Football is the game of glamour without any doubt and people always like to talk about the big players whom they like to see playing for their respective countries and not for their clubs. But either it is a club football or a world cup football the unsung heroes are always the men in black who made the decisions under tremendous stress and pressure. Yes, we are talking about the match referees who are going to officiate in the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Here is the complete list of the match referees and assistant match referees at your disposal.
| Country | Name of the Referee | International Referee Since | ||
| African Zone – Referees | ||||
| Cameroon | Alioum Alioum | 2008 | ||
| South Africa | Daniel Frazer Bennett | 2003 | ||
| Cote d’Ivoire | Noumandiez Desire Doue | 2004 | ||
| Gambia | Bakary Gassama | 2007 | ||
| Algeria | Djamel Haimoudi | 2004 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| Morocco | Redouane Achik | 2007 | ||
| Burundi | Jean Claude Birumushahu | 2004 | ||
| Senegal | Djibril Camara | 2009 | ||
| Algeria | Abdelhak Etchiali | 2009 | ||
| Rwanda | Felicien Kabanda | 2002 | ||
| Cameroon | Evarist Mendkouande | 2004 | ||
| Kenya | Marwa Range | 2008 | ||
| Cote d’Ivoire | Sontuifolo Yeo | 2004 | ||
| Asian Zone – Referees | ||||
| Iran | Alireza Faghani | 2008 | ||
| Uzbekistan | Ravshan Irmatov | 2003 | ||
| Japan | Yuichi Nishimura | 2004 | ||
| Bahrain | Nawaf Abdulla Ghayyath Shukralla | 2007 | ||
| Australia | Benjamin Jon Williams | 2005 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| Bahrain | Yaser Khalil Ebrahim Abdulla Tulefat | 2008 | ||
| Australia | Hakan Anaz | 2005 | ||
| Australia | Matthew James Cream | 2000 | ||
| Iran | Hassan Kamranifar | 2001 | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | Bakhadyr Kochkarov | 1997 | ||
| Japan | Toshiyuki Nagi | 2003 | ||
| Uzbekistan | Abuxamidullo Rasulov | 2005 | ||
| Japan | Toru Sagara | 2007 | ||
| Bahrain | Ebrahim Mubarak Sabt Moosa Saleh | 2009 | ||
| European Zone – Referees | ||||
| Germany | Felix Brych | 2007 | ||
| Turkey | Cuneyt Cakir | 2006 | ||
| Sweden | Jonas Eriksson | 2002 | ||
| Netherlands | Bjorn Kuipers | 2006 | ||
| Serbia | Milonard Mazic | 2009 | ||
| Norway | Svein Oddvar Moen | 2005 | ||
| Portugal | Pedro Proenca | 2003 | ||
| Italy | Nicola Rizzoli | 2007 | ||
| Spain | Carlos Velasco Carballo | 2008 | ||
| England | Howard Melton Webb | 2005 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| Spain | Roberto Alonso Fernandez | 2007 | ||
| Germany | Mark Borsch | 2008 | ||
| England | Darren Cann | 2005 | ||
| Portugal | Bertino Cunha Miranda | 1999 | ||
| Serbia | Dalibor Djurdjevic | 2011 | ||
| Turkey | Bahattin Duran | 2003 | ||
| Italy | Renato Faverani | 2007 | ||
| Portugal | Jose Tiago Garcias Bolinhas Trigo | 2006 | ||
| Norway | Kim Haglund | 2007 | ||
| Sweden | Mathias Klasenius | 2007 | ||
| Germany | Stefan Lupp | 2011 | ||
| England | Michael Mullarkey | 2007 | ||
| Turkey | Tarik Ongun | 2008 | ||
| Serbia | Milovan Ristic | 2009 | ||
| Italy | Andrea Stefani | 2007 | ||
| Netherlands | Sander Van Roekel | 2007 | ||
| Sweden | Daniel Warnmark | 2010 | ||
| Spain | Juan Yuste | 2004 | ||
| Netherlands | Erwin Zeinstra | 2010 | ||
| North, Central American and Caribbean Zone – Referees | ||||
| El Salvador | Joel Antonio Aguilar Chicas | 2001 | ||
| USA | Mark Geiger | 2008 | ||
| Guatemala | Walter Lopez | 2006 | ||
| Panama | Roberto Moreno Salazar | 1996 | ||
| Mexico | Marco Antonio Rodriguez Moreno | 1999 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| USA | Eric Boria | 2011 | ||
| Canada | Joseph Fletcher | 2007 | ||
| USA | Mark Sean Hurd | 2009 | ||
| Costa Rica | Leonel Leal Bermudez | 2001 | ||
| Mexico | Marcos Quintero Muitron | 2009 | ||
| Mexico | Marvin Cesar Torrentera Rivera | 2006 | ||
| El Salvador | William Alexander Torres Mejia | 2006 | ||
| El Salvador | Juan Francisco Zumba Galan | 2007 | ||
| Oceanian Zone – Referees | ||||
| Tahiti | Norbert Hauata | 2008 | ||
| New Zealand | Peter O Leary | 2003 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| New Zealand | Jan Handrik Hintz | 2008 | ||
| New Zealand | Mark Rule | 2008 | ||
| South American Zone – Referees | ||||
| Peru | Victor Hugo Carrillo Casanova | 2005 | ||
| Chile | Enrique Osses | 2005 | ||
| Argentina | Nestor Pittana | 2010 | ||
| Sandro Ricci | Brazil | 2011 | ||
| Colombia | Wilmar Alexander Roldan Perez | 2008 | ||
| Ecuador | Carlos Alfredo Vera Rodriguez | 2006 | ||
| Assistant Referees | ||||
| Paraguay | Rodney Aquino | 2009 | ||
| Chile | Carlos Alexis Astroza Cardenas | 2011 | ||
| Argentina | Juan Pablo Belatti | 2011 | ||
| Brazil | Emerson De Carvalho | 2008 | ||
| Columbia | Humberto Clavijo Preito | 2008 | ||
| Columbia | Eduardo Diaz Barrero | 2006 | ||
| Ecuador | Christian Daniel Lescano Guerrero | 2009 | ||
| Argentina | Hernan Pablo Maidana | 2007 | ||
| Chile | Sergio Mauricio Roman Retamal | 2007 | ||
| Ecuador | Byron Norberto Romero Ibarra | 2009 | ||
| Brazil | Marcelo Van Gasse | 2011 | ||
