Our "Worldreferee 2012": Cüneyt Çakır

Turkish official Cüneyt Çakır (1976) has been elected by this blog's community as this year's best international referee.

After Uzbekistan's Ravshan Irmatov had managed to get this small and inofficial "award", Çakır's semifinal appearance in UEFA Champions League (FC Barcelona - Chelsea), at EURO 2012 having been one of the best officials of the tournament and finally his FIFA Club World Cup final were reasons enough for the majority to vote for him. Colombia's Wilmar Roldán, who had taken charge of 2012 Copa Libertadores final and matches at FIFA Olympic Games, ended on the 2nd place, while UEFA Champions League and UEFA EURO 2012 final referee Pedro Proença of Portugal took the third place.

Our top 3: Çakır (TUR), Roldán (COL), Proença (POR)

A mixture of both achievements and match performances created the basis of the voting. This ranking is aimed at posing a counterpart to the quite narrow-minded IFFHS ranking that is published annually. In addition, it was a main condition to include referees from different confederation into every participant's personal ranking.

The top 10:

1. Cüneyt Çakır - Turkey - 82 points

2. Wilmar Roldán - Colombia - 61 points

3. Pedro Proença - Portugal - 58 points

4. Damir Skomina - Slovenia - 55 points

5. Yuichi Nishimura - Japan - 54 points

6. Felix Brych - Germany - 44 points

7. Bakary Gassama - Gambia - 30 points

8. Roberto García - Mexico - 21 points

9. Dario Ubriaco - Uruguay - 20 points

10. Pavel Královec - Czech Republic - 19 points

On the further places according to achieved points: Benjamin Williams (AUS), Ravshan Irmatov (UZB), Gianluca Rocchi (ITA), Milorad Mazic (SRB), Nicola Rizzoli (ITA), Viktor Kassai (HUN), Howard Webb (ENG), Antonio Arias (PAR), Carlos Vera (ECU), Enrique Osses (CHI), Badara Diatta (SEN), Néstor Pitana (ARG), Daniel Bennett (RSA), Peter O'Leary (NZL), Bouchaib El Ahrach (MAR), Joel Aguilar (SLV), Nawaf Shukralla (BHR)

THIS RANKING IS INOFFICIAL AND MADE BY A SMALL ESSENCE OF THIS BLOG'S FOLLOWERS!