WorldReferee.com offers an ever increasing database of international referees. We invite you to join us and make this a better site: tell us what you like about this site and what you hate about it, talk about matches and referees in our forums or write your own match report.

Worldreferee is run from Holland, but our reporters are from all over the place. The ones who work hardest for this site are: Maia (reports and research), Gefluegel, The Eng, Padre, Ray (reports), EPV, Frank Kvas, Ederson P (research), Dave Eisenhower, Archie Rogers (research, moderator), Jack Alzapua (web guy genius)and everyone who submits reports and marks.

This is the short (or long) list for the 2014 World Cup.

Pavel Kralovec (Cze); Mark Clattenburg, Howard Webb (Eng); Stephane Lannoy (Fra); Felix Brych, Wolfgang Stark (Ger); Viktor Kassai (Hun); Nicola Rizzoli, Gianluca Rocchi (Ita); Bjorn Kuipers (Ned); Svein Oddvar Moen (Nor); Pedro Proenca (Por); Craig Thomson (Sco); Milorad Mazic (Ser); Damir Skomina (Slv); Alberto Undiano Mallenco, Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spa); Jonas Eriksson (Swe); Cuneyt Cakir (Tur).

Diego Abal (Arg); Wilson Seneme (Bra); Raul Orosco (Bol); Enrique Osses (Chi); Wilmar Roldan (Col); Carlos Vera (Ecu); Antonio Arias (Par); Victor Carrillo (Per); Roberto Silvera (Uru); Juan Soto (Ven).

Walter Lopez (Gua); Roberto Garcia, Marco Rodriguez (Mex); Roberto Moreno (Pan); Joel Aguilar (Sal); Mark Geiger, Jair Marrufo (USA).

Benjamin Williams (Aus); Nawaf Shukralla (Bah); Alireza Faghani (Irn); Yuichi Nishimura (Jap); Khalil Al Ghamdi (SA); Ali Albadwawi (Uae); Ravshan Irmatov (Uzb).

Djamel Haimoudi (Alg); Neant Alioum (Cam); Noumandiez Doue (Civ); Bakary Gassama (Gam); Badara Diatta (Sen); Daniel Bennett (Rsa); Slim Jedidi (Tun).

Peter O'Leary (N-Z); Norbert Hauata (Tah).

This is the men's list. There is of course also a women's list, if anyone wants to help us with it (writing bios) please send us an e-mail.

Felix Brych (Ger); Mark Clattenburg (Eng); Pavel Kralovec (Cze); Svein Moen (Nor); Gianlucca Rocchi (Ita); Raul Orosco (Bol); Wilmar Roldan (Col); Juan Soto (Ven); Roberto Garcia (Mex); Mark Geiger (USA); Ravshan Irmatov (Uzb); Yuichi Nishimura (Jap); Ben Williams (Aus); Bakary Gassama (Gam); Slim Jedidi (Tun); Peter O'Leary (N-Z)

Cuneyt Cakir; Jonas Eriksson; Victor Kassai; Bjorn Kuipers; Stephane Lannoy; Perdo Proenca; Nicola Rizzoli; Damir Skomina; Wolfgng Stark; Craig Thomson; Carlos Velasco Carballo; Howard Webb

The first and only Venezuelan World Cup finals referee, Vicente Llobregat has died.

Llobregat was also active in the Libertadores where he took charge of finals and semi-finals. Llobregat was 79 years old.

From Nigeria news reached us of the passing on of Alhaji Sunny Shakibudeen Badru.

FIFA badged, and one of Nigeria's greatest Referees. A gentleman, father, and a rallying point to both young and old. He passed on last night at the very ripe age of 84. May his gentle soul rest in peace. He had since been buried according to Islamic Rites at the Abari Cemetary on Lagos Island, just right beside his late mother (He willed it).

Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez, the Spanish UEFA premier list referee announced his retirement. The match Betis -Real was his last.

First ever Chinese World Cup referee (2002) Lu Jun has been sentenced to 5,5 years imprisonment for having taken bribes.

Lu Jun has been sent to prison after admitting taking bribes worth more than $128,000 to fix the results of at least seven Chinese league football games. Lu Jun was one of nine people convicted of charges related to corruption inside Chinese football. A number of other cases are still pending. In China, corrupt referees have become known as "black whistles". Corruption is widespread in Chinese Football. The club Shanghai Shenhua spent nearly $1m bribing officials and referees, including Lu Jun. The trial of two biggest fishes, two former senior officials in the Chinese Football Association, have yet to start. Since 2009 a cleaning up campaign started and dozens of people have been arrested.

The sad news reached us that assistant referee and brother of FIFA referee Laurent, Stephane Duhamel has committed suicide.

Stephane Duhamel often assisted his brother and was a FIFA assistant referee until he decided to quit at the end of 2011. Stephane Duhamel was 42 years old.