Referees, 2018 only.
Match officials who worked the 2018 World Cup. Click any row for their full career history across every WC they officiated.
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Countries represented
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2018 referees
28 referees| # | Referee | Country | Matches | WCs | Span | Knockout matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ravshan Irmatov |  Uzbekistan | 11 | 3 | 2010–2018 | SFQF ×2 |
| 2 | Néstor Pitana |  Argentina | 9 | 2 | 2014–2018 | FQF ×2R16 |
| 3 | Björn Kuipers |  Netherlands | 7 | 2 | 2014–2018 | QFR16 ×2 |
| 4 | César Arturo Ramos |  Mexico | 7 | 2 | 2018–2022 | SFR16 ×2 |
| 5 | Alireza Faghani |  Iran | 6 | 2 | 2018–2022 | 3rdR16 |
| 6 | Cüneyt Çakır |  Turkey | 6 | 2 | 2014–2018 | SF ×2 |
| 7 | Mark Geiger |  United States | 6 | 2 | 2014–2018 | R16 ×2 |
| 8 | Sandro Ricci |  Brazil | 6 | 2 | 2014–2018 | QFR16 |
| 9 | Antonio Mateu Lahoz |  Spain | 5 | 2 | 2018–2022 | QF |
| 10 | Clément Turpin |  France | 5 | 2 | 2018–2022 | R16 |
| 11 | Milorad Mažić |  Serbia | 5 | 2 | 2014–2018 | QF |
| 12 | Szymon Marciniak |  Poland | 5 | 2 | 2018–2022 | FR16 |
| 13 | Nawaf Shukralla | Bahrain | 4 | 2 | 2014–2018 | none |
| 14 | Wilmar Roldán |  Colombia | 4 | 2 | 2014–2018 | none |
| 15 | Andrés Cunha |  Uruguay | 3 | 1 | 2018 | SF |
| 16 | Bakary Gassama | Gambia | 3 | 3 | 2014–2022 | none |
| 17 | Damir Skomina |  Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 2018 | R16 |
| 18 | Felix Brych |  Germany | 3 | 2 | 2014–2018 | none |
| 19 | Gianluca Rocchi |  Italy | 3 | 1 | 2018 | R16 |
| 20 | Janny Sikazwe | Zambia | 3 | 2 | 2018–2022 | none |
| 21 | Joel Aguilar |  El Salvador | 3 | 2 | 2014–2018 | none |
| 22 | Malang Diedhiou |  Senegal | 3 | 1 | 2018 | R16 |
| 23 | Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed |  United Arab Emirates | 3 | 2 | 2018–2022 | none |
| 24 | Enrique Cáceres |  Paraguay | 2 | 1 | 2018 | none |
| 25 | Matthew Conger |  New Zealand | 2 | 2 | 2018–2022 | none |
| 26 | Gehad Grisha |  Egypt | 1 | 1 | 2018 | none |
| 27 | Jair Marrufo | United States | 1 | 1 | 2018 | none |
| 28 | Sergei Karasev |  Russia | 1 | 1 | 2018 | none |
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