Brazil 2014: Referee Appointments for 25 June
FIFA have confirmed the match day officials for Wednesday 25th June. We’ve added the referee usage statistics at the end of the article which will be up to date for the matches played on Monday 23rd June.
25 June 2014
Honduras v Switzerland. Group E, Match 41, kick off at 9pm BST, live on BBC 3 at the Arena Amazonia, Manaus
Referee: Nestor Pitana (ARG)
Assistant Referees: Hernan Maidana (ARG) and Juan Belatti (ARG)
Fourth Official: Milorad Mazic (SRB)
Ecuador v France. Group E, Match 42, kick off at 9pm BST live on BBC 1 at the Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Noumandiez Doue (CIV)
Assistant Referees: Songuifolo Yeo (CIV) and Jean Birumushahu (BDI)
Fourth Official: Bjorn Kuipers (NED)
Nigeria v Argentina. Group F, Match 43, kick off at 5pm BST, live on ITV at the Estadio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA)
Assistant Referees: Renato Faverani(ITA) and Andrea Stefani (ITA)
Fourth Official: Svein Moen (NOR)
Bosnia-Herzegovina v Iran. Group F, Match 44, kick off at 5pm BST, live on ITV4 at the Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador
Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP)
Assistant Referees : Roberto Alonso Fernandez (ESP) and Juan Yuste Jimenez (ESP)
Fourth Official: Enrique Osses (CHI)
Referee statistics
| Ref | Country | Matches | Result | Yellows | Reds |
| ALIOUM | Cameroon | ||||
| Daniel BENNETT | South Africa | ||||
| Noumandiez DOUE | Côte d’Ivoire | ||||
| 1 | Chile 3 Australia 1 | 4 | |||
| Totals | 1 | 4 | |||
| Bakary GASSAMA | Gambia | 1 | Holland 2 Chile 0 | 2 | |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Djamel HAIMOUDI | Algeria | ||||
| 1 | Australia 2 Holland 3 | 2 | |||
| Totals | 1 | 2 | |||
| Alireza FAGHANI | Iran | ||||
| Ravshan IRMATOV | Uzbekistan | ||||
| 1 | Switzerland 2 Ecuador 1 | 2 | |||
| 1 | Croatia 1 Mexico 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Totals | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Yuichi NISHIMURA | Japan | 1 | Brazil 3 Croatia 1 | 4 | |
| Totals | 1 | 4 | |||
| Nawaf SHUKRALLA | Bahrain | 1 | Australia 0 Spain 3 | 3 | |
| Totals | 1 | 3 | |||
| Benjamin WILLIAMS | Australia | 1 | Honduras 1 Ecuador 2 | 5 | |
| Totals | 1 | 5 | |||
| Felix BRYCH | Germany | 1 | Uruguay 1 Costa Rica 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | Belgium 1 Russia 0 | 3 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Cuneyt CAKIR | Turkey | 1 | Brazil 0 Mexico 0 | 4 | |
| Totals | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Jonas ERIKSSON | Sweden | 1 | Ghana 1 USA 2 | 2 | |
| 1 | Cameroon 1 Brazil 4 | 3 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Bjorn KUIPERS | Netherlands | 1 | England 1 Italy 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | Switzerland 2 France 5 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Milorad MAZIC | Serbia | 1 | Germany 4 Portugal 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | Argentina 1 Iran 0 | 2 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Svein Oddvar MOEN | Norway | ||||
| Pedro PROENCA | Portugal | 1 | Cameroon 0 Croatia 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Nicola RIZZOLI | Italy | 1 | Spain 1 Holland 5 | 4 | |
| Totals | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Carlos VELASCO CARBALLO | Spain | 1 | Uruguay 2 England 1 | 2 | |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Howard WEBB | England | 1 | Columbia 2 Ivory Coast 1 | 2 | |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Joel AGUILAR | El Salvador | 1 | Argentina 2 Bosnia-H 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | Japan 0 Greece 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Totals | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Mark W GEIGER | USA | 1 | Columbia 3 Greece 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | Spain 0 Chile 2 | 3 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Walter LOPEZ | Guatemala | ||||
| Roberto MORENO | Panama | ||||
| Marco RODRIGUEZ | Mexico | 1 | Belgium 2 Algeria 1 | 2 | |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Norbert HAUATA | Tahiti | ||||
| Peter O LEARY | New Zealand | 1 | Nigeria 1 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0 | 2 | |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Victor CARRILLO | Peru | ||||
| Enrique OSSES | Chile | 1 | Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1 | 4 | |
| 1 | Italy 0 Costa Rica 1 | 2 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Nestor PITANA | Argentina | 1 | Russia 1 Korea Rep 1 | 4 | |
| 1 | USA 2 Portugal 2 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Sandro RICCI | Brazil | 1 | France 3 Honduras 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 1 | Germany 2 Ghana 2 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Wilmar ROLDAN | Colombia | 1 | Mexico 1 Cameroon 0 | 2 | |
| 1 | South Korea 2 Algeria 4 | 3 | |||
| Totals | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Carlos VERA | Ecuador | 1 | Iran 0 Nigeria 0 | 1 | |
| Totals | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Overall Total in the World Cup | 36 | 90 | 6 |