Nicola Rizzoli

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Nicola Rizzoli (born 5 October 1971 in Mirandola, Modena, Italy) is an Italian football referee who has refereed in the Italian Serie A since 2002 and has been a FIFA-listed referee since 2007.^[1] He refereed his first UEFA Champions League qualifying match in August 2007, and took charge of his first Champions League group stage match, a 2–0 Sporting CP victory over Basel, on 1 October 2008. When not refereeing, Rizzoli works as an architect.

On 7 April 2010, Rizzoli took charge of the Champions League quarter-final second leg between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. With the score at 3–1 to Manchester United (4–3 on aggregate), Rizzoli sent off their right-back, Rafael, for a second bookable offence. Bayern then scored again and won the tie on away goals.^[2]

At international level, Rizzoli served as a referee at UEFA Euro 2012^[3] and has officiated in qualifiers for the 2010^[4] and 2014^[5] World Cups.

In March 2013, FIFA named Rizzoli to its list of 52 candidate referees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.^[6]

In May 2013, Rizzoli was selected by UEFA to referee the 2013 Champions League Final at Wembley.^[7]

References

↑ FIFA. "Italy: Referees". Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
↑ McNulty, Phil (7 April 2010). "Man Utd 3–2 Bayern Munich (agg 4–4)". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 8 April 2010.
↑ UEFA. "France 1-1 England". 11 June 2012. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
↑ FIFA. "Match Report - Hungary - Sweden 1:2 (0:1)". 5 September 2009. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
↑ FIFA. "Match Report - Republic of Ireland - Germany 1:6 (0:2)". 12 October 2012. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
↑ FIFA. "Open list of prospective referees & assistant referees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup". 7 March 2013. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
↑ UEFA."Rizzoli to referee UEFA Champions League Final". 20 May 2013. Retrieved on 20 May 2013.

External links

Profile at WorldReferee.com

v t e Serie A Referee of the Year

1997: Collina 1998: Collina 1999: Braschi 2000: Collina 2001: Braschi 2002: Collina 2003: Collina 2004: Collina 2005: Collina 2006: Rosetti 2007: Rosetti 2008: Rosetti 2009: Rosetti 2010: Morganti 2011: Rizzoli 2012: Rizzoli

UEFA Elite referees

v t e Referees at UEFA Euro 2012

Cüneyt Çakır (TUR) Jonas Eriksson (SWE) Viktor Kassai (HUN) Björn Kuipers (NED) Stéphane Lannoy (FRA) Pedro Proença (POR) Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) Damir Skomina (SVN) Wolfgang Stark (GER) Craig Thomson (SCO) Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP) Howard Webb (ENG)

v t e Referees at the 2014 FIFA World Cup

AFC	Ravshan Irmatov Yuichi Nishimura Nawaf Shukralla Ben Williams

CAF	Noumandiez Doué Bakary Gassama Djamel Haimoudi

CONCACAF	Joel Aguilar Mark Geiger Marco Antonio Rodríguez

CONMEBOL	Enrique Osses Néstor Pitana Wilmar Roldán Sandro Ricci Carlos Vera

OFC	Peter O'Leary

UEFA	Felix Brych Cüneyt Çakır Jonas Eriksson Björn Kuipers Milorad Mažić Pedro Proença Nicola Rizzoli Carlos Velasco Carballo Howard Webb

v t e European Cup and UEFA Champions League Final referees

European Cup	1956: Arthur Edward Ellis (ENG) 1957: Leo Horn (NED) 1958: Albert Alsteen (BEL) 1959: Albert Dusch (FRG) 1960: Jack Mowat (SCO) 1961: Gottfried Dienst (SUI) 1962: Leo Horn (NED) 1963: Arthur Holland (ENG) 1964: Josef Stoll (AUT) 1965: Gottfried Dienst (SUI) 1966: Rudolf Kreitlein (FRG) 1967: Kurt Tschenscher (FRG) 1968: Concetto Lo Bello (ITA) 1969: José Ortiz de Mendíbil (ESP) 1970: Concetto Lo Bello (ITA) 1971: Jack Taylor (ENG) 1972: Robert Helles (FRA) 1973: Milivoje Gugulović (YUG) 1974: Vital Loraux (BEL) and Alfred Delcourt (BEL) 1975: Michel Kitabdjian (FRA) 1976: Károly Palotai (HUN) 1977: Robert Wurtz (FRA) 1978: Charles Corver (NED) 1979: Erich Linemayr (AUT) 1980: António Garrido (POR) 1981: Károly Palotai (HUN) 1982: Georges Konrath (FRA) 1983: Nicolae Rainea (ROU) 1984: Erik Fredriksson (SWE) 1985: André Daina (SUI) 1986: Michel Vautrot (FRA) 1987: Alexis Ponnet (BEL) 1988: Luigi Agnolin (ITA) 1989: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (FRG) 1990: Helmut Kohl (AUT) 1991: Tullio Lanese (ITA) 1992: Aron Schmidhuber (GER)

UEFA Champions League	1993: Kurt Röthlisberger (SUI) 1994: Philip Don (ENG) 1995: Ion Crăciunescu (ROU) 1996: Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP) 1997: Sándor Puhl (HUN) 1998: Hellmut Krug (GER) 1999: Pierluigi Collina (ITA) 2000: Stefano Braschi (ITA) 2001: Dick Jol (NED) 2002: Urs Meier (SUI) 2003: Markus Merk (GER) 2004: Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 2005: Manuel Mejuto González (ESP) 2006: Terje Hauge (NOR) 2007: Herbert Fandel (GER) 2008: Ľuboš Micheľ (SVK) 2009: Massimo Busacca (SUI) 2010: Howard Webb (ENG) 2011: Viktor Kassai (HUN) 2012: Pedro Proença (POR) 2013: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA)

Preceded by 2009 UEFA Cup Final Luis Medina Cantalejo	UEFA Europa League Final referee 2010 Nicola Rizzoli	Succeeded by 2011 UEFA Europa League Final Carlos Velasco Carballo

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Name	Rizzoli, Nicola
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Short description	Football referee
Date of birth	5 October 1971
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