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- Mario van der Ende's blog Mario calls himself Mario and shows pictures of himself with semi-famous Dutch people and goes on and on about the incompetence of Dutch referees and about how he hates the Dutch referee boss. (in Dutch only)
- Dick Jol The old Dutch master
- HSV About referees from The Hague, Netherlands
- Roelof Luinge Site by a fan of the Dutch top referee
- Scheidsrechters Enschede News about referees from a Dutch town called Enschede
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Kevin Blom (Active)
On February 20, 2004 Kevin Blom refereed his first match in the Eredivisie (the top Dutch league). He received his FIFA badge a year later. When he is not on the field he...
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Pol van Boekel (Active)
Dutch referee Pol van Boekel used to be a professional football player. He played for 5 years for VVV. He received his FIFA Badge in 2008 and is a UEFA Category 1 referee...
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Serdar Gozubuyuk (Active)
A senior ref since July 1st 2011 and 6 months later on the FIFA panel. Gözübüyuk (our site does not like all those dots) started refereeing in 2001 and is the youngest...
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Bjorn Kuipers (Active)
A son of a referee, Bjorn Kuipers decided early in his life to become a referee as well. In 2006, at the age of 33, Kuipers received his FIFA badge. Kuipers became an eli...
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Richard Liesveld (Active)
When Jan Wegereef and Ruud Bossen retired internationally in 2007, two new Dutch referees were up for a FIFA badge. One was Van Boekel the other Richard Liesveld. Both we...
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Danny Makkelie (Active)
Danny Desmond Makkelie is a category 2 referee who got his FIFA badge in 2011. He is active in the Dutch Eredivisie since 2009 and an A-group referee since 2010. It was t...
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Bas Nijhuis (Active)
Bas Nijhuis started refereeing when he was only fifteen years old. Standing in the middle of the pitch one day he instantly knew that this was the world he wanted to belo...
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Bertus Ausum (Retired)
Bertus Ausum (sometimes "Aussum") was a FIFA referee until season 1955/56.
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Cees Bakker (Retired)
Later second man to Jaap Uilenberg in the Dutch Referee Commission, Bakker used to be an international referee in the 80's - early 90's
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Ad Boogaerts (Retired)
Ad (Adrianus) Boogaerts is a retired Dutch referee who was active internationally from 1964 until (probably) 1972.
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Ruud Bossen (Retired)
Ruud Bossen started out as a football player. But after an injury, he decided to become a referee. Starting humbly as a youth referee he steadily climbed the referee ladd...
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Eric Braamhaar (Retired)
This Dutch referee, who works for the Dutch football association, taking care of other referees and scouting for new ones, took charge of the World Cup u17 final after on...
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Koen Brouwer (Retired)
Koen(raad) Brouwer was an international referee for at least one season 1971/72, maybe one more. He retired in 1972.
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Charles Corver (Retired)
Dutch referee Charles Corver was active at two World Cup finals. One match in 1978, two in 1982, the last match was the semi-final West-Germany vs France. He was voted Re...
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Andre la Croix (Retired)
An international referee during two season 1961/62, 1962/63.
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Frans Derks (Retired)
Frans Derks had to cut off bits of his yellow and red card to make them fit in his tight shorts. This beatnik referee was a bit of a character in Holland, still is.
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Herman van Dijk (Retired)
Herman van Dijk played forward for Heerenveen before the team turned professional. He was the kind of player who always had something to say to the ref and who was often...
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Jef Dorpmans (Retired)
Jef Dorpmans played forward for Vitesse Arnhem from when he was 16 in 1941. After the war he resumed his football career but had to quit in 1951, no longer good enough. ...
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Wim Egbertzen (Retired)
In 1991 the Dutch FA (KNVB) told Egbertzen he was no longer a referee. He had had too many bad reviews and had to make way to new refs (one of them was future World Cup r...
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Dick van Egmond (Retired)
Dick van Egmond started his football career at SV Concordia in Hillegom, but realized soon he preferred refereeing. He was a FIFA ref between 1997 and the end of 2006 and...
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Mario van der Ende (Retired)
Mario van der Ende started as a referee in 1977 in the district of the Hague. Two years later he was promoted to KNVB-referee (Dutch FA) reaching the national C-list in 1...
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Henk van Ettekoven (Retired)
Disappointed when he had to stop assessing refs in The Netherlands because of his age, Henk van Ettekoven keeps himself active in other ways. As a chairman of the rules c...
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Arie van Gemert (Retired)
Arie van Gemert took charge of one match in the 1974 World Cup finals in Germany.
