsea defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2–0. Taylor returned to Wembley later that year to officiate the Community Shield as Arsenal beat Chelsea 1–0. He refereed the 2017 and 2020 FA Cup finals, both between Chelsea and Arsenal; Arsenal won on both occasions 2–1. Upon the selection, he became the first man to referee a second FA Cup final since Arthur Kingscott in 1901. Early life Taylor was a student at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys. Career Early career Taylor started refereeing in the Northern Premier League in 2002, progressing to officiate in the Conference N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Salisbury
Michael Salisbury (born 1985) is an English professional football referee and former teacher who belongs to the Select Group of Referees in England and officiates in the Premier League. Early and personal life Salisbury was born in Penwortham in 1985. His father, Graham, is a former referee who retired at the end of the at the end of the 2020–21 season, after a 21-year career as an EFL referee. Salisbury has two children. Career Salisbury is a former PE teacher and previously taught at Parklands High School. Refereeing Salisbury was introduced to refereeing by his father, Graham, and began his refereeing career in 2001 in the local leagues in Preston. His father retired on the final day of the 2020–21 season, having officiated 588 Football League games, and Salisbury was his fourth official for the game. Salisbury was involved in his first professional game in 2010 as an Assistant Referee in the EFL. Salisbury began refereeing in the Vanarama National League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Robinson (referee)
Tim Robinson (born 1 January 1984) is an English football referee who officiates primarily in the Premier League. His county FA is the Sussex Football Association. Early life Robinson was born on 1 January 1984 in West Sussex. Career Robinson progressed through the Sussex leagues before moving to the National League and Football League. He began refereeing in the Football League in 2011. In 2016, he became a full-time match official and gave up his job as a PE teacher. On 14 December 2019, Robinson officiated his first Premier League match, which ended as a 1–0 victory for Burnley against Newcastle United. He was promoted to Select Group 1 for the 2023–24 season. On 25 February 2024, he was fourth official to Chris Kavanagh in the EFL Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
