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	433
4	Michael Oliver	20/02/1985	Ashington	England	16	428
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	289
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	244
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	206
25	Michael J. Jones	18/04/1968	Chester	England	10	203
26	Stephen W. Dunn	24/10/1957	Bristol	England	10	198
27	Paul Tierney	25/12/1980	Wigan	England	11	195
28	Chris Kavanagh	04/09/1985	Ashton-under-Lyne	England	10	194
29	Stephen John Lodge	26/09/1952	Barnsley	England	13	190
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	149
40	Joseph Bertram Worrall	21/10/1945	Warrington	England	19	143
41	Alan Gunn	23/01/1943	Brighton	England	17	141
42	Simon Hooper	15/07/1982	Swindon	England	10	140
43	William Keith Burge	10/08/1950	Tonypandy	Wales	13	137
44	Brian Hill	29/04/1947	Barton Seagrave	England	17	136
45	Gerald Royston Ashby	06/11/1949	Worcester	England	13	135
46	Andrew Madley	05/09/1983	Huddersfield	England	9	134
47	Neil Swarbrick	20/12/1965	Preston	England	8	132
48	Keith Cooper	21/03/1948	Pontypridd	Wales	14	128
49	Clive Thomas	27/06/1936	Treorchy	Wales	18	125
50	George Courtney	04/06/1941	Spennymoor	England	17	123
51	John Keith Taylor	21/05/1930	Wolverhampton	England	13	120
52	Andrew Paul D'Urso	30/11/1963	Hackney	England	7	119
53	Roger G. Milford	1940	Oldland Common	England	13	117
54	Peter Bankes	18/05/1982	Lancashire	England	7	115
55	Johnathan Edward Martin	18/07/1939	Alton	England	15	113
56	David Coote	11/07/1982	Newark-on-Trent	England	8	112
57	Lawrence Roger Dilkes	16/08/1948	Mossley	England	14	110
58	Robert Jones	04/04/1987	Chester	England	7	110
59	Raymond S. Lewis	30/03/1944	Great Bookham	England	17	110
60	Kenneth Howard Burns	1931	Wordsley	England	14	108
61	Victor G. Callow	1945	Solihull	England	15	107
62	Graham David Scott	10/10/1968	Oxfordshire	England	10	106
63	Patrick Partridge	30/06/1933	Billingham	England	15	106
64	Robert Alan Hart	09/10/1947	Darlington	England	10	104
65	Paul Edward Alcock	27/10/1953	Redhill	England	8	103
66	William John Gow	03/10/1930	Swansea	Wales	14	103
67	Gary Stephen Willard	03/09/1959	Worthing	England	6	100
68	Darren England	23/12/1985	Doncaster	England	7	100
69	Terence J. Holbrook	06/12/1945	Wolverhampton	England	12	100
70	Keith Styles		Barnsley	England	14	99
71	Raymond Tinkler	1929	Boston	England	12	95
72	Neil Midgley	09/09/1942	Salford	England	15	94
73	Michael G. Peck	06/09/1945	Kendal	England	16	93
74	Keren P. J. Barratt	02/1946	Coventry	England	13	93
75	Robert Madley	06/10/1985	Wakefield	England	8	93
76	Philip Don	10/03/1952	Sheffield	England	9	93
77	John Hunting	15/08/1935	Leicester	England	15	91
78	Roger East	12/05/1965	Wiltshire	England	7	91
79	Lester C. Shapter	10/1939	Paignton	England	17	88
80	David William Smith	10/11/1926	Stonehouse	England	10	85
81	Jarred Gavan Gillett	01/11/1986	Gold Coast		5	85
82	Ronald Challis	1932	Tonbridge	England	13	84
83	Kenneth A. Redfern	1943	Whitley Bay	England	15	84
84	Kelvin Morton	01/1946	Great Barton	England	9	84
85	David B. Allison	27/09/1948	Lancaster	England	14	82
86	Harrison New	1927	Bristol	England	11	81
87	Edward David Wallace		Swindon	England	12	81
88	Kenneth William Baker	1939	Rugby	England	15	79
89	Trelford Mills	02/01/1942	Barnsley	England	14	78
90	Rodger B. Gifford	12/04/1948	Ystrad Mynach	Wales	11	77
91	Roger Brian Kirkpatrick	08/08/1931	Leicester	England	13	75
92	Norman Charles Henry Burtenshaw	09/02/1926	Great Yarmouth	England	9	75
93	Barry Knight	07/05/1960	Orpington	England	7	74
94	Bartley John Homewood	03/07/1932	Sunbury-on-Thames	England	13	74
95	John Edmund Cornwall Brooks	1990	Melton Mowbray	England	5	73
96	Vincent James	1927	York	England	10	73
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	70
100	George M. Tyson	22/05/1939	Sunderland	England	12	70
