Euro 2024 Referee Profiles: Officials, Stats and VAR rules

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·14 May 2024

Euro 2024 Referee Profiles: Officials, Stats and VAR rules

Euro 2024 is drawing ever closer and the list of officials who will take charge of matches has been revealed. Find out which referees have been selected and which roles they will take up.

Referees

19 officials have been selected to referee matches at Euro 2024, 18 coming from European nations and one from Argentina as part of a co-operation agreement between UEFA and CONMEBOL.

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Referees have been appointed by UEFA on a match-by-match basis. The selections were chosen from the international list and will not be able to lead matches from their own nations group.

Assistant Referees

38 assistant referees have been selected to run the line at Euro 2024. 36 of these come from Europe with two joining from CONMEBOL nation, Argentina.

VAR Officials

20 VAR Officials have been selected to act as Video Match Officials at Euro 2024. They won’t be able to act as officials for matches from their own nations group.

In addition, twelve ‘Support Match Officials’ have been selected at Euro 2024. They will act as fourth officials or reserve assistant referees and have been selected from UEFA nations. These nations are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Ukraine.

VAR will be in full operation for Euro 2024 and there has been one major change in how Video Assistance will work in Germany. Referees will relay all information about decisions made by VAR to the on-field captain for both nations that are playing, ensuring that players have the full information about how, and why, a decision was reached.

There will also be a decrease in the amount of time it takes to come to offside decisions made by VAR, thanks to cutting edge technology in the match balls as well as the continuation of the semi-automated offside technology used at the 2022 World Cup. UEFA are hoping this leads to an average decision time of around 25 seconds, compared to the average of 70 seconds that offside decisions have taken to be made in the Premier League this season.