The Most Famous
REFEREES from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Referees, 2 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 15th most number of Referees behind United States and Chile.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Referees of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sándor Puhl (1955 - 2021)
With an HPI of 52.41, Sándor Puhl is the most famous Hungarian Referee. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Sándor Puhl (14 July 1955 – 20 May 2021) was a Hungarian football referee, mostly known for supervising four matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, including the final between Brazil and Italy. He also refereed UEFA Champions League matches, including the 1997 UEFA Champions League Final between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus. Dortmund ended up being 3–1 winners. He was elected as IFFHS' World's Best Referee of the Year four times in a row between 1994 and 1997. After retiring as a referee, he was Deputy Chairman of the Hungarian Football Association from 2000 to 2006. He also worked as a co-commentator for a Hungarian sports TV channel. Puhl spoke Hungarian, German, Italian and English. Puhl died on 20 May 2021, at the age of 65, from post-COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary.
2. Viktor Kassai (1975 - )
With an HPI of 45.24, Viktor Kassai is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Referee. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages.
Viktor Kassai (Kassai Viktor, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkɒʃːɒi ˈviktor]; born 10 September 1975) is a Hungarian football official and a former referee who is the current head of refereeing department of the Bulgarian Football Union. He participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and refereed the 2011 UEFA Champions League Final. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2003. He retired as a referee on 30 December 2019.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as referees born between 1955 and 1975. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living referees include Viktor Kassai. The most famous deceased referees include Sándor Puhl.
