The Most Famous

REFEREES from Croatia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 147 Referees, 1 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 54th most number of Referees behind Czechia, and Ethiopia.

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

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1. Ivan Bebek (b. 1977)

With an HPI of 34.60, Ivan Bebek is the most famous Croatian Referee.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Ivan Bebek (born 30 May 1977) is a Croatian football referee. Bebek is the only Croatian referee to have supervised three UEFA Champions League group stage matches (Lazio v. Werder Bremen during the 2007–08 season, Bordeaux v. CFR Cluj in the 2008–09 season and Copenhagen v. Juventus during the 2013–14 season). He also refereed at the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League knockout stage (Paris Saint-Germain v. Bayer Leverkusen). He has refereed at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He was also a fourth official at UEFA Euro 2008. He refereed at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and invited to Indian League. He was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Croatian referees born between 1977 and 1977. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Croatian referees include Ivan Bebek.

Living Croatian Referees

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