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Gerard Geurds (Retired)
A FIFA referee from 1978 until he retired in 1987 (47 matches), national referee professional league: 1974-1987 (480 matches).
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Ben Haverkort (Retired)
Ben Haverkort was a defensive player for more than 16 years before he became a referee.
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Ben Hoppenbrouwer (Retired)
Sources name him Koen Hoppenbrouwer, but it is Ben. He was a FIFA referee for two years, 1974 and 1975.
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Jack van Hulten (Retired)
Internationally active for only two or three years, Jack van Hulten lasted much longer in the Dutch Eredivisie from which he retired at 50, June 2011 and only because he ...
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Dick Jol (Retired)
At ten Dick Jol started playing for Scheveningen. He hated the other referees, thought they were bad and one day, when a former referee told him to do it himself if he th...
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Jan Keizer (Retired)
Arrogant, too strict, vain, just a few words you find when you read about Jan (Johannes Nicolaas Ignatius) Keizer. There is even a kind of Jan Keizer (old-school) way of ...
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Leo van der Kroft (Retired)
Leo van der Kroft started refereeing in 1959 and reached the highest level in the Netherlands in 1966. Four years later he earned his FIFA badge. Van der Kroft took charg...
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Chris van der Laar (Retired)
After his career as a referee and FIFA referee (briefly), Chris van der Laar became the general manager of team Den Bosch until he was fired in 1994.
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Roelof Luinge (Retired)
Roelof Luinge's refereeing career started by accident when he was asked to substitute for a ref in a youth match. He did well, and a representative of the Football federa...
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Hugo Luyten (Retired)
Luijten retired in 2004 from the Dutch National League and his first real match was in 1987. He didn't get very far internationally and in the Netherlands he officiated (...
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Johan Martens (Retired)
International referee from 1957 until 1963.
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Egbert Mulder (Retired)
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Jaap van der Niet (Retired)
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Hendrik Pijper (Retired)
An international referee in 1972 and 1973.
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Laurens van Ravens (Retired)
Two matches in the 1970 World Cup. Lau van Ravens was almost 50 years old when he took charge of the 1972 UEFA Cup final. Soon after that he retired. International ref 19...
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Hans Reygwart (Retired)
Researching Hans Reygwart you'll find many politically coloured articles. Apparently he has enemies (national newspaper De Telegraaf) and friends (UEFA's Jaap Uilenberg)....
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Wim Schalks (Retired)
The World Cup qualifier Northern Ireland - Turkey in 1968 could have been his most important international match. Schalks was internationally active 1964-1968.
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Rene Temmink (Retired)
Heavy set and very tall, Temmink officiated more than 400 matches in the Dutch top league (eredivisie). From 1995 he lead more than 75 international matches.
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Bep Thomas (Retired)
As a player he once told a bad referee he was sure he could do better and he did. Thomas was a national referee from 1975 until 1991 and international from around 1979 un...
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Jaap Uilenberg (Retired)
The Dutch referee boss Jaap Uilenberg is a bit of a controversial character. As a referee he took the then referee boss to court to change the retirement age for official...
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Pieter Vink (Retired)
Vink started as a referee in 1987 and reached the top in the Netherlands in 2001. A police officer for almost 20 years but now a full-time referee, Vink received his FIF...
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Jef van Vliet (Retired)
Internationally active in the early 1990s, now a referee educator.
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Hendrik Weerink (Retired)
A referee in professional football for 19 years, Henk Weerink started in 1963 and got his FIFA badge in 1974 and took charge of 37 intl. matches.
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Jan Wegereef (Retired)
Dutch top referee Jan Wegereef started in 1980 as a referee and officiated his first match on the highest level (Eredivisie) in 1989.
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Siem Wellinga (Retired)
National referee 1967 -1978, international ref for at least one year: 1976, possibly one more before that.
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Janus Aalbrecht (Deceased)
Adrianus ("Janus") Aalbrecht was a FIFA referee from 1966 until 1969. He died in 2006
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Jan Beck (Deceased)
An international referee from 1975 until the end of 1979. Two matches in the third round of the UEFA Cup may have been his matches with the highest profile.
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Willem Beltman (Deceased)
This former army captain and disciplinarian did not take charge of many international matches. He was an international referee from 1957 until 1960 with two years before ...
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Gerrit J Berrevoets (Deceased)
Berrevoets was a lines man in the 1976 European Cup quarter-final Madrid Borussia. 1976 was his last year as a FIFA referee which he had been for one or two years.
