Kateryna Monzul
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| Full name | Kateryna Volodymyrivna Monzul | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
5 July 1981 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Domestic | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 2011– | Ukrainian First League | Referee | |
| 2016– | Ukrainian Premier League | Referee | |
| International | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 2004– | FIFA listed | Referee | |
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Monzul (Ukrainian: Катерина Володимирівна Монзуль; born 5 July 1981) is an Ukrainian football referee.
Biography
Monzul is 167 cm (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) tall, speaks fluent English, and has a degree in architecture and town planning from Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy.[1] She took charge of her first international match in September 2005, Finland versus Poland in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualififiers.[2] She first refereed in a final tournament in the 2009 UEFA Women's Euro, while in the 2011 World Cup she served as a fourth official.
The 2013 UEFA Women's Euro's Norway vs. Denmark semifinal marked her first performance in a major nations tournament's final stages. The following year she refereed the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. In 2014, she was voted second in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) World's Best Woman Referee poll behind Bibiana Steinhaus.[3]
Monzul refereed the opening match of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, marking her debut in the competition as main referee, in which she awarded a controversial injury time penalty kick to host nation Canada who scored to beat China 1–0.[4] She refereed the final on 5 July 2015 between the United States and Japan. In 2015, she was named as the IFFHS World’s Best Woman Referee.[5]
On 3 April 2016, Monzul started working in the Ukrainian Premier League, in a match between Chornomorets Odesa and Volyn Lutsk. In doing so, she became the first female referee in the elite men´s Ukrainian football division.[6]
International competition record
- Teams in bold progressed past the stage
| Competition | Qualifiers | Group stage | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Finland 3–1 Poland Belarus 1–2 Iceland | |||||
 | Serbia 0–8 France Austria 0–4 Norway Italy 3–0 Hungary | Germany 5–1 France Sweden 1–1 England | ||||
 | Israel 1–2 Switzerland Finland 4–1 Portugal France 0–0 Italy Italy 1–0 Switzerland | |||||
 | Belgium 0–1 Norway Spain 2–2 Germany Czech Republic 0–2 Denmark Bosnia-Herzegovina 0–2 Poland | Spain 3–2 England Denmark 1–1 Finland | Norway 1–1 Denmark (4–2 p aet) | |||
 | Sweden 2–0 Poland Spain 2–0 Italy Netherlands 1–1 Belgium Switzerland 3–0 Iceland Austria 3–1 Finland Germany 2–0 Republic of Ireland Scotland 1–2 Netherlands | Canada 1–0 China PR United States 1–0 Nigeria | Japan 1–0 Australia | United States 5–2 Japan | ||
 | Sweden 1–0 Denmark Romania 1–1 Portugal (aet) | Denmark 1–0 Belgium Germany 2–1 Italy England 2–1 Portugal | Denmark 0–0 Austria (3–0 p aet) | |||
References
- ↑ Murzina, Elena (23 January 2012). "Первая девушка-арбитр обставила мужчин" (in Russian). Sobesednik. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ↑ "Kateryna MONZUL". FIFA. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ↑ "THE WORLD'S BEST WOMAN REFEREE 2014". International Federation of Football History & Statistics. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ↑ "Women's World Cup 2015: Controversial penalty gives Canada win". BBC Sport. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ↑ "THE WORLD's BEST WOMAN REFEREE 2015". IFFHS Official Website. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ↑ "Вперше в історії матч футбольного чемпіонату України судитиме жінка ("The first time a woman will referee a match of Ukrainian Premier League")". TSN.ua. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
External links
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Preceded by |
2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final |
Succeeded by |
| Preceded by |
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final |
Succeeded by Most recent |