UEFA Referees – Promotions and Demotions 2014/2015

Men

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Deniz Aytekin (GER, photo), Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP).

Retired from Elite: Olegario Benquerenca (POR), Stephane Lannoy (FRA), Wolfgang Stark (GER), Howard Webb (ENG).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Tamas Bognar (HUN), Christian Dingert (GER), Oliver Drachta (AUT), Javier Estrada Fernandez (ESP), Clayton Pisani (MLT), Artur Soares Dias (POR), Anthony Taylor (ENG), Tobias Welz (GER).

Demoted from First Category to Second Category: Antony Gautier (FRA).

Removed from FIFA List (First Category): Firat Aydinus (TUR), Bulent Yildirim (TUR).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Anatoliy Abdula (UKR), Alexandre Boucaut (BEL), Sebastian Coltescu (ROU), Svein-Erik Edvartsen (NOR), Andreas Ekberg (SWE), Orel Grinfeeld (ISR), Sergey Ivanov (RUS), Mete Kalkavan (TUR), Jonathan Lardot (BEL), Christos Nicolaides (CYP), Alan Sant (MLT), Andris Treimanis (LVA).

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Oleksandr Derdo (UKR), Mihaly Fabian (HUN).

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Amaury Delerue (FRA), Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP), Craig Pawson (ENG), Daniel Siebert (GER).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE), Adrian Azzopardi (MLT), Andrew Dallas (SCO), Alain Durieux (LUX), Adam Farkas (HUN), Richard Harrington (WAL), Milan Ilic (SRB), Denis Izmailov (KAZ), Srdjan Jovanovic (SRB), Charalambos Kalogeropoulos (GRE), Giorgi Kruashvili (GEO), Nicolas Laforge (BEL), Tiago Lopes Martins (POR), Orkhan Mammadov (AZE), Tim Marshall (NIR), Dimitrios Massias (CYP), Ola Hobber Nilsen (NOR), Dominik Ouschan (AUT), Tolga Özkalfa (TUR), Ali Palabiyik (TUR), Erez Papir (ISR), Irfan Peljto (BIH), Sandro Schärer (SUI), Roomer Tarajev (EST), Vilhjalmur Thorarinnsson (ISL).

Women

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Sandra Braz Bastos (POR), Stéphanie Frappart (FRA), Monika Mularczyk (POL).

Retired from Elite: Christine Baitinger (GER), Jenny Palmqvist (SWE).

Demoted from Elite to First Category: Kirsi Heikkinen (FIN).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Florence Guillemin (FRA), Marija Kurtes (GER), Lina Lehtovaara (FIN), Marte Soro (NOR), Eszter Urban (HUN).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Lorraine Clark (SCO), Tania Fernandes Morais (LUX), Kseniya Goryachev (RUS).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Ewa Augustyn (POL), Charlotte Carpenter (WAL), Cathrine Eide (NOR), Liliya Hasanova (KAZ), Frida Klarlund Nielsen (DEN), Yuliya Larionova (AZE), Katarzyna Lisiecka-Sęk (POL), Jurgita Mačikunytė (LTU), Neslihan Muratdağı (TUR), Vera Onica (MDA), Hannelore Onsea (BEL), Vera Opeikina (RUS), Tess Petersson (SWE), Anastasiya Romanyuk (UKR), Ana Soares Aguiar (POR), Angelika Soeder (GER), Sandra Strub (SUI), Bojana Tosic (BIH), Volha Tsiareshka (BLR).


Futsal

Promoted from First Category to Elite: Gabor Kovacs (HUN), Admir Zahovic (SVN).

Demoted from Elite to First Category: Balasz Farkas (HUN), Borut Sivic (SVN).

Promoted from Second Category to First Category: Vyacheslav Daharan (UKR), Tomasz Frank (POL).

Promoted from Third Category to Second Category: Vasileios Christodoulis (GRE), Juan José Cordero Gallardo (ESP), Nicola Maria Manzione (ITA), Miguel Oliveira Castilho (POR), Ruben Pinto Guerreiro (POR), Barry Weijers (NED).

Demoted from Second Category to Third Category: Abdallah Benazzi (NED), Epaminondas Stamoulis (GRE).

New FIFA Referees promoted directly to Second Category: Gregor Kovacic (SVN), Alejandro Martínez Flores (ESP), Petr Zdenek (CZE).

New FIFA Referees entered in Third Category: Igor Babovic (SWE), Victor Berg (FRA), David Berry (IRL), Kaloyan Kirilov (BUL), Inguns Purins (LVA), David Schaerli (SUI), Zoran Sofrenic (BIH), Adrian Tschopp (SUI), Yaroslav Vovchok (UKR), Stefan Vrijens (BEL), Andrzej Witkowski (POL).