UEFA issues full list of EURO match officials

UEFA has declared the assistant referees and extra assistant referees who will be in action for the UEFA EURO 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine this summer season.

They be a part of the twelve referees who have been decided on through the UEFA Referees Committee very last December. The committee has arrive to its determination within the assistant referees and more assistant referees following closely monitoring their progress in latest UEFA club competitors matches.

Every single staff is designed up of five match officials from the same country: just one most important referee, two more assistant referees who will be also FIFA referees, and two FIFA assistant referees. Also, a third assistant referee from each individual place has also been named, and he will remain on standby until eventually the start of the tournament to take the place of a colleague if needed.

A complete of 80 match officials - the 6 officers in each and every crew, in addition to the formerly picked 4 fourth officers and four reserve assistant referees - will attend the UEFA EURO 2012 Referee Preparatory Workshop which will be held in Warsaw from 30 April to 3 May. For the duration of this class, on 2 May, all officers will undertake the FIFA conditioning test along with the last variety of quintets will comply with that test.

The additional assistant referees are currently being deployed at UEFA EURO 2012 as aspect of a continuing experiment, authorised by football's lawmakers, the Intercontinental Football Association Board (IFAB). The additional assistants stand on the goal line and aid the referee within the decision-making approach, in particular regarding penalty-area incidents.

UEFA EURO 2012, featuring 16 groups, might be played at 8 venues - Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw (Poland), and Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv (Ukraine) - in between 8 June and 1 July.

Fixtures

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

FA Tesco Women's Premier League

Doncaster Rovers Belles v Everton Ladies, 19:45

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Sunday, 10 May 2009

FA Tesco Women's Premier League

Everton Ladies v Arsenal Ladies, 14:00

Arsenal Win FA Women's Cup

Arsenal Ladies beat Northern Division side Sunderland 2-1 at Derby's Pride Park to win their fourth FA Women's Cup final in succession.

Katie Chapman put Arsenal ahead after Sunderland goalkeeper Helen Alderson could only parry Gemma Davison's shot.

The Premier League side missed several chances before Kim Little sealed the win in injury time with a neat turn and finish after controlling a high ball.

Kelly McDougall got a consolation with the last kick of the match.

The trophy was the 30th of Vic Akers' spell as manager and came in his penultimate match in charge of the side.

The 62-year-old, who founded the women's team 22 years ago and led them to a quadruple in 2006-07, will hope to make it 31 next week when Arsenal take on Everton in the final match of the Premier League season.

FA Women's Cup

The Football Association Women’s Challenge Cup Competition, commonly referred to as the FA Women's Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football clubs in England - designed as an exact equivalent to the FA Cup created 99 years earlier.

Since the creation of the FA Women's Premier League in 1993, the semi-professional teams affiliated with male Premiership and Football League counterparts have dominated the competition. Arsenal won the 2004 competition, beating Charlton Athletic 3-0 in the final on May 3. On May 2,2005, Charlton Athletic made amends for the disappointment of the two previous years, by beating Everton 1-0. Arsenal regained the trophy on May 1, 2006, beating Leeds United 5-0.

In recent years the final of the tournament has been covered by BBC TV, presented by Celina Hinchcliffe, Rebecca Lowe and commentary by Steve Lee. The final has also been simulcast on BBC Radio Five Live. From 2009, the final will move to ITV1.

The FA Women's Cup shares sponsorship with its men's equivalent (for 2006 to 2010, E.ON). The current cup holders are Arsenal. They beat Leeds United 4-1 on May 05, 2008.

Results

Date	Event	Team	Result		Team
04/05/2009	Final	Arsenal LFC		2-1	Sunderland WFC
22/03/2009	Semi Final	Arsenal LFC		3-1	Everton LFC
22/03/2009	Semi final	Sunderland WFC		3-0	Chelsea LFC
22/02/2009	Sixth Round Proper	Arsenal LFC		3-1	Leeds Carnegie Ladies
22/02/2009	Sixth Round Proper	Sunderland WFC		4-2	Bristol Academy LFC
22/02/2009	Sixth Round Proper	Chelsea LFC		3-1	Ooh Lincoln Ladies
22/02/2009	Sixth Round Proper	Blackburn Rovers LFC		0-2	Everton LFC

Results

Monday, 04/05/2009 FA Women’s Cup	Final	Arsenal LFC	2 - 1	Sunderland WFC
Saturday, 02/05/2009 FA County Youth Cup	Final	Kent FA	1 - 2	Birmingham FA
Friday, 24/04/2009 FA Youth Cup	Semi Final	Liverpool	3-1	Birmingham City
Wednesday, 22/04/2009 FA Youth Cup	Semi Final	Arsenal	4-1	Manchester City
Saturday, 18/04/2009 FA Cup	Semi Final	Arsenal	1-2	Chelsea

FA Cup Final 2008

Event: Cardiff City Vs Portsmouth

Date: 17 May 2008
Portsmouth Goals: 1
Cardiff City Goals: 0
Venue: Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match: Nwankwo Kanu (Portsmouth)
Referee: Mike Dean (Cheshire)
Attendance: 89,874

The 2008 FA Cup Final was a football match held at Wembley Stadium on 17 May 2008 and was the final match of the 2007–08 FA Cup competition. The match was the 127th FA Cup Final, and the second to be held at the new Wembley Stadium since its redevelopment. The match was contested by Portsmouth and Cardiff City, with Portsmouth winning 1–0. This was the first time that the two sides have ever met in the competition, as both teams were aiming to win the FA Cup for the second time, Cardiff having won it in 1927 and Portsmouth in 1939. Had Cardiff won, they would have been the first club from outside the top division of English football to have won the competition since West Ham United in 1980.