Referees Seasons

Rankings ➔

The list shows data counting from season 1960-61

#	Name	Date of birth	Place of birth	Province	S	R
1	Michael Leslie Dean	02/06/1968	Wirral	England	22	561
2	Martin Atkinson	31/03/1971	Drighlington	England	18	463
3	Michael Oliver	20/02/1985	Ashington	England	17	434
4	Anthony Taylor	20/10/1978	Manchester	England	17	433
5	Andre Marriner	01/01/1971	Birmingham	England	19	391
6	Graham Poll	29/07/1963	Hitchin	England	14	329
7	Philip Dowd	26/01/1963	Leek	England	14	308
8	Howard Melton Webb	14/07/1971	Yorkshire	England	11	298
9	Craig Pawson	02/03/1979	Sheffield	England	15	293
10	Mark Clattenburg	13/03/1975	Consett	England	13	291
11	Lee Stephen Mason	29/10/1971	Portsmouth	England	16	290
12	Mark Richard Halsey	08/07/1961	Welwyn Garden City	England	14	281
13	Michael Austin Riley	17/12/1964	Leeds	England	13	280
14	Alan G. Wiley	27/05/1960	Burntwood	England	11	275
15	Jonathan Moss	18/10/1970	Sunderland	England	12	274
16	Kevin Friend	08/07/1971	Tottenham	England	13	270
17	Dermot Joseph Gallagher	20/05/1957	Ringsend		16	265
18	Christopher J. Foy	20/11/1962	St. Helens	England	14	262
19	Paul Anthony Durkin	15/08/1955	Bradford Ravenscliffe	England	16	258
20	Stephen Graham Bennett	17/01/1961	Farnborough	England	11	255
21	Stuart Steven Attwell	06/10/1982	Nuneaton	England	17	248
22	David Roland Elleray	03/09/1954	Harrow	England	17	232
23	Robert Styles	21/04/1964	Waterlooville	England	9	211
24	Michael Donald Reed	22/10/1951	West Heath	England	15	207
25	Michael J. Jones	18/04/1968	Chester	England	10	203
26	Chris Kavanagh	04/09/1985	Ashton-under-Lyne	England	11	199
27	Paul Tierney	25/12/1980	Wigan	England	12	199
28	Stephen W. Dunn	24/10/1957	Bristol	England	10	198
29	Stephen John Lodge	26/09/1952	Barnsley	England	14	192
30	Jeffrey Winter	18/04/1955	Middlesbrough	England	9	185
31	Lee William Probert	13/08/1972	South Gloucestershire	England	12	181
32	Uriah Denzel Rennie	23/10/1959			11	177
33	Martin John Dale Bodenham	23/04/1950	Brighton	England	17	177
34	Peter Walton	10/10/1959	Long Buckby	England	9	170
35	Graham Peter Barber	05/06/1958	Tring	England	8	167
36	Alan Wilkie	1951	Chester Le Street	England	11	157
37	Neale Stuart Barry	04/06/1958	Scunthorpe	England	8	157
38	Peter Jones	24/02/1954	Loughborough	England	11	155
39	John Keith Taylor	21/05/1930	Wolverhampton	England	18	153
40	Keith Stuart Hackett	22/06/1944	Sheffield	England	18	152
41	Alan Gunn	23/01/1943	Brighton	England	17	145
42	Joseph Bertram Worrall	21/10/1945	Warrington	England	18	141
43	Simon Hooper	15/07/1982	Swindon	England	10	140
44	Brian Hill	29/04/1947	Barton Seagrave	England	17	139
45	Andrew Madley	05/09/1983	Huddersfield	England	10	138
46	William Keith Burge	10/08/1950	Tonypandy	Wales	13	137
47	Gerald Royston Ashby	06/11/1949	Worcester	England	13	135
48	Clive Thomas	27/06/1936	Treorchy	Wales	18	132
49	Neil Swarbrick	20/12/1965	Preston	England	8	132
