Donald Robertson (born 1 January 1987) is a Scottish
football referee
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. He began refereeing in 2011,
and has been a
FIFA referee since 2017. Before his refereeing career, Robertson was a player with
Partick Thistle
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,
Queen's Park and
St. Mirren.
Career
Don Robertson first began refereeing in 2011. Since then (as of June 2020), he has made 268 refereeing appearances, given 790
yellow cards
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and 51
red cards.
Robertson was chosen to referee the first Qualifying round of the
UEFA Champions League
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in 2019. The game took place on 9 July 2019 in
Tallinn
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,
Estonia
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between
Nõmme Kalju FC
Nõmme Kalju FC (), commonly known as Nõmme Kalju, or simply as Kalju (Estonian: "rock" or "cliff"), is an Estonian professional football club, based in Nõmme, Tallinn, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. T ...
and
KF Shkëndija
Klubi i Futbollit Shkëndija () commonly known as Shkëndija, is a football club based in Tetovo, North Macedonia. Their home stadium is Ecolog Arena and they currently play in the Macedonian First League. In the 2010–11 season of the Mace ...
. KF Shkëndija won 0–1.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robertson, Don
1987 births
Living people
Scottish football referees
UEFA Champions League referees
Scottish Professional Football League referees