Select Group
The Select Group is a panel of English professional football referees and assistant referees, appointed by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL).
The panel was established in 2001, when referees in England became professional.[1]
Select Group Match Officials
Referees
Assistant Referees
- Simon Beck
- Simon Bennett
- Gary Beswick
- Lee Betts
- Stuart Burt
- Darren Cann
- Dan Cook
- Neil Davies
- Derek Eaton
- Constantine Hatzidakis
- Adrian Holmes
- Nick Hopton
- Ian Hussin
- Peter Kirkup
- Scott Ledger
- Harry Lennard
- Simon Long
- James Mainwaring
- Sian Massey-Ellis
- Adam Nunn
- Marc Perry
- Dan Robathan
- Mark Scholes
- Eddie Smart
- Richard West
- Matthew Wilkes
- Tim Wood
Video Assistant Referees
Assistant Video Assistant Referees
- Simon Beck
- Simon Bennett
- Gary Beswick
- Lee Betts
- Stuart Burt
- Darren Cann
- Stephen Child
- Dan Cook
- Neil Davies
- Derek Eaton
- Andy Garratt
- Andrew Halliday
- Constantine Hatzidakis
- Adrian Holmes
- Nick Hopton
- Ian Hussin
- Peter Kirkup
- Scott Ledger
- Harry Lennard
- Simon Long
- Sian Massey-Ellis
- Adam Nunn
- Marc Perry
- Dan Robathan
- Mark Scholes
- Eddie Smart
- Richard West
- Matthew Wilkes
FIFA International Match Officials
Eight Select Group referees and eleven assistant referees are also on the FIFA International List.[2]
Attwell, Coote, Kavanagh, Madley, Oliver, Pawson, Taylor, and Tierney, serve as international referees.
Bennett, Beswick, Betts, Burt, Cook, Hatzidakis, Hussin, Lennard, Massey-Ellis, Nunn, and Smart, serve as international assistant referees.
Notable International Appointments
Current and former Select Group match officials have overseen some of the most prestigious matches available, these include:
Refereed by Howard Webb, and assisted by Darren Cann and Mike Mullarkey.
Overseen by Webb, Cann, and Mullarkey.
Refereed by Mark Clattenburg, and assisted by Simon Beck and Stephen Child.
Refereed by Martin Atkinson, and assisted by Stephen Child and Mike Mullarkey.
Refereed by Mark Clattenburg, and assisted by Simon Beck and Jake Collin.
Overseen by Clattenburg, Beck, and Collin.
Select Group 2 Match Officials
Referees
- James Adcock
- Darren Bond
- John Brooks
- Andy Davies
- Matthew Donohue
- Leigh Doughty
- Scott Duncan
- Geoff Eltringham
- Jarred Gillett
- Tony Harrington
- Oliver Langford
- James Linington
- Stephen Martin
- Tim Robinson
- Michael Salisbury
- Jeremy Simpson
- Josh Smith
- Keith Stroud
- Gavin Ward
- David Webb
- Dean Whitestone
- Andy Woolmer
Assistant Referees
- Natalie Aspinall
- Nicholas Barnard
- Darren Blunden
- George Byrne
- Ian Cooper
- Philip Dermott
- Mark Dwyer
- Carl Fitch- Jackson
- Matt Foley
- Andrew Fox
- Michael George
- Bhupinder Gill
- Nick Greenhalgh
- Paul Hodskinson
- Akil Howson
- Shaun Hudson
- Jonathan Hunt
- Robert Hyde
- Mark Jones
- Matthew Jones
- Graham Kane
- Daniel Leach
- Sam Lewis
- Nigel Lugg
- Matthew McGrath
- Robert Merchant
- Steven Meredith
- Mark Pottage
- Geoffrey Russell
- Mark Russell
- Rob Smith
- Wade Smith
- Craig Taylor
- Lee Venamore
- Adrian Waters
- Richard Wild
- James Wilson
Former Select Group Referees
Name | Notes |
---|---|
Graham Barber | |
Neale Barry | Head of Refereeing at The Football Association[3] |
Steve Bennett | |
Mark Clattenburg | Head of Officiating at Chinese Football Association and Daily Mail columnist[4][5] |
Phil Dowd | |
Steve Dunn | |
Paul Durkin | |
Andy D'Urso | |
Roger East | |
David Elleray | Technical Director at IFAB[6] |
Chris Foy | |
Dermot Gallagher | |
Mark Halsey | The Sun columnist[7] |
Mike Jones | |
Peter Jones | |
Barry Knight | |
Bobby Madley | |
Matt Messias | |
Graham Poll | |
Lee Probert | |
David Pugh | |
Uriah Rennie | |
Mike Riley | Managing Director of PGMOL[8] |
Keith Stroud | |
Rob Styles | |
Neil Swarbrick | |
Steve Tanner | |
Peter Walton | BT Sport analyst and The Times columnist[9][10] |
Howard Webb | General Manager of PRO[11] |
Alan Wiley | Director of Select Group 2 Referees[12] |
Clive Wilkes | |
Jeff Winter | |
Eddie Wolstenholme |
References
- "Football referees turn professional". BBC Sport. 13 June 2001. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- "2020 FIFA International Refereeing Lists" (PDF).
- "Referees Department".
- "Mark Clattenburg heads to China as head of officiating".
- "Mark Clattenburg".
- "VAR offside decisions under review".
- "Mark Halsey".
- "About PGMOL".
- "VAR is not there to get every decision 100 per cent correct".
- "In brave new world, fans will have to learn how to watch".
- "PRO promotes Howard Webb to General Manager".
- "Referee Director at PGMOL".
External links
- "Chris Kavanagh called upon to officiate in the 2017/18 Premier League".
- "Jones and Swarbrick to call time on careers".
- "Four fresh faces, including two referees, will officiate in 2018/19 after being promoted to Select Group 1".
- "Bobby Madley quits "due to change in personal circumstances"".
- "Child and Halliday to retire as assistant referees".
- "East blows full-time on career as referee".
- "Bankes and Madley promoted for new season".
- "Probert calls time on refereeing career".