
Peter Kralovic starts his international career as a UEFA category 3 referee.

Like many referees, Kruzliak began as a player (goalie for for Berg SF in Austria) and had to quit because of an injury. Dubut in the Slovak League at 23. Kruzliak is a U...

A professiona player who had to stop because of an injury. Richard Trutz is a UEFA Category 2 referee, promoted at the start of 2010.

A doctor of philosophy who played for Zilina from the age of 6 and later of a second division team. At 19 he decided to quit playing and become a referee. He was promoted...

Vladimir Vnuk is a UEFA Category 3 referee.

In 2007 Eduard Cichy was fined 50,000 koruna (US$2,150) by a Czech(!) court and banned for three years for taking bribes from the FC Synot chairman. Cichy was offered 200...

Slovak referee Ladislav Gadosi retired internationally at the end of 2002.

Fourth man to Lubos Michel for a long time, Richard Havrilla got his own international matches from 2005 when he started with UEFA cup qualifiers. More qualies later on f...

Hrinak started refereeing in 1982 and became an international in 1993. He refereed a great number of UEFA Cup matches, a few Champions League matches and qualifiers for...

Named best soccer referee in Slovakia three times, Karol Ihring after his retirement became sports director at Dukla Banská Bystrica football club.

Internationally Josef Kacenga took charge of qualifiers, friendlies and intertoto matches. He retired from FIFA in 2002 and from the national scene in 2008.

Born in the then Republic of Czecho-Slovakia in 1968, Lubos Michel had an impressive career as a referee and he was considered one of the world's best. He was only 25 whe...

Pavel Olsiak was part of the "new" generation that took over after Lubos Michel and Vladimir Hrinak. He had been taking charge of qualifiers and youth matches mostly. He ...

Still active in local football and co-owner of a real estate company, Anton Stredak used to take charge of qualifiers and 1st round UEFA Cup matches as an international r...

Mario Vlk started his international career in 2006. His first match (Intertoto) ended at half time. He was a UEFA Category 3 referee until the end of 2011.

Bohdan Benedik was a lawyer and an international referee from the 1990s, he died young in 2006.