This article is about the official in a variety of sports. For the similar term in other sports, see Umpire. For other uses, see Referee (disambiguation).
An ice hockey referee
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titles depending on the sport, including umpire, judge, arbiter (chess), commissaire, or technical official (by the International Olympic Committee). Referees may be assisted by umpires, linesmen, timekeepers, touch judges, or video review officials.
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions...
The Select Group is a panel of English professional football referees and assistant referees, appointed by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL)...
A match referee is an official appointed to oversee professional cricket matches. Match referees for Test matches and One Day Internationals are appointed...
international referees. Years in brackets indicate when the referee was added to the FIFA International Referees List. Current referees are at the top...
Football referee may refer to the following articles Official (American football) Official (Canadian football) Referee (association football) Umpire (Australian...
The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who assists the referee by reviewing decisions using video footage and providing...
The Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Referees is composed of former international cricket players who are appointed by the ICC to oversee all Test match, One...
Father William Sean Collum (born 18 January 1979) is a Scottish football referee. and current Chairman of The John Beaton Rangers supporters club and has...
equal referees. Some national bodies allow games with only a single referee in special cases like illness on short notice. Should the referees disagree...
thereby forcing the referee to call an end to the fight. In contrast, a technical knockout (TKO) may only be declared by the referee or ringside doctor...
Referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA) oversee 120 pre-season games, 1,260 regular season games, and four rounds of playoff matches. These...
league referees who have appeared in Australian top-level rugby league, i.e. the NRL and its predecessors, the NSWRL, ARL and SL premierships. Referees still...
announced the list of 36 referees, 69 assistant referees, and 24 video assistant referees for the tournament. Of the 36 referees, FIFA included two each...
Refcam (also known as Referee cam or Umpire cam) is a special type of broadcast point-of-view camera used in sports and worn by a referee or umpire during...
English football referees officiate matches in English football. The referees officiate matches that range from local football to Premier League matches...
published a list of 52 prospective referees, each paired, on the basis of nationality, with two assistant referees, from all six football confederations...
the referee, the referee will demand that the offending wrestler break the hold and start counting to five if the wrestler does not. If the referee reaches...
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