Cansu Tiryaki (born 1990), misspelled as Cansu Tryak, is a Turkish FIFA listed football referee. She is a native of

Edirne Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...

, Turkey, where she works as a school teacher.

Personal life

Cansu Tiryaki was born in

, Turkey in 1990. She was married to Yusuf Tiryaki, a former

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, who died after a heart attack in March 2023. She works as a primary school teacher in

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Officiating career

Domestic

Tiryaki started her officiating career as an

in the 2011-12 Turkish Women's First Football League match on 3 December 2011. She served in this position in various league levels such as Amateur Second Division (2012–2014), Regional Amateur League (2012–2015), Amatreur Division (2013),

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(2013–2014) and U21 League (2014). Her promotion to referee status was in a U21 League match on 29 August 2015. She officiated from then on in the Regional Amateur League and U21 League. In an U21 League match played on 20 September 2015, she served for the first time as a

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. She is still appointed in this position also in the TFF Third League matches. As of 15 March 2020, Tiryaki officiated a total of 84 matches in different roles.

International

Tiryaki debuted internationally in the friendly boys' U16 match between Turkey and Georgia on 12 April 2018. She was named FIFA listed referee for 2018, 2019 and 2020. She served at the 2019 ISF World Schools Championship Football in

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, Serbia. She officiated in two matches at the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification matches in Machico, Madeira and Camacha, Portugal. At the second leg match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League - Round of 32 between

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and KFF Mitrovica on 25 September 2019, she served as the fourth official. She was the fourth official of the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying Group B match between

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and

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on 10 March 2020. On 3 September that year, she officiated the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying Group B match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Malta held in

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, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

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