World Cup stories: Which referees will be officiating at the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

This summer's FIFA World Cup is the biggest-ever variant of the tournament, with 48 teams heading to the USA, Canada and Mexico for the footballing festivities. 

With 104 matches set to take place across the finals, FIFA has now announced the selected match officials who will take charge of proceedings in North America, in what they called the most comprehensive line-up of match officials in FIFA World Cup history.

Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver are the two Premier League names who will be heading to North America, alongside a pool that have been chosen "based on quality and consistency of performances at the highest level".

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Who are the referees for the 2026 FIFA World Cup? 

A total of 52 referees, 88 assistant referees and 30 video match officials have been selected for the finals, with six female officials, the same as at Qatar 2022. 

 Referees 

• Abdulrahman AL JASSIM
• Khalid AL TURAIS
• Yusuke ARAKI
• Omar Abdulkadir ARTAN
• Pierre ATCHO
• Ivan BARTON
• Dahane BEIDA
• Juan Gabriel BENITEZ
• Juan CALDERON
• Raphael CLAUS
• Ismail ELFATH
• Espen ESKAS
• Alireza FAGHANI
• Yael FALCON PEREZ
• Drew FISCHER
• Cristian GARAY
• Katia GARCIA
• Mustapha GHORBAL
• Alejandro HERNANDEZ
• Dario HERRERA
• Jalal JAYED
• Campbell-Kirk KAWANA-WAUGH
• Istvan KOVACS
• Francois LETEXIER
• Ning MA
• Adham MAKHADMEH
• Danny MAKKELIE
• Szymon MARCINIAK
• Maurizio MARIANI
• Hector Said MARTINEZ
• Amin MOHAMED
• Oshane NATION
• Glenn NYBERG
• Michael OLIVER
• Omar AL ALI
• Kevin ORTEGA
• Tori PENSO
• Joao PINHEIRO
• Ramon ABATTI
• Cesar RAMOS
• Andres ROJAS
• Sandro SCHAERER
• Ilgiz TANTASHEV
• Anthony TAYLOR
• Gustavo TEJERA
• Facundo TELLO
• Abongile TOM
• Clement TURPIN
• Jesus VALENZUELA
• Slavko VINCIC
• Wilton SAMPAIO
• Felix ZWAYER

Assistant referees 

• Amos ABEIGNE
• Mahmoud ABOUELREGAL
• Mostafa AKARKAD
• Mohammed AL ABAKRY
• Mohamed AL HAMMADI
• Mohammad AL KALAF
• Saoud AL MAQALEH
• Taleb AL MARRI
• Ahmad AL ROALLE
• Lyes ARFA
• Kyle ATKINS
• Carlos BARREIRO
• Micheal BARWEGEN
• Isaak BASHEVKIN
• Mahbod BEIGI
• Juan Pablo BELATTI
• Gary BESWICK
• Daniele BINDONI
• Marco BISGUERRA
• Zakaria BRINSI
• Bruno BOSCHILIA
• Bruno PIRES
• Stuart BURT
• Eduardo CARDOZO
• Gabriel CHADE
• Danilo MANIS
• Nicolas DANOS
• Stephane DE ALMEIDA
• Jan DE VRIES
• Maximiliano DEL YESSO
• Christian DIETZ
• Boris DITSOGA
• Jan Erik ENGAN
• Rodrigo FIGUEIREDO
• Timur GAYNULLIN
• Mokrane GOURARI
• Alexander GUZMAN
• Ahmed HOSSAM TAHA
• Jerson SANTOS
• Bruno JESUS
• Robert KEMPTER
• Tomaz KLANCNIK
• Andraz KOVACIC
• Adam KUPSIK
• George LAKRINDIS
• James LINDSAY
• Tomasz LISTKIEWICZ
• Walter LOPEZ
• Luciano MAIA
• James MAINWARING
• Mihai MARICA
• Brooke MAYO
• Jun MIHARA
• Juan Carlos MORA
• David MORAN
• Tulio MORENO
• Alberto MORIN
• Cyril MUGNIER
• Josè Enrique NARANJO  
• Cristian NAVARRO
• Kathryn NESBITT
• Elvis NOUPUE
• Adam NUNN
• Michael ORUE
• Benjamin PAGES
• Corey PARKER
• Antonio PUPIRO
• Rafael ALVES
• Christian RAMIREZ
• Sandra RAMIREZ
• Mehdi RAHMOUNI
• Jose RETAMAL
• Miguel ROCHA
• Facundo RODRIGUEZ
• Milciades SALDIVAR
• Diego SANCHEZ
• Zakhele SIWELA
• Andreas SODERKVIST
• Hessel STEEGSTRA
• Nicolas TARAN
• Alberto TEGONI
• Isaac TREVIS
• Andrey TSAPENKO
• Ferencz TUNYOGI
• Jorge URREGO
• Caleb WALES
• Abbes Akram ZERHOUNI
• Fei ZHOU

VAR Officials 

• Khamis AL-MARRI
• Abdullah ALSHEHRI
• Mahmoud ASHOUR
• Ivan BEBEK
• Jerome BRISARD
• Bastian DANKERT
• Carlos DEL CERRO GRANDE
• Marco DI BELLO
• Joe DICKERSON
• Rob DIEPERINK
• Hamza EL FARIQ
• Shaun EVANS
• Fu MING
• Nicolas GALLO
• Antonio GARCIA
• Jarred GILLETT
• Leodan GONZALEZ
• Tatiana GUZMAN
• Dennis HIGLER
• Tomasz KWIATKOWSKI
• Juan LARA
• Hernan MASTRANGELO
• Erick MIRANDA
• Mohammed OBAID KHADIM
• Guillermo PACHECO
• Fedayi SAN
• Juan SOTO
• Rodolpho TOSKI
• Bram VAN DRIESSCHE
• Armando VILLARREAL

 

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