Referees Seasons

Rankings ➔

The list shows data counting from season 1964-65

#	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	Anthony Taylor	20/10/1978	Manchester	England	17	426
4	Michael Oliver	20/02/1985	Ashington	England	16	422
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	Mark Clattenburg	13/03/1975	Consett	England	13	291
10	Lee Stephen Mason	29/10/1971	Portsmouth	England	16	290
11	Craig Pawson	02/03/1979	Sheffield	England	14	285
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	16	239
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	14	205
25	Michael J. Jones	18/04/1968	Chester	England	10	203
26	Stephen W. Dunn	24/10/1957	Bristol	England	10	198
27	Stephen John Lodge	26/09/1952	Barnsley	England	13	190
28	Paul Tierney	25/12/1980	Wigan	England	11	190
29	Chris Kavanagh	04/09/1985	Ashton-under-Lyne	England	10	187
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	176
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	Keith Stuart Hackett	22/06/1944	Sheffield	England	18	147
40	Joseph Bertram Worrall	21/10/1945	Warrington	England	19	143
41	Alan Gunn	23/01/1943	Brighton	England	17	140
42	Simon Hooper	15/07/1982	Swindon	England	10	140
43	William Keith Burge	10/08/1950	Tonypandy	Wales	13	137
44	Gerald Royston Ashby	06/11/1949	Worcester	England	13	135
45	Brian Hill	29/04/1947	Barton Seagrave	England	17	134
46	Neil Swarbrick	20/12/1965	Preston	England	8	132
47	Andrew Madley	05/09/1983	Huddersfield	England	9	129
48	Keith Cooper	21/03/1948	Pontypridd	Wales	14	128
49	Clive Thomas	27/06/1936	Treorchy	Wales	18	124
50	John Keith Taylor	21/05/1930	Wolverhampton	England	14	123
51	Andrew Paul D'Urso	30/11/1963	Hackney	England	7	119
52	Roger G. Milford	1940	Oldland Common	England	13	117
53	George Courtney	04/06/1941	Spennymoor	England	17	117
54	Peter Bankes	18/05/1982	Lancashire	England	7	115
55	Johnathan Edward Martin	18/07/1939	Alton	England	15	112
56	David Coote	11/07/1982	Newark-on-Trent	England	8	112
57	Raymond S. Lewis	30/03/1944	Great Bookham	England	17	110
58	Lawrence Roger Dilkes	16/08/1948	Mossley	England	14	110
59	Robert Jones	04/04/1987	Chester	England	7	107
60	Kenneth Howard Burns	1931	Wordsley	England	14	107
61	Victor G. Callow	1945	Solihull	England	15	106
62	Graham David Scott	10/10/1968	Oxfordshire	England	10	106
63	Robert Alan Hart	09/10/1947	Darlington	England	10	104
64	William John Gow	03/10/1930	Swansea	Wales	14	103
65	Paul Edward Alcock	27/10/1953	Redhill	England	8	103
66	Patrick Partridge	30/06/1933	Billingham	England	15	102
67	Gary Stephen Willard	03/09/1959	Worthing	England	6	100
68	Terence J. Holbrook	06/12/1945	Wolverhampton	England	12	98
69	Keith Styles		Barnsley	England	14	97
70	Darren England	23/12/1985	Doncaster	England	7	96
71	Neil Midgley	09/09/1942	Salford	England	15	93
72	Robert Madley	06/10/1985	Wakefield	England	8	93
73	Raymond Tinkler	1929	Boston	England	12	93
74	Philip Don	10/03/1952	Sheffield	England	9	93
75	Keren P. J. Barratt	02/1946	Coventry	England	13	92
76	Michael G. Peck	06/09/1945	Kendal	England	16	91
77	Roger East	12/05/1965	Wiltshire	England	7	91
78	John Hunting	15/08/1935	Leicester	England	15	89
