Referee-Ranking for UEFA referees, 2011 (state: 25/11/2011)

the probable no.1 in 2011: Björn Kuipers (NED)

I have made a ranking for all the Elite and Elite Development referees in UEFA zone. The list is made up of an ingenious system which takes both into consideration - appointments and perfomances, although the perfomances count a bit more (something around 1/3 - 2/3). Of course, a CL semifinal counts more than BATE-Plzen, I know that every referee prepares for every match and that every match can be hard. However, the list should indicate what UEFA thinks of their referees and for this reason, better matches in a processed stage of a competition are rated higher. Only matches of UEFA club competitions and UEFA national team competitions are regarded! The whole year 2011 is the basis (= 2nd half of season 2010/2011, 1st half of the current season). It is not only me who evaluated the perfomances, it is you who have created the basis of this ranking as I have taken the average of all the marks given to the respective perfomance (at least mostly it is the average :))..

You may comment the results.

Viktor Kassai is - at the moment - the no.1. But if Kassai is not appointed on CL MD6 and Kuipers manages to show a perfomance better than 3,0 (:D), then Kuipers will be the no.1 of 2011 without any doubt.
This list is of course only tentative, there can be some changes on the last matchdays, I am going to publish the complete 2011 list as some kind of Christmas gift.

I have to publish it now because I do not know when exactly Mr Collina is going to publish his Euro 2012 list. Therefore, I want to indicate a probable Euro 2012 list with your, my, our ranking. Here it is:

Elite Group:

#	REFEREE	ORIGIN	DOB	POINTS
1	KASSAI Viktor	Hungary	1975	938,6
2	KUIPERS Björn	Netherlands	1973	900,4
3	BRYCH Felix	Germany	1975	834,5
4	RIZZOLI Nicola	Italy	1971	828,8
5	STARK Wolfgang	Germany	1969	823,5
6	ERIKSSON Jonas	Sweden	1974	812,0
7	PROENCA Pedro	Portugal	1970	804,7
8	THOMSON Craig	Scotland	1972	747,3
9	ATKINSON Martin	England	1971	713,2
10	DE BLEECKERE Frank	Belgium	1966	694,1
11	ROCCHI Gianluca	Italy	1973	651,2
12	SKOMINA Damir	Slovenia	1976	647,9
13	VELASCO Carlos	Spain	1971	646,4
14	WEBB Howard	England	1971	644,8
15	CAKIR Cuneyt	Turkey	1976	579,0
16	BENQUERENCA Olegário	Portugal	1969	575,8
17	MOEN Svein Oddvar	Norway	1979	549,3
18	MEYER Florian	Germany	1968	483,3
19	BLOM Kevin	Netherlands	1974	469,3
20	UNDIANO Alberto	Spain	1973	448,4
21	LANNOY Stéphane	France	1969	436,3
22	DUHAMEL Laurent	France	1968	374,0
23	NIKOLAEV Aleksei	Russia	1971	345,5

Elite Development Group:

#	REFEREE	ORIGIN	DOB	POINTS
1	TAGLIAVENTO Paolo	Italy	1972	608,2
2	KRALOVEC Pavel	Czech Republic	1977	560,5
3	SCHÖRGENHOFER Robert	Austria	1973	535,8
4	GRÄFE Manuel	Germany	1973	494,1
5	COLLUM William	Scotland	1979	476,5
6	CLATTENBURG Mark	England	1975	398,8
7	GUMIENNY Serge	Belgium	1972	381,8
8	KELLY Alan	Ireland	1975	370,5
9	CHAPRON Tony	France	1972	361,0
10	JOHANNESSON Stefan	Sweden	1971	284,3
11	EINWALLER Thomas	Austria	1977	142,5

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