101	Thomas Henry Charles Reynolds	06/03/1934	Swansea	Wales	11	68
102	Gordon Cecil Kew	04/06/1930	South Shields	England	11	67
103	Brian H. Daniels	1936	Rainham	England	14	67
104	Gordon Wilkinson Hill	08/07/1928	Bolton	England	9	67
105	Neville James Ashley	30/09/1938	Nantwich	England	12	66
106	Alan Robinson	26/11/1937	Waterlooville	England	12	66
107	Trevor David Spencer	07/1937	Salisbury	England	14	66
108	Ian James Borrett	1945	Harleston	England	12	66
109	Paul Steven Danson	02/05/1958	Leicester	England	7	65
110	Peter Reeves	12/1932	Leicester	England	9	64
111	Anthony W. Ward	05/12/1941	London	England	11	64
112	David Hutchinson	1940	Burn Bridge	England	12	63
113	James Finney	17/08/1924	St. Helens	England	7	62
114	Peter N. Willis	26/10/1937	Meadowfield	England	13	62
115	Samuel Barrott	1993	Yorkshire	England	3	62
116	Dennis A. Hedges	1941	Oxford	England	11	61
117	Derek Reginald George Nippard	1930	Christchurch	England	10	61
118	Kevin Howley	17/05/1924	Billingham	England	7	60
119	David J. Axcell	1944	Southend	England	11	60
120	Malcolm Vince Sinclair	24/03/1935	Guildford	England	12	59
121	John M. Key	1946	Wickersley	England	12	59
122	Michael Salisbury	1985	Penwortham	England	5	58
123	Leo Callaghan	05/02/1924	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	7	58
124	Alan B. Seville	1941	Birmingham	England	13	58
125	Raymond Toseland		Kettering	England	10	57
126	John C. Deakin	1944	Llantwit Major	Wales	12	56
127	Dennis Turner	1935	Cannock	England	10	55
128	Keith Edwin Walker	21/12/1930	Manchester	England	9	55
129	Anthony Edward Morrissey		Bramhall	England	10	55
130	Iorwerth Price Jones	18/12/1927	Bedlinog	Wales	9	55
131	Howard William King	01/09/1946	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	14	54
132	Donald Shaw	1940	Sandbach	England	11	54
133	Kenneth Walmsley	1939	Thornton	England	13	54
134	Colin N. Seel	1939	Carlisle	England	13	54
135	Darryl V. Reeves	1940	Denham Green	England	13	54
136	Arthur Wynne Smith Jones	25/04/1930	Aughton	England	13	53
137	Colin Downey	1939	Hounslow	England	10	53
138	Thomas William Bramall	1990	Sheffield	England	4	52
139	Peter R. Walters	1930	Bridgwater	England	11	52
140	Ronald G. Groves	1945	Weston super Mare	England	9	52
141	Maurice Alonzo Robinson Fussey	13/11/1924	Retford	England	8	52
142	Robert J. Harris	19/08/1956	Oxford	England	3	51
143	Harold Prior Hackney	14/09/1929	Barnsley	England	10	51
144	Robert F. Nixon	1944	West Kirby	England	13	51
145	Alfred N. Buksh	1945	London	England	10	50
146	David Richardson	28/05/1937	Great Harwood	England	11	50
147	Tim Robinson	1984	West Sussex	England	5	49
148	Thomas G. Bune		Plaistow	England	10	49
149	Michael Lowe		Sheffield	England	9	49
150	Tony Harrington	1990	Hartlepool	England	5	49
151	Roy Capey		Madeley Heath	England	9	49
152	Thomas Walter Dawes	04/12/1926	Nelson	England	10	49
153	Michael Taylor		Deal	England	10	49
154	John H. Yates	04/07/1930	Redditch	England	11	48
155	Dennis Joseph Lyden	19/12/1926	Birmingham	England	8	47
156	Harold Williams		Sheffield	England	9	46
157	Walter Barry Johnson		Kendal	England	9	46
158	Daniel Stephen Charles Vickers	1941	Redbridge	England	10	45
159	Matthew David Messias	07/05/1964	Hatfield	England	5	45
160	Peter Baldwin	1930	Thornton-in-Cleveland	England	10	44
161	John D. Hough	11/1937	Macclesfield	England	11	44
162	David Scott	1942	Burnley	England	10	44
163	Alfred William Grey	02/02/1935	Great Yarmouth	England	10	44
164	Michael L. James	1945	Horsham	England	11	43
165	Dennis A. Corbett	1925	Wolverhampton	England	8	42
166	Ronald Bridges	10/11/1940	Deeside	Wales	11	42
167	Eric Read		Bristol	England	10	41
168	Derek Walter Lloyd	1935	Fernhill Heath	England	8	40
169	Arnold Challinor		Maltby	England	7	40
170	Kevin McNally	05/05/1941	Ellesmere Port	England	8	39
171	John Anthony Moules	1946	Ingatestone	England	11	39
172	Peter Foakes	11/09/1946	Clacton on Sea	England	7	39