79	Lester C. Shapter	10/1939	Paignton	England	17	88
80	David William Smith	10/11/1926	Stonehouse	England	10	85
81	Kelvin Morton	01/1946	Great Barton	England	9	84
82	Ronald Challis	1932	Tonbridge	England	13	83
83	David B. Allison	27/09/1948	Lancaster	England	14	82
84	Jarred Gavan Gillett	01/11/1986	Gold Coast		5	81
85	Kenneth A. Redfern	1943	Whitley Bay	England	15	80
86	Edward David Wallace		Swindon	England	12	79
87	Harrison New	1927	Bristol	England	11	79
88	Rodger B. Gifford	12/04/1948	Ystrad Mynach	Wales	11	76
89	Kenneth William Baker	1939	Rugby	England	15	75
90	Trelford Mills	02/01/1942	Barnsley	England	14	75
91	Barry Knight	07/05/1960	Orpington	England	7	74
92	Roger Kirkpatrick	1931	Narborouth Road South	England	13	74
93	Norman Charles Henry Burtenshaw	09/02/1926	Great Yarmouth	England	9	73
94	Bartley John Homewood	03/07/1932	Sunbury-on-Thames	England	13	72
95	John Edmund Cornwall Brooks	1990	Melton Mowbray	England	5	71
96	Vincent James	1927	York	England	10	71
97	Harold Davey	1930	Hucknall	England	10	71
98	Robert Matthewson	13/04/1930	Ainsworth	England	9	70
99	Brian T. Stevens	13/09/1939	Leonard Stanley	England	14	68
100	Ian James Borrett	1945	Harleston	England	12	66
101	George M. Tyson	22/05/1939	Sunderland	England	12	66
102	Gordon Cecil Kew	04/06/1930	South Shields	England	11	66
103	Gordon Wilkinson Hill	08/07/1928	Bolton	England	9	66
104	Paul Steven Danson	02/05/1958	Leicester	England	7	65
105	Anthony W. Ward	05/12/1941	London	England	11	64
106	Brian H. Daniels	1936	Rainham	England	14	64
107	Alan Robinson	26/11/1937	Waterlooville	England	12	64
108	Neville James Ashley	30/09/1938	Nantwich	England	12	63
109	Thomas Henry Charles Reynolds	06/03/1934	Swansea	Wales	11	63
110	David Hutchinson	1940	Burn Bridge	England	12	62
111	James Finney	17/08/1924	St. Helens	England	7	62
112	Trevor David Spencer	07/1937	Salisbury	England	13	61
113	Peter Reeves	12/1932	Leicester	England	9	61
114	Dennis A. Hedges	1941	Oxford	England	11	60
115	Derek Reginald George Nippard	1930	Christchurch	England	10	60
116	Kevin Howley	17/05/1924	Billingham	England	7	60
117	John M. Key	1946	Wickersley	England	12	58
118	Peter N. Willis	26/10/1937	Meadowfield	England	13	58
119	Leo Callaghan	05/02/1924	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	7	58
120	David J. Axcell	1944	Southend	England	11	58
121	Samuel Barrott	1993	Yorkshire	England	3	57
122	Raymond Toseland		Kettering	England	10	56
123	Alan B. Seville	1941	Birmingham	England	13	56
124	Malcolm Vince Sinclair	24/03/1935	Guildford	England	12	55
125	Keith Edwin Walker	21/12/1930	Manchester	England	9	55
126	Michael Salisbury	1985	Penwortham	England	5	54
127	Kenneth Walmsley	1939	Thornton	England	13	54
128	Howard William King	01/09/1946	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	14	53
129	Dennis Turner	1935	Cannock	England	10	53
130	John C. Deakin	1944	Llantwit Major	Wales	12	53
131	Arthur Jones	1930	Aughton	England	13	53
132	Iorwerth Price Jones	18/12/1927	Bedlinog	Wales	9	53
133	Anthony Edward Morrissey		Bramhall	England	10	52
134	Darryl V. Reeves	1940	Denham Green	England	13	52
