Every referee selected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup

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Every referee selected for the 2026 FIFA World Cupby Mark SchofieldJun 11, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JUNE 29: Referee Wilton Sampaio gestures during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 round of 16 match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami CF at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on June 29, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Marcio Machado/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) Getty ImagesMark Schofield is a former college quarterback and attorney covering the NFL and F1.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway later today, when host nation Mexico takes on South Africa in the opening match.

That begins a long march to the World Cup Final, and with an expanded 48-team field, that means more matches.

And more referees.

Here is a full list of the referees, assistant referees, and video referees at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Who are the head referees at the 2026 World Cup?

52 referees were selected for the 2026 World Cup. The majority of them, 15 in all, are from UEFA countries. That includes Szymon Marciniak from Poland, who was the referee for the 2022 World Cup Final.

This list includes 12 referees from CONMEBOL and nine from CONCACAF. New Zealand’s Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh is the lone OAF referee.

This list also includes Omar Abdulkadir Artan from Somalia, who was denied entry into the United States. While Canadian politicians have offered that he could referee matches in Canada, at the time of publication it is unclear if that will be arranged.

Referee

Nation

Confederation

Omar Al AliUACAFCAbdulrahman Al-JassimQatarAFCKhalid Al-TuraisSaudi ArabiaAFCAlireza FaghaniAustraliaAFCMa NingChinaAFCAdham MakhadmehJordanAFCIlgiz TantashevUzbekistanAFCYusuke ArakiJapanAFCOmar Abdulkadir ArtanSomaliaCAFPierre AtchoGabonCAFDahane BeidaMauritaniaCAFMustapha GhorbalAlgeriaCAFJalal JayedMoroccoCAFAmin Mohamed OmarEgyptCAFAbongile TomSouth AfricaCAFIván BartonEl SalvadorCONCACAFJuan Gabriel CalderónCosta RicaCONCACAFIsmail ElfathUnited StatesCONCACAFOshane NationJamaicaCONCACAFDrew FisherCanadaCONCACAFKatia Itzel GarcíaMexicoCONCACAFSaíd MartínezHondurasCONCACAFTori PensoUnited StatesCONCACAFCésar Arturo RamosMexicoCONCACAFRamon AbattiBrazilCONMEBOLJuan Gabriel BenítezParaguayCONMEBOLRaphael ClausBrazilCONMEBOLYael FalcónArgentinaCONMEBOLCristián GarayChileCONMEBOLDarío HerreraArgentinaCONMEBOLKevin OrtegaPeruCONMEBOLAndrés RojasColombiaCONMEBOLWilton SampaioBrazilCONMEBOLGustavo TejeraUruguayCONMEBOLFacundo TelloArgentinaCONMEBOLJesús ValenzuelaVenezuelaCONMEBOLCampbell-Kirk Kawana-WaughNew ZealandOFCEspen EskåsNorwayUEFAAlejandro Hernández HernándezSpainUEFAIstván KovácsRomaniaUEFAFrançois LetexierFranceUEFADanny MakkelieNetherlandsUEFASzymon MarciniakPolandUEFAMaurizio MarianiItalyUEFAGlenn NybertSwedenUEFAMichael OliverEnglandUEFAJoão PinheiroPortugalUEFASandro SchärerSwitzerlandUEFAAnthony TaylorEnglandUEFAClément TurpinFranceUEFASlavko VinčićSloveniaUEFAFeliz ZwayerGermanyUEFA

Who are the assistant referees at the 2026 World Cup?

All told, 88 referees were selected as assistant referees for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. All six confederations are represented.

12 of the assistant referees come from the AFC, while 11 come from the CAF. CONCACAF has 15 assistant referees at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, including four from the United States (Corey Parker, Kyle Atkins, Kathryn Nesbitt, and Brooke Mayo), two from Canada, and three from Mexico.

Once again UEFA has the most assistant referees, with 29, while Isaac Trevis is the lone representative from the OFC.

