
Dave Gantar has been one of the top referees in Canada for a few years and in 2011 he finally got what he deserved by getting his FIFA badge.

Romanian born Petruscu started refereeing in 1987. He's performed in some CONCACAF championship qualifying matches, in the World Cup 2002 and in the Pan-Am Games in 2003...

Paul Ward was accepted on the FIFA list in 2007 when he was 34. After a year with several fourth official duties in MLS, he made the next step in 2008, when he got many r...

Bob Allen started his career as a football player. Later on he became a referee, a linesman and an official.

Born in Romania, Carmil Amarica started as a player for Victoria Constanta. When he moved to Canada in 1952 he reached the final of the Canadian National Challenge Cup wi...

Gordon Arrowsmith was a FIFA ref from Cananda and a NASL Referee from the 70s untill the leauge ended in 1985.

David Brummitt, who took charge of a match of the 1989 u16 World Cup, had to end his refereeing career because of an illness. Later he became the Langley School District ...

Jean-Francois Corrivault started internationally as an assistant referee, stepped down for a year, came back as a referee, but asked his association to be re-appointed as...

Steven Depiero was selected to officiate at the 2007 World Cup U-20 in Canada. He retired internationally at the end of 2010.

Italina born Tony Evangelista came with his parents to Canada when he was 13. Ten years leter he took charge of his first match as a referee. Internationally he officiate...

Jose Farias Martinez spent several years on the FIFA list, but there were rumours that he had some problems refereeing at the CONCACAF level; therefore, his international...

James Highet was a FIFA referee from 1970 until 1974 when he was taken off the FIFA list because of a match in Haiti. Highet continued his career in the NASL and Soccer B...

An international referee from the 1980s taking charge of qualifiers and friendlies. Peter Johnson was also active in the NASL.

Hu "Tiger" Liu is originally from China, where he claimed he was a first division referee, which helped him to get his FIFA badge in Canada.

A FIFA referee for ten years. He was an official (linesman) at the Olympic Games in Montreal, the 1975 Pan American Games and the International Challenge Cup in New York ...

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Chili born Mauricio Navarro started as a referee in 1984 after playing soccer since the day he could walk. He received his Fifa badge in 2000.

A former FIFA referee, Robert (Bob) Sawtell is currently a member of the Canadian Referees Committee, where he has a big influence on the Canadian refereeing.

Mike Seifert became Canada's youngest FIFA Referee in 1990.

Born in Greece on January 4, 1933, Constantinos (Dino) Soupliotis was actively involved in soccer for 60 years, as a player, referee, referee administrator, member of ref...

Originally from Romania, Bogdan Stanescu managed to get his FIFA badge in 2002, when he was 34. Unfortunately, he mainly got fourth official appointments at the FIFA/CONC...

Germany born Werner Winsemann was the first Canadian to officiate at a World Cup finals, as a referee in 1974 and a lines man in 1978.

Born in Yugolslavia but moved to Canada with his parents at a very young age, Dan Kulai grew up in the mining town of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island. He was a player and...

A Canadian FIFA referee for 9 years, active in youth tournaments, qualifiers and such, but also a player for Aston Villa, Manchester City and Manchester United who had to...

Raymond Morgan was born in the Philippines and grew up in England where he was in the Royal Air Force. He emigrated to Canada in 1947. According to the Canadian Soccer Ha...