Abdulrahman Al-Jassim
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Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim (; born 14 October 1987) is a Qatari football referee who has been a full international referee for
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since 2013.


Career

He was one of the referees for the
2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 21st edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 a ...
in South Korea. Al-Jassim was appointed to be a
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for the
2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded t ...
in Russia. Al-Jassim was also appointed to be a referee at the
2019 AFC Asian Cup The 2019 AFC Asian Cup (or commonly called the Asian Cup 2019) was the 17th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international association football, football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ...
in the United Arab Emirates. He was also the
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referee. In June 2019 it was announced that Al-Jassim would officiate in the
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 15th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's association football, soccer championship of the North, Central American, and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. The tournament was p ...
as part of a referee exchange program between
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and the AFC, which had previously seen Mexican referee César Arturo Ramos in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The FIFA Referees Committee appointed Abdulrahman for
2019 FIFA Club World Cup The 2019 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019 presented by Alibaba Cloud for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised international club association football, fo ...
in Qatar on 14 November as part of an all-Qatari trio of officials. He officiated the final between
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and
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at the
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in Doha. He was appointed to the referee team for the
2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022, after the country was awarded the hosting ri ...
, in his native Qatar.


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* * * Living people 1987 births Qatari football referees 2018 FIFA World Cup referees 2022 FIFA World Cup referees CONCACAF Gold Cup referees 2023 AFC Asian Cup referees {{Qatar-footy-bio-stub