50	Keith Cooper	21/03/1948	Pontypridd	Wales	14	131
51	Kenneth Howard Burns	29/10/1931	Wordsley	England	17	128
52	George Courtney	04/06/1941	Spennymoor	England	17	127
53	Roger G. Milford	1940	Oldland Common	England	13	120
54	Peter Bankes	18/05/1982	Lancashire	England	8	119
55	Andrew Paul D'Urso	30/11/1963	Hackney	England	7	119
56	Raymond Tinkler	1929	Boston	England	15	118
57	Raymond S. Lewis	30/03/1944	Great Bookham	England	17	117
58	Johnathan Edward Martin	18/07/1939	Alton	England	15	117
59	Robert Jones	04/04/1987	Chester	England	8	114
60	Lawrence Roger Dilkes	16/08/1948	Mossley	England	14	114
61	David Coote	11/07/1982	Newark-on-Trent	England	8	112
62	William John Gow	03/10/1930	Swansea	Wales	15	111
63	Patrick Partridge	30/06/1933	Billingham	England	15	110
64	David William Smith	10/11/1926	Stonehouse	England	14	109
65	Victor G. Callow	1945	Solihull	England	15	108
66	Graham David Scott	10/10/1968	Oxfordshire	England	10	106
67	Darren England	23/12/1985	Doncaster	England	8	105
68	Robert Alan Hart	09/10/1947	Darlington	England	10	104
69	Harrison George New	08/09/1927	Portsmouth	England	15	104
70	Paul Edward Alcock	27/10/1953	Redhill	England	8	103
71	Keith Styles		Barnsley	England	14	102
72	Terence J. Holbrook	06/12/1945	Wolverhampton	England	12	101
73	Gary Stephen Willard	03/09/1959	Worthing	England	6	100
74	James Finney	17/08/1924	St. Helens	England	11	98
75	Neil Midgley	09/09/1942	Salford	England	15	96
76	Michael G. Peck	06/09/1945	Kendal	England	16	95
77	Keren P. J. Barratt	02/1946	Coventry	England	13	94
78	Leo Callaghan	05/02/1924	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	11	94
79	Robert Madley	06/10/1985	Wakefield	England	8	93
80	Philip Don	10/03/1952	Sheffield	England	9	93
81	Norman Charles Henry Burtenshaw	09/02/1926	Great Yarmouth	England	11	92
82	John Hunting	15/08/1935	Leicester	England	15	92
83	Kevin Howley	17/05/1924	Billingham	England	11	91
84	Roger East	12/05/1965	Wiltshire	England	7	91
85	Lester C. Shapter	10/1939	Paignton	England	17	91
86	Jarred Gavan Gillett	01/11/1986	Gold Coast		6	90
87	Ronald Challis	1932	Tonbridge	England	13	87
88	Kenneth A. Redfern	1943	Whitley Bay	England	15	86
89	Vincent James	1927	York	England	13	86
90	Edward David Wallace		Swindon	England	12	86
91	Kelvin Morton	01/1946	Great Barton	England	9	84
92	David B. Allison	27/09/1948	Lancaster	England	14	84
93	Kenneth William Baker	15/12/1938	Rugby	England	15	80
94	Bartley John Homewood	03/07/1932	Sunbury-on-Thames	England	13	79
95	Trelford Mills	02/01/1942	Barnsley	England	14	78
96	John Edmund Cornwall Brooks	1990	Melton Mowbray	England	6	78
97	Roger Brian Kirkpatrick	08/08/1931	Leicester	England	13	77
98	Rodger B. Gifford	12/04/1948	Ystrad Mynach	Wales	11	77
99	Thomas Henry Charles Reynolds	06/03/1934	Swansea	Wales	14	76
100	Maurice Alonzo Robinson Fussey	13/11/1924	Retford	England	12	75
101	Barry Knight	07/05/1960	Orpington	England	7	74
