The Most Famous

REFEREES from Bahrain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bahraini Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 147 Referees, 1 of which were born in Bahrain. This makes Bahrain the birth place of the 39th most number of Referees behind Malaysia, and Poland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bahraini Referees of all time. This list of famous Bahraini Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Nawaf Shukralla (b. 1976)

With an HPI of 41.76, Nawaf Shukralla is the most famous Bahraini Referee.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Nawaf Abdullah Ghayyath Shukrallah (Arabic: نواف شكر الله; born 13 October 1976) is a Bahraini football referee who has been a full international referee for FIFA. In 2011, FIFA called him on duty at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He has also officiated at other tournaments, including the AFC Champions League, the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup, and 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In March 2013, FIFA named Shukrallah to its list of 52 candidate referees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Nawaf has officiated in the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bahraini referees born between 1976 and 1976. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bahraini referees include Nawaf Shukralla.

Living Bahraini Referees

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