
Just 6 months in as an international ref, Oliver Drachta was promoted from the 4th to the 2nd UEFA Category at the start of season 2010-2011.

A prolific striker for FC Ligist, a (not so very good) side from a local Liga, who turned to refereeing for good after an injury made him quit playing in 2001. Rene Eisne...

Gerhard Grobelnik is a referee since april 1991. He started refereeing in Austria's top league in July 2003 and received his FIFA badge in 2009. He is a UEFA Category 3 r...

Markus Hameter started his refereeing career in November 1996, inspired by his grandfather, who had been a referee for more than 30 years. Markus Hameter was promoted to ...

Alexander Harkam (UEFA category 3) wanted to be a player but after he broke his shoulder at 18 he started thinking about a different career in football. Refereeing began ...

promoted to the 3rd category in 2011 which changed into 2nd six months later.

Robert Schoergenhofer is a referee since 1991 and received his FIFA badge in 2007. He became a UEFA Elite Development Category referee at the start of 2011 but in July 20...

World and European Cup referee Günter Benkö started as a football player himself. He got injured in his knees at the age of 25. In 1980 he decided to start a refereeing...

Bernhard Brugger, active as referee since 1982, received his FIFA badge in 1999. He was a UEFA Category 3 referee but got demoted to 4 (which was changed to 3) in 2011, h...

Horst Brummeier took charge of a match in the 1988 European Championships and a match in the 1986 World Cup. See his palmares

Josef Bucek was on the FIFA list from 1971 until the end of 1981. The quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup between Spartak Moskva and Real Madrid must have been his mat...

Dietmar Drabek became a referee in 1982.

Thomas Einwaller was a referee since June 1992. He started refereeing in the Austrian Bundesliga in July 2001 and is also active in the Swiss competition. He had his FIFA...

An international referee for two years: 1971, 1972

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Hubert Forstinger took charge of a match in the 1992 European Championships and a semi-final match of the 1991 European Cup. More matches, see palmares

England - The Netherlands, Euro 1996 (4-1). The list of his matches is impressive, his last year as an international referee was 1999.

An international referee for one or two seasons, last one was 1967/68.

The 1963 Intercontinental Cup match Milan-Santos, Haberfellner was a FIFA ref for only six years (1960-1965) and the other matches he took charge of were in the lower rou...

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Josef Jegel was on the international list in 1972 and 1973.

A referee from 1972 until 1994, with 117 matches in the Austrian Bundesliga since 1981. FIFA 1985-1993,

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Between 2002 and 2008, Gerald Lehner tok charge of matches in the UEFA Cup, qualifiers and youth matches. See his palmares

Erich Linemayr took charge of three matches in two World Cups ('74, '78), two in the 1980 European Championships and the European Cup final in 1979.

Gerald Losert is a retired Austrian referee who was active internationally in the 80's.

A player for FC Brunn who became a referee after he bet with a friend about not losing a match.

An international referee active in the 1960s.

There was a Fritz Mayer from Vienna who was listed as - what was called then - a deputy FIFA referee in 1951. Three years later Friedrich Mayer appeared on the same list ...

Stefan Messner's dream was to become a professional football player until he had to stop due to many injuries. He became a referee instead and then his dream was to offic...

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Retired UEFA Elite Category referee Konrad Plautz passed his referee's exam in 1984. He was an assistant referee in the Austrian Bundesliga from August 1989 till July 199...

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Referee since 1954 when he wanted to stay involved in football after having been a player. He was a FIFA referee between 1964 and 1976 and a national ref between 1959 and...

A FIFA referee in his 40s in the 1990s and elected chairman of the Austrian Referee Committee in 2011.

This Austrian referee who had a FIFA badge between 1998 and 2005, took charge internationally of qualifiers and youth matches. He was a category 3 ref.

Roma Steindl was already 39 when he got his FIFA badge, a bit late to have a career. When he retired because of his age in 1994 he had officiated in 37 international matc...

Josef Stoll was the referee of the 1964 European Cup final between Inter and Real Madrid.

Fritz Stuchlik always knew he wanted to become a referee. He took his exams at 17, worked his way up to the National 'Bundes' League and got his FIFA badge in 1994.

FIFA referee in 1965 and 66, Josef Tittl was a lines man at the 1966 World Cup in England.

Franz Wöhrer was a football player when a friend asked him to try refereeing together. It was 1957 when Wöhrer took charge of his first match. He reached the highest le...

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

On the way to the match LASK vs Wacker Innsbruck, September 1968, Eduard Babauczek, his wife, and lines man Heinrich Rau, were killed in a car crash.

Johann Beck took charge of a match at the 1948 Olympic Games.

A player for Wacker and ASV Hertha Wien, Alois Beranek was a referee in from 1930 till 1954. He took charge of two matches in two World Cup finals. In 1934 and 1938. And ...

Eugen (sometimes "Erwin") Braun was active in the Mitropa Cup and took charge of one match in the 1934 World Cup finals.

On the international list 1958 until 1961. "Viktor" is his first name on the FIFA lists. Some sites (all spawned from the same data base) have him as "Ernst".

Heinz Fahnler died of a stroke on the streets of Madrid in 2008, a few hours before the match Real - Bate Borisov which he was going to attend as a UEFA delegate.

A former goal keeper and international referee between 1929 and 1937 who was was active in for instance the Mitropa Cup.

One of the founders of First Vienna, later Wiener FC, Geo Fuchs also took charge of matches around the turn of the century, among them the first ever Austrian internation...

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

An international referee during season 1954/55 and a deputy ref two years prior to that.

We haven't got much on this referee, as you can see. Think you can help us out? Then do please write us an email!

Alfred or Franz (or both) Grill was active internationally for at least ten years, his last season was 1959/60. Among the matches he took charge of was a quarter-final of...

On the international list from season 1950/51 until 1956/57.

When Karl Kainer took the match ball, that had the signatures of the Man U players, with him after the 1958 European Cup semi-final against Red Star Belgrade, little did ...

A minor international referee who became a very important person after his retirement. Boss of the Austrian referee committee , vice-president of the Austrian FA and head...

This Helmut Kohl was not the German Chancellor but quite a famous referee who's career started in 1969.

Maybe the greatest Austrian referee ever (according to Austrian tv), Ferdinand Marschall carried a FIFA badge between 1954 and 1972. He took charge of a match in the 1970...

Player, international referee, president of the Austrian FA, FIFA delegate, Hugo Meisl was an all round football man. But he is mostly known for having masterminded the A...

A player for First Vienna FC and the national team. A trainer of the national team and an international referee. Retschury died in 1944.

Fritz Seipelt was a FIFA referee from 1953 until 1962. He was active in the European Cup and at the 1958 World Cup where he took charge of two matches, one a quarter-fina...

3 matches at two World Cup finals: two in 1954 (a quarter-final), one in 1962 and then forgotten. Erich Steiner died in 1971. If there is someone who has information abou...

Dimitris "Taki" Wlachojanis was born in Greece in 1923. He became a ref in the 1950's, was an international ref in the 60's and retired from officiating in 1972. He offic...