135	Maurice A. Fussey		Retford	England	8	52
136	Colin Downey	1939	Hounslow	England	10	52
137	Ronald G. Groves	1945	Weston super Mare	England	9	52
138	Robert J. Harris	19/08/1956	Oxford	England	3	51
139	Robert F. Nixon	1944	West Kirby	England	13	51
140	Donald Shaw	1940	Sandbach	England	11	51
141	Peter R. Walters	1930	Bridgwater	England	11	51
142	Harold Prior Hackney	1929	Barnsley	England	10	50
143	Colin N. Seel	1939	Carlisle	England	13	50
144	Thomas W. Dawes	1927	Nelson	England	10	49
145	David Richardson	28/05/1937	Great Harwood	England	11	49
146	Tim Robinson	1984	West Sussex	England	5	49
147	Tony Harrington	1990	Hartlepool	England	5	49
148	Alfred N. Buksh	1945	London	England	10	49
149	Thomas William Bramall	1990	Sheffield	England	4	48
150	John H. Yates	04/07/1930	Redditch	England	11	48
151	Thomas G. Bune		Plaistow	England	10	48
152	Roy Capey		Madeley Heath	England	9	47
153	Dennis Joseph Lyden	19/12/1926	Birmingham	England	8	47
154	Michael Taylor		Deal	England	9	46
155	Harold Williams		Sheffield	England	9	45
156	Michael Lowe		Sheffield	England	9	45
157	Matthew David Messias	07/05/1964	Hatfield	England	5	45
158	David Scott	1942	Burnley	England	10	44
159	Daniel Stephen Charles Vickers	1941	Redbridge	England	10	44
160	Walter Barry Johnson		Kendal	England	9	43
161	Alfred William Grey	02/02/1935	Great Yarmouth	England	10	43
162	Peter Baldwin	1930	Thornton-in-Cleveland	England	10	43
163	Ronald Bridges	10/11/1940	Deeside	Wales	11	42
164	Dennis A. Corbett	1925	Wolverhampton	England	8	42
165	Michael L. James	1945	Horsham	England	11	42
166	Eric Read		Bristol	England	10	41
167	John D. Hough	11/1937	Macclesfield	England	11	40
168	Peter Foakes	11/09/1946	Clacton on Sea	England	7	39
169	Kevin McNally	05/05/1941	Ellesmere Port	England	8	39
170	Vernon J. Batty	1930	Helsby	England	9	38
171	Derek Walter Lloyd	1935	Fernhill Heath	England	8	38
172	Eric Thomas Jennings	22/01/1923	Worcester	England	6	38
173	Arnold Challinor		Maltby	England	7	38
174	John Anthony Moules	1946	Ingatestone	England	11	38
175	Leslie Frederick George Burden	06/1937	Weymouth	England	9	37
176	Anthony Richard Glasson	1935	Salisbury	England	8	37
177	Gilbert James Napthine	01/10/1938	Laughborough	England	9	36
178	Donald J. Biddle		Bristol	England	8	36
179	Jim Ashworth	1944	Rutland	England	8	36
180	Clive Richard Wilkes	1954	Corse	England	4	35
181	John E. Thacker		Scarborough	England	9	34
182	Peter A. Tyldesley	1943	Bredbury	England	12	34
183	George McCabe	13/03/1922	Sheffield	England	5	33
184	John Walter Lloyd	15/02/1948	Wrexham	Wales	9	33
185	Kenneth Salmon		Barnet	England	7	33
186	Claude Lambert Newsome		Telford	England	8	32
187	Frederick M. Nicholson		Manchester	England	8	32
188	William G. Handley		Cannock	England	5	32
189	Mark P. T. Scott	1943	West Bridgford	England	9	31
190	Alex Hamil	1937	Ettingshall Park	England	8	31
191	Jeffrey E. Bray	1939	Hinckley	England	9	31
192	Howard Taylor	1940	Oadby	England	9	31
193	Roy Harper		Sheffield	England	5	31
194	Alan Saunders	1937	Newcastle	England	8	30
195	Brian Martin		Keyworth	England	6	30
196	David T. Phillips	1944	Barnsley	England	7	30
197	Ron C. Crabb	1931	Exeter	England	8	30