102	Thomas Walter Dawes	04/12/1926	Nelson	England	14	74
103	Brian Thomas Stevens	13/09/1939	Leonard Stanley	England	14	74
104	Robert Matthewson	13/04/1930	Ainsworth	England	9	72
105	George Michael Tyson	22/05/1939	Sunderland	England	12	72
106	Harold Prior Hackney	14/09/1929	Barnsley	England	14	72
107	Gordon Cecil Kew	04/06/1930	South Shields	England	11	72
108	Gordon Wilkinson Hill	08/07/1928	Bolton	England	9	71
109	Harold Davey	1930	Hucknall	England	10	71
110	Neville James Ashley	30/09/1938	Nantwich	England	12	70
111	Eric Thomas Jennings	22/01/1923	Worcester	England	10	69
112	Brian H. Daniels	1936	Rainham	England	15	69
113	Trevor David Spencer	07/1937	Salisbury	England	14	69
114	Alan Robinson	26/11/1937	Waterlooville	England	12	68
115	Ian James Borrett	01/10/1945	Hartismere	England	12	68
116	Samuel Barrott	1993	Yorkshire	England	4	66
117	Anthony W. Ward	05/12/1941	London	England	12	66
118	David Hutchinson	29/07/1940	Burn Bridge	England	12	66
119	Keith Edwin Walker	21/12/1930	Manchester	England	13	66
120	Paul Steven Danson	02/05/1958	Leicester	England	7	65
121	Peter Geoffrey Reeves	12/1932	Leicester	England	9	64
122	John M. Key	1946	Wickersley	England	12	63
123	Peter Norman Willis	26/10/1937	Newfield	England	13	63
124	Dennis A. Hedges	29/10/1941	Oxford	England	11	62
125	Derek Reginald George Nippard	1931	Christchurch	England	10	62
126	Malcolm Vince Sinclair	24/03/1935	Guildford	England	12	61
127	Alan B. Seville	1941	Birmingham	England	13	61
128	Michael Salisbury	1985	Penwortham	England	6	61
129	Iorwerth Price Jones	18/12/1927	Bedlinog	Wales	9	60
130	David J. Axcell	1944	Southend	England	11	60
131	George McCabe	13/03/1922	Sheffield	England	9	60
132	Arthur Wynne Smith Jones	25/04/1930	Aughton	England	14	59
133	Peter R. Walters	1930	Bridgwater	England	11	59
134	John C. Deakin	1944	Llantwit Major	Wales	12	58
135	Raymond Toseland		Kettering	England	10	58
136	Peter Baldwin	1930	Thornton-in-Cleveland	England	12	58
137	Anthony Edward Morrissey		Bramhall	England	11	58
138	Darryl Victor Reeves	06/06/1940	Elton	England	13	57
139	Dennis Turner	1935	Cannock	England	11	56
140	David Richardson	28/05/1937	Great Harwood	England	11	56
141	Howard William King	01/09/1946	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	14	56
142	Thomas William Bramall	1990	Sheffield	England	5	56
143	Colin Downey	1939	Hounslow	England	10	55
144	Colin N. Seel	1939	Carlisle	England	13	55
145	Donald Shaw	1940	Sandbach	England	11	55
146	Kenneth Walmsley	1939	Leigh	England	13	54
147	Ronald G. Groves	1945	Weston super Mare	England	9	53
148	Thomas G. Bune		Plaistow	England	10	53
149	Alfred N. Buksh	1945	London	England	10	52
150	Tony Harrington	1984	Hartlepool	England	6	52
151	Michael J. Taylor	1945	St. Albans	England	10	52
152	Robert F. Nixon	1944	West Kirby	England	13	52
153	Robert J. Harris	19/08/1956	Oxford	England	3	51
154	Roy Capey	04/08/1931	Madeley Heath	England	10	51