Referee

Nation

Confederation

Moahmed Al-HammadiUAEAFCTaleb Al-MarriQatarAFCSaud Al-MaqalehQatarAFCMohammed Al-BakrySaudi ArabiaAFCGeorge LakrindisAustraliaAFCJames LindsayAustraliaAFCZhou FeiChinaAFCMohammad Al-KalafJordanAFCAhmad Al-RoalleJordanAFCTimur GaynullinUzebekistanAFCAndrey TsapenkiUzbekistanAFCJun MiharaJapanAFCElvis NoupueCameroonCAFBoris DitsogaGabonCAFAmos Abeigne NdongGabonCAFJerson Emiliano dos SantosAngolaCAFMokrane GourariAlgeriaCAFAbbes Akram ZerhouniAlgeriaCAFZakaria BrinsiMoroccoCAFMostafa AkarkadMoroccoCAFMahmoud AbouregalEgyptCAFAhmed Hossam TahaEgyptCAFZakhele SiwelaSouth AfricaCAFDavid MoranEl SalvadorCONCACAFHenry PupiroNicaraguaCONCACAFJuan Carlos MoraCosta RicaCONCACAFCorey ParkerUnited StatesCONCACAFKyle AtkinsUnited StatesCONCACAFCaleb WalesTrinidad and TobagoCONCACAFLyes ArfaCanadaCONCACAFMicheal BarwegenCanadaCONCACAFSandra RamirezMexicoCONCACAFWalter LopezHondurasCONCACAFChristían RamirezHondurasCONCACAFKathryn NesbittUnited StatesCONCACAFBrooke MayoUnited StatesCONCACAFAlberto MorinMexicoCONCACAFMarco BisguerraMexicoCONCACAFRafael AlvesBrazilCONMEBOLDanilo ManisBrazilCONMEBOLEduardo CardozoParaguayCONMEBOLMilciades SalvidarParaguayCONMEBOLRodrigo FigueiredoBrazilCONMEBOLFacundo RodrguezArgentinaCONMEBOLMaxmiliano Del YessoArgentinaCONMEBOLJose RetamalChileCONMEBOLMiguel RochaChileCONMEBOLCristian NavarroArgentinaCONMEBOLMichael OruePeruCONMEBOLAlexander GuzmanColombiaCONMEBOLBruno BoschiliaBrazilCONMEBOLBruno PiresBrazilCONMEBOLNicholas TaranUruguayCONMEBOLCarlos BarreiroUruguayCONMEBOLJuan Pablo MelattiArgentinaCONMEBOLGabriel ChadeArgentinaCONMEBOLJorge UrregoVenezuelaCONMEBOLTulio MorenoVenezuelaCONMEBOLIsaac TrevisNew ZealandOFCJan Erik EnganNorwayUEFAIsaak BashevkinNorwayUEFAJose Enrique Naranjo PerezNorwayUEFADiego Sanchez RojoNorwayUEFAMihai Marius MaricaRomaniaUEFAFerencz TunyogiRomaniaUEFACyril MugnierFranceUEFAMehdi RahmouniFranceUEFAHessel SteegstraNetherlandsUEFAJan de VriesNetherlandsUEFATomasz ListkiewiczPolandUEFAAdam KupsikPolandUEFADaniele BindoniItalyUEFAAlberto TegoniItalyUEFAMahob BeigiSwedenUEFAAndreas SoderkvistSwedenUEFAStuart BurtEnglandUEFAJames MainwatingEnglandUEFABruno JesusPortugalUEFALuciano MaiaPortugalUEFAStephane De AlmeidaSwitzerlandUEFAGary BeswickEnglandUEFAAdam NummEnglandUEFANicholas DanosFranceUEFABenjamin PagesFranceUEFATomasz KlancnikSloveniaUEFAAndraz KovacicSloveniaUEFARobert KempterGermanyUEFAChristian DietzGermanyUEFA

Who are the VAR officials for the 2026 World Cup?

As we outlined earlier, there will be more VAR opportunities at the 2026 World Cup.

As such, FIFA has assigned 30 video match officials for this year’s World Cup. Five confederations are represented here, as OAF does not have a video match official for the 2026 World Cup.

Referee

Nation

Confederation

Khamis Al-MarriQatarAFCAbudallah Al-ShehriSaudi ArabiaAFCShaun EvansAustraliaAFCFu MingChinaAFCMohammed Obaid KhadimUAEAFCMahmoud AshourEgyptCAFHamza El FariqMoroccoCAFJoe DickersonUnited StatesCONCACAFArmando VillarrealUnited StatesCONCACAFErick MirandaMexicoCONCACAFGuillermo PachecoMexicoCONCACAFTatiana GuzmanNicaraguaCONCACAFJuan LaraChileCONMEBOLHernan MastrangeloArgentinaCONMEBOLAntonio GarciaUruguayCONMEBOLLeodan GonzalezUruguayCONMEBOLJuan SotoVenezuelaCONMEBOLNicolas GalloColombiaCONMEBOLRodolpho ToskiBrazilCONMEBOLJerome BrisardFranceUEFAWilly DelajodFranceUEFABastian DankertGermanyUEFACarlos del Cerro GrandeSpainUEFAMarco Di BelloItalyUEFAIvan BebekCroatiaUEFAJarred GillettEnglandUEFADennis HiglerNetherlandsUEFATomasz KwiatkowskiPolandUEFABram Van DriesscheBelgiumUEFAFedayi SanSwitzerlandUEFA

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