Kateryna Monzul

Kateryna Volodymyrivna Monzul (Ukrainian: Катерина Володимирівна Монзуль; born 5 July 1981) is a Ukrainian football referee.

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Volodymyrivna and the family name is Monzul.

Kateryna Monzul

Full name	Kateryna Volodymyrivna Monzul
Born	(1981-07-05) 5 July 1981 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Domestic
Years	League	Role
2011–	Ukrainian First League	Referee
2016–	Ukrainian Premier League	Referee
International
Years	League	Role
2004–	FIFA listed	Referee

Biography

Monzul is 167 cm (5 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) tall, speaks fluent English, and has a degree in architecture and town planning from Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy.[1] She took charge of her first international match in September 2005, Finland versus Poland in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualififiers.[2] She first refereed in a final tournament at UEFA Women's Euro 2009, while at the 2011 World Cup she served as a fourth official.

The 2013 UEFA Women's Euro's Norway versus Denmark semifinal marked her first performance in a major nations tournament's final stages. The following year she refereed the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. In 2014, she was voted second in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) World's Best Woman Referee poll behind Bibiana Steinhaus.[3]

Monzul refereed the opening match of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, marking her debut in the competition as main referee, in which she awarded a controversial injury time penalty kick to host nation Canada who scored to beat China 1–0.[4] She also refereed the final on 5 July 2015 between the United States and Japan. In 2015, she was named as the IFFHS World’s Best Woman Referee.[5]

On 3 April 2016, Monzul started working in the Ukrainian Premier League, in a match between Chornomorets Odesa and Volyn Lutsk. In doing so, she became the first female referee in the elite men's Ukrainian football division.[6]

In June 2017, Monzul was appointed to be an official at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 in the Netherlands.[7]

On December 3, 2018, it was announced that Monzul had been appointed to be a referee for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.[8] After the conclusion of the round of 16, FIFA announced that Monzul was selected as one of 11 referees who would be assigned to matches during the final 8 matches of the tournament.[9]

International competition record

• Teams in bold progressed past the stage

Women's national teams

Competition	Qualifiers	Group stage	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
2007 FIFA World Cup	Finland 3–1 Poland Belarus 1–2 Iceland
2009 UEFA Euro	Serbia 0–8 France Austria 0–4 Norway Italy 3–0 Hungary	Germany 5–1 France Sweden 1–1 England 0
2011 FIFA World Cup	Israel 1–2 Switzerland Finland 4–1 Portugal France 0–0 Italy Italy 1–0 Switzerland
2013 UEFA Euro	Belgium 0–1 Norway Spain 2–2 Germany Czech Republic 0–2 Denmark Bosnia-Herzegovina 0–2 Poland	Spain 3–2 England Denmark 1–1 Finland 0 0			Norway 1–1 Denmark (4–2 p aet) 0 0 0
2015 FIFA World Cup	Sweden 2–0 Poland Spain 2–0 Italy Netherlands 1–1 Belgium Switzerland 3–0 Iceland Austria 3–1 Finland Germany 2–0 Republic of Ireland Scotland 1–2 Netherlands	Canada 1–0 China PR United States 1–0 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0		Japan 1–0 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0		United States 5–2 Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017 UEFA Euro	Sweden 1–0 Denmark Romania 1–1 Portugal (aet) 0	Denmark 1–0 Belgium Germany 2–1 Italy England 2–1 Portugal			Denmark 0–0 Austria (3–0 p aet) 0 0
2019 FIFA World Cup	Republic of Ireland 0–2 Norway Germany 4–0 Czech Republic Spain 4–0 Austria Netherlands 2–0 Denmark	Germany 1–0 Spain Cameroon 2–1 New Zealand 0 0		France 1–2 United States 0 0 0

References

1. Murzina, Elena (23 January 2012). "Первая девушка-арбитр обставила мужчин" (in Russian). Sobesednik. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
2. "Kateryna MONZUL". FIFA. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
3. "THE WORLD'S BEST WOMAN REFEREE 2014". International Federation of Football History & Statistics. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
4. "Women's World Cup 2015: Controversial penalty gives Canada win". BBC Sport. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
5. "THE WORLD's BEST WOMAN REFEREE 2015". IFFHS Official Website. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
6. "Вперше в історії матч футбольного чемпіонату України судитиме жінка ("The first time a woman will referee a match of Ukrainian Premier League")". TSN.ua. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
7. "Women's EURO referees - the tournament's 17th team". UEFA.com. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
8. FIFA.com. "FIFA Women's World Cup 2019™ - News - Match officials appointed for FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ - FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
9. "Refereeing - Media briefing" (PDF). FIFA.com. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

External links

• Profile at footballzz.com

Preceded by Teodora Albon	2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final Kateryna Monzul	Succeeded by Esther Staubli
Preceded by Bibiana Steinhaus	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final Kateryna Monzul	Succeeded by Stéphanie Frappart