FIFA World Cup referees
FIFA World Cup referees are FIFA international referees who officiate at the FIFA World Cup matches.
World Cup Final Match Officials
By Country
As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final, 33 countries have been represented in the officials body of the FIFA World Cup Final.| Country | Total | Referees | Assistant Referees | Reserve Referees | Reserve Assistant Referees | VARs | Assistant VARs |
| 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals: | 75 | 20 | 40 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
By Confederation
World Cup Final Related Conclusions
As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final,- 88% of match officials have come from the UEFA and CONMEBOL confederations.
- 90% of referees have come from UEFA and CONMEBOL.
- 90% of assistant referees have come from UEFA and CONMEBOL.
- 60% of referees have come from five nations. These nations are: Argentina, Brazil, England, France, and Italy.
- The AFC has never had a World Cup Final referee.
- The OFC has never had a World Cup Final match official.
- All 18 match officials between 1934 and 1966 came from UEFA.
- Approximately 92.8% of match officials for the 2002 to 2018 finals have come from UEFA and CONMEBOL.
Number of matches
9 matches:
8 matches:
7 matches:
- John Langenus
- Sandy Griffiths
- Juan Gardeazábal Garay
- Ali Bujsaim
- Carlos Eugênio Simon
- Frank de Bleeckere
- Marco Rodríguez Moreno
- Björn Kuipers
- Ivan Eklind
- Arthur Ellis
- Nikolay Latyshev
- Jamal Al Sharif
- Arturo Brizio Carter
- Gamal Al-Ghandour
- Óscar Ruiz Acosta
- Roberto Rosetti
- Howard Webb
- Mark Geiger
- Sandro Meira Ricci
- Cüneyt Çakır
- István Zsolt
- Gottfried Dienst
- Arturo Yamasaki Maldonado
- Ramón Barreto Ruiz
- Abraham Klein
- Nicolae Rainea
- Michel Vautrot
- Peter Mikkelsen
- Kurt Röthlisberger
- Mario van der Ende
- Pierluigi Collina
- Kim Milton Nielsen
- Markus Merk
- Ľuboš Micheľ
- Carlos Batres González
- Horacio Elizondo
- Milorad Mažić
- Wilmar Roldán Pérez
- Rinaldo Barlassina
- Reginald Leafe
- Paul Wyssling
- Maurice Guigue
- Albert Dusch
- Pierre Schwinte
- Rudolf Scheurer
- Jack Taylor
- Károly Palotai
- Erik Fredriksson
- Luigi Agnolin
- George Courtney
- Siegfried Kirschen
- Zoran Petrović
- José Roberto Ramiz Wright
- Sándor Puhl
- José Torres Cadena
- Hugh Dallas
- Urs Meier
- Vítor Melo Pereira
- Toru Kamikawa
- Graham Poll
- Luis Medina Cantalejo
- Massimo Busacca
- Héctor Baldassi
- Viktor Kassai
- Djamel Haimoudi
- Nicola Rizzoli
- Nawaf Shukralla
- Alireza Faghani
- Giovanni Galeati
- Vincenzo Orlandini
- Leo Horn
- Kurt Tschenscher
- Rudi Glöckner
- Vital Loraux
- Ángel Coerezza
- Erich Linemayr
- Clive Thomas
- Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
- Charles Corver
- António da Silva Garrido
- Alexis Ponnet
- Juan Cardellino de San Vicente
- Romualdo Arppi Filho
- Carlos Silva Valente
- Edgardo Codesal Méndez
- Neji Jouini
- Rodrigo Sequeira Badilla
- Alberto Tejada Noriega
- Said Belqola
- José María García-Aranda Encinar
- Epifanio González Chaves
- Saad Mane
- Felipe Ramos Rizo
- Coffi Codjia
- Mark Shield
- Carlos Amarilla Demarqui
- Valentin Ivanov
- Shamsul Maidin
- Olegário Faustino Benquerença
- Wolfgang Stark
- Alberto Undiano Mallenco
- Jonas Eriksson
- Pedro Proença
- Carlos Velasco Carballo
- Ben Williams
- Joel Aguilar Chicas
- Felix Brych
- Andrés Cunha Soca
- Malang Diedhiou
- César Ramos Palazuelos
- Gianluca Rocchi
- Damir Skomina