198	Stephen Bates		Bristol	England	6	30
199	George Flint		Kirkby-in-Ashfield	England	7	29
200	John Lovatt	1939	Wistaston	England	8	29
201	Cliff Maskell		Cambridge	England	6	29
202	Derek Richardson		Lincoln	England	5	28
203	Ralph B. Lee		Cheadle	England	5	28
204	Kenneth Stokes	1922	Newark	England	3	27
205	Terence Leonard Morris	1940	Rotherham	England	6	27
206	Kevin J. Breen	1948	Maghull	England	7	27
207	Thomas Fitzharris	1945	Ladybridge	England	11	27
208	Ffrangcon Roberts	1941	Prestatyn	Wales	9	26
209	Kenneth Dagnall	30/01/1921	Bolton	England	4	26
210	Robert Norman Perkin		Stafford	England	7	26
211	Stephen J. Tanner	21/10/1970	Briston	England	3	26
212	George Hartley		Wakefield	England	5	26
213	David Laing		Penwortham	England	8	26
214	Norman H. Glover	1943	Adlington	England	9	25
215	Edward Jolly		Manchester	England	5	25
216	Lancelot Maurice Robinson	1941	Sutton Coldfield	England	8	25
217	David Letts		Basingstoke	England	6	25
218	Derek Civil	1934	Great Barr	England	8	25
219	Clive Bradley White	02/05/1940	London	England	7	25
220	Robert L. Hamer	1945	Brislington	England	7	24
221	Leslie J. Hamer		Horwich	England	4	24
222	Frank Cowen		Manchester	England	5	23
223	Darren Bond	1978	Wigan	England	3	23
224	James E. Carr	1921	Sheffield	England	4	23
225	Robert Allan Banks	01/1942	Manchester	England	7	23
226	Arthur E. Dimond		Harlow	England	6	23
227	Derek Owen		Bebington	England	6	23
228	John R. Osborne		Ipswich	England	6	23
229	Peter Richardson		Lincolnshire	England	6	23
230	William S. Castle		Sedgley	England	6	22
231	Charles Henry Nicholls	22/08/1925	Plymouth	England	5	22
232	Raymond L. Johnson	1930	Lowestoft	England	6	22
233	Sydney J. Kayley		Preston	England	8	22
234	Michael Dimblebee	1941	Chells	England	7	22
235	Gwyn Pierce Owen	18/04/1934	Anglesey	England	5	22
236	Arthur L. Hart		Borough Green	England	4	22
237	Jim Bent	1931	Hemel Hempstead	England	5	22
238	Leslie Hayes		Doncaster	England	4	21
239	Raymond Chadwick	18/03/1935	Darwen	England	6	21
240	John David Williams		Wrexham	Wales	4	21
241	Harold Richards		Oldham	England	4	21
242	Paul W. Vanes	1947	Warney	England	7	21
243	Terry Farley	1933	Newton Aycliffe	England	6	20
244	Anthony Philip Oliver	06/03/1931	Leigh-on-Sea	England	5	20
245	Edward Kevin Wolstenholme	1954	Preston	England	2	20
246	Malcolm J. Heath	1943	Stoke-on-Trent	England	8	20
247	Ivan Thomas Smith	1929	Accrington	England	5	19
248	Michael Kerkhof		Bicester	England	6	19
249	Horace Reginald Robinson		Woodbridge	England	5	19
250	George Nolan		Hazel Grove	England	5	19

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
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 (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
2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67 (1 2)	1956-57 (1 2)	1946-47

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)
2016-17 (I II III IV)	2006-07 (I II III IV)	1996-97 (I II III IV)	1986-87

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
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
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
2016-17	2006-07	1996-97	1986-87	1976-77	1966-67