155	John H. Yates	04/07/1930	Redditch	England	11	51
156	Dennis Joseph Lyden	19/12/1926	Birmingham	England	9	51
157	Kenneth Stokes	1922	Newark	England	7	50
158	Dennis A. Corbett	1925	Wolverhampton	England	9	50
159	Michael Lowe		Sheffield	England	9	49
160	Leslie James Hamer	05/02/1921	Horwich	England	8	49
161	Tim Robinson	01/01/1984	West Sussex	England	5	49
162	Harold Williams		Sheffield	England	9	48
163	Daniel Stephen Charles Vickers	1941	West Ham	England	11	48
164	Walter Barry Johnson	23/03/1931	Kendal	England	9	46
165	Kenneth Dagnall	30/01/1921	Bolton	England	8	46
166	Frank Cowen		Manchester	England	9	46
167	James E. Carr	1921	Sheffield	England	8	46
168	Vernon J. Batty	1930	Helsby	England	11	45
169	Alfred William Grey	02/02/1935	Great Yarmouth	England	10	45
170	Matthew David Messias	07/05/1964	Hatfield	England	5	45
171	John David Hough	13/11/1937	Macclesfield	England	11	45
172	David Scott	1942	Burnley	England	10	44
173	Michael L. James	1945	Horsham	England	11	43
174	Roy Harper		Sheffield	England	8	43
175	William George Handley	1922	Cannock	England	7	43
176	Eric Read		Bristol	England	10	43
177	Ronald Bridges	10/11/1940	Deeside	Wales	11	43
178	Ernest Crawford		Doncaster	England	6	42
179	Kevin McNally	05/05/1941	Ellesmere Port	England	8	41
180	Derek Walter Lloyd	1935	Fernhill Heath	England	8	41
181	John Anthony Moules	1946	Ingatestone	England	11	41
182	Leslie Frederick George Burden	06/1937	Weymouth	England	9	40
183	Arnold Challinor		Maltby	England	7	40
184	John E. Thacker		Scarborough	England	11	39
185	Peter Foakes	11/09/1946	Clacton on Sea	England	7	39
186	Peter A. Tyldesley	1943	Bredbury	England	12	39
187	John Richard Osborne	04/08/1926	Ipswich	England	9	39
188	Richard Henry Windle	25/06/1923	Chesterfield	England	7	38
189	James Ashworth	1944	Rutland	England	8	38
190	Kenneth Salmon		Barnet	England	8	38
191	Anthony Richard Glasson	1935	Salisbury	England	8	38
192	Donald John Biddle	03/01/1933	Bristol	England	8	38
193	Claude Lambert Newsome		Telford	England	8	36
194	Gilbert James Napthine	01/10/1938	Loughborough	England	9	36
195	Clive Richard Wilkes	1954	Corse	England	4	35
196	Arthur William Sparling	29/09/1918	Grimsby	England	6	34
197	Ron C. Crabb	1931	Exeter	England	8	34
198	Howard Taylor	1940	Oadby	England	9	34
199	Jeffrey E. Bray	1939	Hinckley	England	9	34
200	Mark P. T. Scott	1943	West Bridgford	England	9	33
201	Frederick M. Nicholson		Manchester	England	8	33
202	John Walter Lloyd	15/02/1948	Wrexham	Wales	9	33
203	John Lovatt	1939	Wistaston	England	8	33
204	Peter Rhodes	1921	Leeds	England	7	33
205	Geoffrey D. Roper		Newmarket	England	7	32
206	George Hartley	25/06/1929	Wakefield	England	8	32
207	Alan Saunders	1937	Gateshead	England	8	32
208	Kenneth J. Seddon		Southport	England	7	32
209	George Flint		Kirkby-in-Ashfield	England	7	31
210	Stephen Bates		Bristol	England	6	31
211	Alexander John Hamil	15/08/1935	Wednesford	England	8	31
212	David Timothy Phillips	1944	Barnsley	England	7	31