173	Eric Thomas Jennings	22/01/1923	Worcester	England	6	38
174	Leslie Frederick George Burden	06/1937	Weymouth	England	9	38
175	Vernon J. Batty	1930	Helsby	England	9	38
176	Anthony Richard Glasson	1935	Salisbury	England	8	37
177	Peter A. Tyldesley	1943	Bredbury	England	12	37
178	Kenneth Salmon		Barnet	England	8	37
179	Jim Ashworth	1944	Rutland	England	8	37
180	Gilbert James Napthine	01/10/1938	Laughborough	England	9	36
181	Donald J. Biddle		Bristol	England	8	36
182	Clive Richard Wilkes	1954	Corse	England	4	35
183	Claude Lambert Newsome		Telford	England	8	35
184	John E. Thacker		Scarborough	England	9	34
185	Howard Taylor	1940	Oadby	England	9	34
186	Jeffrey E. Bray	1939	Hinckley	England	9	33
187	Mark P. T. Scott	1943	West Bridgford	England	9	33
188	John Walter Lloyd	15/02/1948	Wrexham	Wales	9	33
189	George McCabe	13/03/1922	Sheffield	England	5	33
190	William G. Handley		Cannock	England	5	32
191	Frederick M. Nicholson		Manchester	England	8	32
192	Alan Saunders	1937	Newcastle	England	8	32
193	Brian Martin		Keyworth	England	6	31
194	John Lovatt	1939	Wistaston	England	8	31
195	Alex Hamil	1937	Ettingshall Park	England	8	31
196	Roy Harper		Sheffield	England	5	31
197	George Flint		Kirkby-in-Ashfield	England	7	31
198	Stephen Bates		Bristol	England	6	30
199	David T. Phillips	1944	Barnsley	England	7	30
200	Ron C. Crabb	1931	Exeter	England	8	30
201	Cliff Maskell		Cambridge	England	6	29
202	Derek Richardson		Lincoln	England	5	28
203	Ralph B. Lee		Cheadle	England	5	28
204	Thomas Fitzharris	1945	Ladybridge	England	11	27
205	George Hartley		Wakefield	England	5	27
206	Kenneth Stokes	1922	Newark	England	3	27
207	David Letts		Basingstoke	England	6	27
208	Robert Norman Perkin		Stafford	England	7	27
209	Ffrangcon Roberts	1941	Prestatyn	Wales	9	27
210	Clive Bradley White	02/05/1940	London	England	7	27
211	Terence Leonard Morris	1940	Rotherham	England	6	27
212	Kevin J. Breen	1948	Maghull	England	7	27
213	Stephen J. Tanner	21/10/1970	Briston	England	3	26
214	Kenneth Dagnall	30/01/1921	Bolton	England	4	26
215	David Laing		Penwortham	England	8	26
216	Norman H. Glover	1943	Adlington	England	9	26
217	Lancelot Maurice Robinson	1941	Sutton Coldfield	England	8	26
218	Derek Owen		Bebington	England	6	25
219	Edward Jolly		Manchester	England	5	25
220	Derek Civil	1934	Great Barr	England	8	25
221	Robert L. Hamer	1945	Brislington	England	7	24
222	Jim Bent	1931	Hemel Hempstead	England	5	24
223	Leslie J. Hamer		Horwich	England	4	24
224	Gwyn Pierce Owen	18/04/1934	Anglesey	England	5	23
225	Robert Allan Banks	01/1942	Manchester	England	7	23
226	Malcolm J. Heath	1943	Stoke-on-Trent	England	8	23
227	Peter Richardson		Lincolnshire	England	6	23
228	John Richard Osborne	04/08/1926	Ipswich	England	6	23
229	Darren Bond	1978	Wigan	England	3	23
230	Frank Cowen		Manchester	England	5	23
231	Leslie Hayes		Doncaster	England	4	23
232	James E. Carr	1921	Sheffield	England	4	23
233	Arthur L. Hart		Borough Green	England	4	23
234	Arthur Edward Dimond	01/11/1925	Harlow	England	6	23
235	Michael Dimblebee	1941	Chells	England	7	22
236	Charles Henry Nicholls	22/08/1925	Plymouth	England	5	22
237	Sydney J. Kayley		Preston	England	8	22
238	Terry Farley	1933	Newton Aycliffe	England	6	22
239	Raymond L. Johnson	1930	Lowestoft	England	6	22
240	William S. Castle		Sedgley	England	6	22
241	Raymond Chadwick	18/03/1935	Darwen	England	6	21
242	Harold Richards		Oldham	England	4	21
243	John David Williams		Wrexham	Wales	4	21
244	Paul W. Vanes	1947	Warney	England	7	21
245	Anthony Philip Oliver	06/03/1931	Leigh-on-Sea	England	5	21
246	Edward Kevin Wolstenholme	1954	Preston	England	2	20
247	Ivan Thomas Smith	1929	Accrington	England	5	19
248	George Nolan		Hazel Grove	England	5	19
249	Horace Reginald Robinson		Woodbridge	England	5	19
250	Michael Kerkhof		Bicester	England	6	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