https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Women's_Euro_2017#Match_officials 11 referees and 21 assistants for 24 group stage matches. Germany is the only country with two (Bibiana Steinhaus, Riem Hussein). Report has it that the low number is due to some referees failing the fitness test: http://www.womenssoccerunited.com/updated-euro2017-officials/ Interestingly, Russian referee Anastasia Pustovoitova participated at the 2003 World Cup as a player. At the last World Cup we also had a North Korean referee, Ri Hyang Ok, who also played at the 2003 World Cup.
Matchday 1 Group A Netherlands - Norway: FRAPPART (FRA), KYRIAKOU (CYP), NICOLOSI (ITA), PUSTOVOITOVA (RUS) Denmark - Belgium: MONZUL (UKR), STRILETSKA (UKR), ARDASHEVA (UKR), CLARK (SCO) Group B Italy - Russia: ADAMKOVA (CZE), RATAJOVA (CZE), SUKENIKOVA (SVK), HUSSEIN (GER) Germany - Sweden: KULCSAR (HUN), KULCSAR (HUN), BAKKER (NED), LEHTOVAARA (FIN) Group C Austria - Switzerland: STEINHAUS (GER), MASSEY (ENG), RAFALSKI (GER), CLARK (SCO) France - Iceland: VITULANO (ITA), BILIC (SRB), ABRUZZESE (ITA), MONZUL (UKR) Early big match for Kulcsar. Worth nothing that Hussein is fourth official in a match in the same group as Germany - very unlikely to happen in men's tournaments.
I can't imagine that Steinhaus will be appointed to the final, so I think that the French referee is an early candidate.
Group D Spain - Portugal: LARSSON (SWE), IUGULESCU (ROU), GOMOESCU (ROU), KULCSÁR (HUN) England - Scotland: STAUBLI (SUI), BREM (SUI), RODJAK KARŠIĆ (CRO), ADÁMKOVÁ (CZE)
Matchday 2 Netherlands - Denmark: HUSSEIN (GER), BIEHL (GER), KOUROMPYLIA (GRE), VITULANO (ITA) Norway - Belgium: MULARCZYK (POL), GORSKA (POL), O'NEILL (IRL), LEHTOVAARA (FIN)
Group B Sweden - Russia: FRAPPART (FRA), NICOLOSI (FRA), KYRIAKOU (CYP), CLARK (SCO) Germany - Italy: MONZUL (UKR), STRILETSKA (UKR), ARDASHEVA (UKR), LEHTOVAARA (FIN) Both trios worked the first day of the competition.
What I like about the women is that they donot moan like the men do and thus provide a far more pleasant match to manage as a referee.
Group C Iceland - Switzerland: PUSTOVOITOVA (RUS), KUROCHKINA (RUS), BILIĆ (SRB), CLARK (SCO) France - Austria: ADÁMKOVÁ (CZE), RATAJOVÁ (CZE), SUKENIKOVA (SVK), STEINHAUS (GER)
Are these games being televised in the US? Are there a lot of people interested in it on this side of the pond? PH
ESPN has the rights and all matches are streamed on ESPN3, which answers your first question. I imagine the fair answer to the second question is "no," but that's always relative. DutchRef does have a treasure trove of clips from the tournament, though. Though it's changed some with NWSL, we historically lack really good instructional clips from high-level women's matches. Anyone with a need can pull a variety from his site here: https://vimeo.com/user37841445/videos
Thanks! I know streaming is the TV of the future (and perhaps present and I have ROKU and FIRE) but for now most people won't bother to look for it, but may watch if it is on a regular TV broadcast channel. PH
FWIW re first question. I stumbled across an Android app, Live Soccer TV, which lists broadcast channels of soccer around the world, including YouTube and many others. Don't know about iPhone capability.
Group D Scotland - Portugal: KULCSÁR (HUN), KULCSÁR (HUN), BAKKER (NED), LEHTOVAARA (FIN) England - Spain: VITULANO (ITA), ABRUZZESE (ITA), KOUROMPYLIA (GRE), MULARCZYK (POL)
Matchday 3 Group A Norway - Denmark: LARSSON (SWE), IUGULESCU (ROU), GOMOESCU (ROU), CLARK (SCO) Belgium - Netherlands: STEINHAUS (GER), MASSEY (ENG), RAFALSKI (GER), FRAPPART (FRA)
Group B Sweden - Italy: STAUBLI (SUI), BREM (SUI), RODJAK KARSIC (CRO), LEHTOVAARA (FIN) Russia - Germany: MULARCZYK (POL), DABROWSKA (POL), O'NEILL (IRL), CLARK (SCO) Big match for Mularczyk.
Interesting case in ENG v ESP. A penalty was awarded after an English player slipped while trying to clear the ball from her own penalty area. As she was going to the ground, the ball struck her arm and the CR blew the whistle and pointed to the spot. Assuming after some discussions over the headset, play resumed with a dropped ball.
BBC is reporting that one of the England players helped with the reversal. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40701230
Not a fan of the reversal at all. First I think the call was correct - where does the player slip? It looks like a clumsy attempt to clear with her arm away from her body moving up and toward the ball when contact is made. Are you going to accept a player making themselves bigger like that because they were off balance? Now I realize there is much subjectivity here, if you want to argue that is wasn't deliberate that's fine, you can make a case for that. But the bigger issue is how does a referee at that level decide that it is handling then let herself get talked into changing her mind with no new information? The answer to the classic question "Have you ever seen a ref change their call because you argue?" is now, unfortunately, yes.
Very similar to this one: Deliberate handling or not in Ruhr Derby Except in that case the ref decided that it wasn't deliberate on the field. We don't know if Vitulano changed her mind because of the argument from the English player, from input from her crew, or because she decided, with a little more time, that she didn't think it was deliberate. Changing it because of the players' arguments is the only problematic situation I see - where's the balance between "getting the call right is most important" and "let's turn every call into a committee meeting" (discarding a discussion of whether or not this was deliberate handling; I'm confident we'd be within a standard deviation or two of 50/50).