FIFA World Cup 2018 Referees & Assistants (Announced)

FIFA has announced the 2018 FIFA World Cup 36-man referees and assistant referees list which include 2 referees from pro panel . FIFA are also pushing for video assistant referees (VARs) to be part of 2018 World Cup but that will be decided in March 2018 which needs approval from the The International Football Association Board (The IFAB). Referees in the world cup final list comes from all parts of the world, UEFA has 10 names, while CONMEBOL and CONCACAF has 6 officials each. Below is the full list of match officials announced so far.

FIFA has announced the list of 36 match officials heading to Russia for 2018 World Cup which takes place in June-July 2018. This world might become the first in history to use video refereeing and FIFA are pushing hard to make VAR available for world cup and all preparations are done and subject to approval from IFAB in March 2018.

Here some of the major rules ahead of how the referees will be selected for specific games.

The 36 man list announced by FIFA is the final and there won’t be any changes unless some of the official fail fitness test and they will be replaced by reserved officials.
Video referee assistance will be announced from the 36-man list in March 2018 after approval from IFAB.
No referee can official match of his national team
Referees and other officials will be selected max 3 days before the match.
Referee for the final match will be announced after the semifinals.

Video Assistant Referees (VARs): Every match will have 1 main referee, 2 assistants and possibly 1 video assistant referee (VAR). FIFA will announce the names of referees from this 36 man list who will be acting as video assistant referees (VAR).

Match Officials For 2018 FIFA World Cup (Announced)
NO#	Match Officials (Confirmed)	FEDERATION
1	Felix BRYCH	UEFA (Elite Panel)
2	Cüneyt CAKIR	UEFA (Elite Panel)
3	Sergey KARASEV	UEFA (Elite Panel)
4	Bjorn KUIPERS	UEFA (Elite Panel)
5	Szymon MARCINIAK	UEFA (Elite Panel)
6	Antonio Miguel MATEU LAHOZ	UEFA (Elite Panel)
7	Milorad MAZIC	UEFA (Elite Panel)
8	Gianluca ROCCHI	UEFA (Elite Panel)
9	Damir SKOMINA	UEFA (Elite Panel)
10	Clement TURPIN	UEFA (Elite Panel)
11	Julio BASCUÑAN	CONMEBOL
12	Enrique CACERES	CONMEBOL
13	Andres CUNHA	CONMEBOL
14	Nestor PITANA	CONMEBOL
15	Sandro RICCI	CONMEBOL
16	Wilmar ROLDAN	CONMEBOL
17	Joel AGUILAR	CONCACAF
18	Mark W. GEIGER	CONCACAF
19	Jair MARRUFO	CONCACAF
20	Ricardo MONTERO	CONCACAF
21	John PITTI	CONCACAF
22	Cesar Arturo RAMOS PALAZUELOS	CONCACAF
23	Fahad AL MIRDASI	AFC
24	Alireza FAGHANI	AFC
25	Ravshan IRMATOV	AFC
26	Mohammed Abdulla MOHAMED	AFC
27	Ryuji SATO	AFC
28	Nawaf Abdulla SHUKRALLA	AFC
29	Mehdi ABID CHAREF	CAF
30	Malang DIEDHIOU	CAF
31	Bakary Papa GASSAMA	CAF
32	Ghead GRISHA	CAF
33	Janny SIKAZWE	CAF
34	Weyesa Bamlak TESSEMA	CAF
35	Matthew CONGER	OFC
36	Norbert HAUATA	OFC