Friday, 12 December 2025
UEFA Referees Categories for the second part of 2025-26 season
The long-awaited time has arrived. UEFA is working at new categories, this time with very significant changes.
Only reliable information will be published in this post, as well as the PDF documents when they will be available.
New UEFA Elite Category Referees
Men
Erik Lambrechts BEL
Christopher Kavanagh ENG
Nicolas Walsh SCO
Sven Jablonski GER
Donatas Rumšas LTU
Rade Obrenović SVN
Women
Emanuela Rusta ALB
New UEFA First Category Referees
Men
Jasper Vergoote BEL
Radoslav Gidzhenov BUL
Patrik Kolarić CRO
Javier Alberola Rojas ESP
Jérémie Pignard FRA
Daniel Schlager GER
Rob Hennessy IRL
Andrea Colombo ITA
Edgars Maļcevs LVA
Ishmael Barbara MLT
Miloš Milanović SRB
Michal Očenáš SVK
Martin Matoša SVN
Oleksii Derevinskiy UKR
Women
Emily Heaslip ENG
Tatyana Sorokopudova KAZ
Filipa Pereira Cunha POR
Milica Milovanović SRB
Anastasya Mylopoulou GRE
Martina Molinaro ITA
María Eugenia Gil Soriano ESPSofiya Prychyna UKR
Karoline Marie Jensen NOR
Vanja Janković SVN
Demotion from Elite to Category 1:
Men
Anastasios Sidiropoulos GRE
