UEFA's Referee Winter Seminar in Lisbon

Lisbon will be the destination of several European top-class match officials who take part in UEFA's traditional winter referee seminar. Parts of the referee committee and 127 UEFA referees are going to attend Portugal's capital from 2 to 6 February.

At the seminar, UEFA normally conducts focused training with their referees in terms of fitness, laws of the game and issues that are on the agenda of urgent or current topics such as dogso cases, free-kick management and penalty area incidents. The speeches will be held by Hugh Dallas, Vlado Sajn and, in the case of female football, by Dagmar Damkova and Bo Karlsson. The pool of referees will furthermore receive instructions and a greeting speech by UEFA's head of refereeing Pierluigi Collina. Werner Helsen will, as usual, be the responsible man for fitness guidelines, while Spaniard Emilio García will deal with the topic of match-fixing. Moreover, a special facet of the seminar are accurate fitness-, body weight- and body fat tests to be done on Wednesday morning. Again, there is no special assistance for UEFA's top referees in the area of personality and soft skills.
The officials are splitted in two seminar blocks. The advanced course (3-6 Feb.) consists of experienced top-class referees mostly belonging to Elite Group and First Group, partly regardless whether they are male or female, while the introductory course (2-6 Feb.) means the international start for those 44 officials who have made their FIFA bow in January 2014.

These referees participate in the seminars:

Advanced Course:
Martin Atkinson (ENG), Olegário Benquerenca (POR), Felix Brych (GER), Cüneyt Cakir (TUR), Mark Clattenburg (ENG), William Collum (SCO), Jonas Eriksson (SWE), David Fernández Borbalán (ESP), Viktor Kassai (HUN), Pavel Královec (CZE), Björn Kuipers (NED), Stéphane Lannoy (FRA), Milorad Mažić (SRB), Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR), Pedro Proenca (POR), Nicola Rizzoli (ITA), Gianluca Rocchi (ITA), Damir Skomina (SVN), Wolfgang Stark (GER), Paolo Tagliavento (ITA), Craig Thomson (SCO), Alberto Undiano (ESP), Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP), Howard Webb (ENG)

Yevhen Aranovskyi (UKR), Firat Aydinus (TUR), Deniz Aytekin (GER), Luca Banti (ITA), Ivan Bebek (CRO), Serhiy Boiko (UKR), Ruddy Buquet (FRA), Sébastien Delferiere (BEL), Aleksei Eskov (RUS), Antony Gautier (FRA), Mattias Gestranius (FIN), Manuel Gräfe (GER), Serge Gumienny (BEL), Tom Hagen (NOR), Kenn Hansen (DEN), Ovidiu Hategan (ROU), Stefan Johannesson (SWE), Matej Jug (SVN), Sergei Karasev (RUS), Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR), Harald Lechner (AUT), Szymon Marciniak (POL), Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP), Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA), Steven McLean (SCO), Bas Nijhuis (NED), Michael Oliver (ENG), Daniele Orsato (ITA), Halis Özkahya (TUR), Anastassios Sidiropoulos (GRE), Artur Soares Dias (POR), Aleksandar Stavrev (MKD), Marijo Strahonja (CRO), Martin Strömbergsson (SWE), Alexandru Tudor (ROU), Clément Turpin (FRA), István Vad (HUN), Pol van Boekel (NED), Slavko Vinčič (SVN), Alon Yefet (ISR), Miroslav Zelinka (CZE), Felix Zwayer (GER)

Jana Adamková (CZE), Teodora Albon (ROU), Christine Baitinger (GER), Cristina Dorcioman (ROU), Gyöngy Gaál (HUN), Kirsi Heikkinen (FIN), Riem Hussein (GER), Katalin Kulcsár (HUN), Pernilla Larsson (SWE), Thalia Mitsi (GRE), Kateryna Monzul (UKR), Jenny Palmqvist (SWE), Morag Pirie (SCO), Silvia Tea Spinelli (ITA), Esther Staubli (SUI), Bibiana Steinhaus (GER), Carina Vitulano (ITA)


Introductory Course:
Zaven Hovhannisyan (ARM), Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT), Erik Lambrechts (BEL), Bart Vertenten (BEL), Edin Jakupovic (BIH), Tsvetan Krastev (BUL), Fran Jovic (CRO), Tihomir Pejin (CRO), Zbynek Proske (CZE), Jens Maae (DEN), Anders Poulsen (DEN), Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP), Alejandro José Hernández Hernández (ESP), Ville Nevalainen (FIN), Benoît Bastien (FRA), Benoît Millot (FRA), Bastian Dankert (GER), Tobias Stieler GER), Paul McLaughlin (IRL), Roy Reinshreiber (ISR), Marco Guida (ITA), Davide Massa (ITA), Alexandru Tean (MDA), Bartosz Frankowski (POL), Tomasz Musial (POL), Sergei Ivanov (RUS), Paul Robertson (SCO), Bojan Pandzic (SWE)

Julia-Stefanie Baier (AUT), Farida Lutfaliyeva (AZE), Lois Otte (BEL), Galiya Echeva (BUL), Ivana Martincic (CRO), Eliska Kralovec-Kramlova (CZE), Ifeoma Kulmala (FIN), Eleni Antoniou (GRE), Valentina Garoffolo (ITA), Justina Lavrenovaite (LTU), Viola Raudzina (LVA), Irena Velevackoska (MKD), Henrikke Nervik (NOR), Kseniya Goryacheva (RUS), Aleksandra Cesen (SVN), Liudmyla Telbukh (UKR)