Daniel Siebert will referee v within the closing in Budapest.
The German official has been appointed by the Uefa Referees Committee and shall be tasked with officiating one of many largest video games in soccer on the Puskas Area on Saturday, 30 Might.
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The 42-year-old has 11 years of expertise since starting his profession in 2015 and brings expertise from 9 Uefa Champions League matches from this season alone.
Siebert was the referee within the quarter-final first leg between Sporting Lisbon and Arsenal, considered one of two video games officiated this time period with the Gunners, who ran out 1-0 winners on that night time.
He was additionally in cost within the semi-final second leg between Arsenal and , one other 1-0 win for the Gunners, which can enchantment to Gunners followers forward of the match.
Siebert is but to indicate a yellow card to an Arsenal participant, and has proven simply three yellow playing cards throughout each matches. Whereas he has additionally officiated one PSG match this season; the goalless draw at in December, the place he brandished 4 yellow playing cards.
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Siebert averages extra yellow playing cards on common total, with 4.44 per recreation from 9 video games within the Champions League this time period, based on Who Scored, and 0.22 crimson playing cards per recreation. That is up from his Bundesliga common, from 15 video games this time period, with 3.20 yellow playing cards per recreation and 0.13 crimson playing cards per recreation.
Additional expertise comes from final 12 months’s Uefa Europa League semi-final between and Athletic Bilbao, and he additionally officiated two video games on the Uefa Euro 2024 and three video games at Uefa Euro 2020.
Following Arsenal’s victory over , and the high-profile VAR incident that dominated out Wilson’s equaliser for the Hammers, Mikel Arteta has publicly confessed his admiration for the stress officers function underneath.
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Notably Chris Kavanagh and the way he noticed 17 replays over 4 minutes and 17 seconds earlier than deciding to rule out the objective because of Pablo’s arm impeding .
“After I needed to be vital, I’ve been,” Arteta informed Sky Sports activities. “At the moment I’ve to congratulate them [VAR]. You wanted a whole lot of braveness and bravado to face out and give the chance to the referee to take a look on the motion.
“If you see the image, there isn’t any query that it’s a clear foul. They had been very courageous. The motion deserved that. For my part, it is vitally clear. They’re the principles and we ask for consistency.”
Referee Daniel Siebert gestures throughout Sporting v Arsenal within the Champions League quarter-finals (Getty Pictures)
Uefa Champions League closing 2026 refereeing group
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)
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Assistants: Jan Seidel and Rafael Foltyn (each from Germany)
4th Official: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)
Reserve AR: Guadalupe Porras Ayuso (Spain)
VAR: Bastian Dankert (Germany)
Assistant VAR: Robert Schröder (Germany)
VAR Assist: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (Spain)