213	Cliff Maskell		Cambridge	England	6	31
214	William Clements	27/10/1919	West Brownwich	England	6	31
215	Brian Martin		Keyworth	England	6	31
216	Peter Bye	13/05/1927	Burwell	England	7	30
217	John Mitchell	1920	Prescot	England	7	30
218	Clive Bradley White	02/05/1940	London	England	8	29
219	Peter George Brandwood	19/11/1921	Wolverhampton	England	6	29
220	Norman H. Glover	1943	Chorley	England	9	28
221	Ffrangcon Roberts	1941	Prestatyn	Wales	9	28
222	Harold Richards	04/12/1920	Oldham	England	7	28
223	David Laing		Penwortham	England	8	28
224	Kevin J. Breen	1948	Maghull	England	7	28
225	David Letts		Basingstoke	England	6	28
226	Derek Richardson		Lincoln	England	5	28
227	Ralph B. Lee		Cheadle	England	5	28
228	Thomas Fitzharris	1945	Ladybridge	England	11	27
229	Robert Norman Perkin		Stafford	England	7	27
230	Terence Leonard Morris	1940	Rotherham	England	6	27
231	Rex V. Spittle		Great Yarmouth	England	7	27
232	James Albert Cattlin	23/06/1920	Rochdale	England	7	27
233	William Stephen Castle	20/07/1920	Bilston	England	7	26
234	Sydney James Kayley	1926	Preston	England	9	26
235	Lancelot Maurice Robinson	1941	Sutton Coldfield	England	8	26
236	Arthur Edward Dimond	01/11/1925	Harlow	England	6	26
237	Walter Crossley		Lancaster	England	5	26
238	Derek Owen		Bebington	England	6	26
239	Edward Jolly		Manchester	England	5	26
240	Stephen J. Tanner	21/10/1970	Briston	England	3	26
241	Robert L. Hamer	1944	Brislington	England	7	25
242	Charles Henry Nicholls	22/08/1925	Plymouth	England	6	25
243	Arthur Walter Luty	18/01/1918	Leeds	England	5	25
244	Malcolm J. Heath	1943	Stoke-on-Trent	England	8	25
245	Derek Civil	29/04/1935	Great Barr	England	8	25
246	John Stuart Pickles	21/08/1926	Halifax	England	6	25
247	Anthony Philip Oliver	06/03/1931	Chelmsford	England	5	24
248	John David Williams		Wrexham	Wales	4	24
249	Arthur L. Hart		Borough Green	England	4	24
250	Arthur Guillard Holland	18/07/1922	Birmingham	England	4	24

2026-27	2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67	1956-57	1946-47
2025-26	2015-16	2005-06	1995-96	1985-86	1975-76	1965-66	1955-56	1945-46	1935-36
2024-25	2014-15	2004-05	1994-95	1984-85	1974-75	1964-65	1954-55	1944-45	1934-35
2023-24	2013-14	2003-04	1993-94	1983-84	1973-74	1963-64	1953-54	1943-44	1933-34
2022-23	2012-13	2002-03	1992-93	1982-83	1972-73	1962-63	1952-53	1942-43	1932-33
2021-22	2011-12	2001-02	1991-92	1981-82	1971-72	1961-62	1951-52	1941-42	1931-32
2020-21	2010-11	2000-01	1990-91	1980-81	1970-71	1960-61	1950-51	1940-41	1930-31
2019-20	2009-10	1999-00	1989-90	1979-80	1969-70	1959-60	1949-50	1939-40	1929-30
2018-19	2008-09	1998-99	1988-89	1978-79	1968-69	1958-59	1948-49		1928-29
2017-18	2007-08	1997-98	1987-88	1977-78	1967-68	1957-58	1947-48

2026-27	2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67 (1 2)	1956-57 (1 2)	1946-47
2025-26	2015-16	2005-06	1995-96	1985-86	1975-76	1965-66 (1 2)	1955-56 (1 2)	1945-46	1935-36 (1 2 3)