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van Bisselink (Deceased)
It could also be Besselink. We found no first name.
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John Blankenstein (Deceased)
John Blankenstein used to wear very tight shorts and everybody knew, even before he came out, that he was gay. Next to being a top referee and, after his retirement, head...
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Wolf Simon Boas (Deceased)
We not sure about his first name, it may be Marcus, Wolf or Simon or something else. Boas was active as a referee in the 1920s an 30s. He is known in the Netherlands as t...
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Hans Boekman (Deceased)
An international referee - who for instance, took charge of matches in the 1928 Olympic Games - but also a movie mogul, albeit on a Dutch scale.
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Theo Boosten (Deceased)
A FIFA referee from 1968 until 1973. Theo Boosten died in 1994.
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Johann Bronkhorst (Deceased)
Johann (Jan) Bronkhorst took charge of a match in the 1958 World Cup finals and one in the 1960 European Championships.
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Gerard Dyxhoorn (Deceased)
In Dutch his name written as Dijkshoorn makes more sense, Dyxhoorn is the name we found on international sites. Gerard Willem Dijkshoorn took charge of a match between Be...
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Willem Eymers (Deceased)
Willem Eyemers took charge of matches in the 1920 and the 1928 Olympic Games. Eymers started refereeing in 1904.
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Max Foltynski (Deceased)
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Christiaan Groothoff (Deceased)
Born in the town of Zaltbommel, son of a baker, Christiaan Groothoff (1878-1954) moved to Amsterdam to get an education. It was in the park (now called the Vondelpark) th...
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Johan Hazeu (Deceased)
A referee from 1910 till 1936 and a member of the referee committee until 1960, Johan Hazeu has been an important person in Dutch football for 50 years.
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Leo Horn (Deceased)
As a 6 year old Leo Horn played football on sundays on a field on which his dad let his cows graze during the week. At 17 his knee injury was bad enough for him to stop p...
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Frans Houben (Deceased)
A national Eredivisie referee between 1987 and 1994. Frans Houben died in 2001 of an illness.
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Andries van Leeuwen (Deceased)
An international referee from 1957 until 1963.
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Karel van der Meer (Deceased)
A goal keeper who almost made it to the national team, Karel Louis van der Meer got seriously injured in 1932 and decided to become a referee instead.
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H.A. Meerum Terwogt (Deceased)
The story goes that Amsterdam born Albert Meerum Terwogt just happened to pick up a whistle one day and grew into refereeing. His first international match was Sweden - H...
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Johannes van Moorsel (Deceased)
The first ever Dutchman to have officiated at a World Cup finals, Johannes Franciscus van Moorsel, was also a doctor of economics, active rotarian, bridge, cricket, footb...
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D. Johannes Mutters (Deceased)
Job Mutters' first international match was Denmark - Sweden in 1919. This tall Dutchman officiated at three Olympic Tournaments and his most important match must have bee...
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Dirk Nijs (Deceased)
Dirk Nijs owned a shop that sold coal, was a goalkeeper and later member of the board of a amateur team called De Musschen (the sparrows) and a renowned referee before an...
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Piet Roomer (Deceased)
Pieter Paulus Roomer, another player turned referee, took charge of a quarter-final in the 1964 European Championships. He was an international referee from 1956 until 1...
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Klaas Schipper (Deceased)
Player, referee and tobacconist, Klaas Schipper's first ever match as a referee was Blauw Geel vs Groen Geel (blue yellow vs green yellow, they had great names in those ...
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Ignace van Swieten (Deceased)
Ignace van Swieten's first match in the Dutch professional league was in 1976, he was a FIFA referee between 1983 and 1990. The Dutch referee of the year 1984 died on Gr...
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Henri Vermeulen (Deceased)
Henri Constant Albert Vermeulen took charge of a friendly in 1905, one of the many Holland-Belgiums.
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Joop Vervoort (Deceased)
Johannes (Joop) Vervoort was a FIFA referee in 1972, 73 and 74. Vervoort died in 1993, age 61.
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Aad van Welzenes (Deceased)
Alfred Emiel Van Welzenes was a player for V.O.C. and Xerxes, an athlete (100 metres) and a referee, active between 1929 and 1947. He is also known for jumping off a brid...
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Herbert James Willing (Deceased)
Herbert (Bep) Willing took charge of matches in the 1912 Olympic Games. One of the matches was the consolation final.
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Jan de Wolf (Deceased)
Internationally active in the 1930s.
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Theo van Zwieteren (Deceased)
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