2024-25	2014-15	2004-05	1994-95	1984-85	1974-75	1964-65 (1 2)	1954-55 (1 2)	1944-45	1934-35 (1 2 3)
2023-24	2013-14	2003-04	1993-94	1983-84	1973-74	1963-64 (1 2)	1953-54 (1 2)	1943-44	1933-34
2022-23	2012-13	2002-03	1992-93	1982-83	1972-73	1962-63 (1 2)	1952-53 (1 2)	1942-43 (1 2 3)	1932-33
2021-22	2011-12	2001-02	1991-92	1981-82	1971-72	1961-62 (1 2)	1951-52 (1 2)	1941-42 (1 2 3)	1931-32
2020-21	2010-11	2000-01	1990-91	1980-81	1970-71	1960-61 (1 2)	1950-51 (1 2)	1940-41 (1 2)	1930-31
2019-20	2009-10	1999-00	1989-90	1979-80	1969-70	1959-60 (1 2)	1949-50 (1 2)	1939-40 (1 2 3 4 5)	1929-30
2018-19	2008-09	1998-99	1988-89	1978-79	1968-69	1958-59 (1 2)	1948-49		1928-29 (A B)
2017-18	2007-08	1997-98	1987-88	1977-78	1967-68 (1 2)	1957-58 (1 2)	1947-48

2026-27 (I II III IV V)	2016-17 (I II III IV)	2006-07 (I II III IV)	1996-97 (I II III IV)	1986-87
2025-26 (I II III IV V)	2015-16 (I II III IV)	2005-06 (I II III IV)	1995-96 (I II III IV)	1985-86 (I II)
2024-25 (I II III IV V)	2014-15 (I II III IV)	2004-05 (I II III IV)	1994-95 (I II III IV)	1984-85 (I II)
2023-24 (I II III IV V)	2013-14 (I II III IV)	2003-04 (I II III IV)	1993-94 (I II III IV)	1983-84 (I II)
2022-23 (I II III IV V)	2012-13 (I II III IV)	2002-03 (I II III IV)	1992-93 (I II III IV)	1982-83 (I II)
2021-22 (I II III IV V)	2011-12 (I II III IV)	2001-02 (I II III IV)	1991-92 (I II III IV)	1981-82 (I II)
2020-21 (I II III IV V)	2010-11 (I II III IV)	2000-01 (I II III IV)	1990-91 (I II III IV)	1980-81 (I II)
2019-20 (I II III IV)	2009-10 (I II III IV)	1999-00 (I II III IV)	1989-90 (I II III IV)	1979-80 (I II)
2018-19 (I II III IV)	2008-09 (I II III IV)	1998-99 (I II III IV)	1988-89 (I II III IV)	1978-79 (I II)
2017-18 (I II III IV)	2007-08 (I II III IV)	1997-98 (I II III IV)	1987-88 (I II III IV)	1977-78 (I II)

2026-27	2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67
2025-26	2015-16	2005-06	1995-96	1985-86	1975-76	1965-66
2024-25	2014-15	2004-05	1994-95	1984-85	1974-75	1964-65
2023-24	2013-14	2003-04	1993-94	1983-84	1973-74	1963-64
2022-23	2012-13	2002-03	1992-93	1982-83	1972-73	1962-63
2021-22	2011-12	2001-02	1991-92	1981-82	1971-72	1961-62
2020-21	2010-11	2000-01	1990-91	1980-81	1970-71	1960-61
2019-20	2009-10	1999-00	1989-90	1979-80	1969-70
2018-19	2008-09	1998-99	1988-89	1978-79	1968-69
2017-18	2007-08	1997-98	1987-88	1977-78	1967-68

2026-27	2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67
2025-26	2015-16	2005-06	1995-96	1985-86	1975-76	1965-66
2024-25	2014-15	2004-05	1994-95	1984-85	1974-75	1964-65
2023-24	2013-14	2003-04	1993-94	1983-84	1973-74	1963-64
2022-23	2012-13	2002-03	1992-93	1982-83	1972-73
2021-22	2011-12	2001-02	1991-92	1981-82	1971-72
2020-21	2010-11	2000-01	1990-91	1980-81	1970-71
2019-20	2009-10	1999-00	1989-90	1979-80	1969-70
2018-19	2008-09	1998-99	1988-89	1978-79	1968-69
2017-18	2007-08	1997-98	1987-88	1977-78	1967-68