The Most Famous
REFEREES from Turkey
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Referees, 1 of which were born in Turkey. This makes Turkey the birth place of the 30th most number of Referees behind Saudi Arabia and Greece.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Referees of all time. This list of famous Turkish Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cüneyt Çakır (1976 - )
With an HPI of 50.90, Cüneyt Çakır is the most famous Turkish Referee. His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.
Cüneyt Çakır (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒynejt ˈt͡ʃakɯɾ], born 23 November 1976) is a Turkish former football referee. He is best known for refereeing the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final between Juventus and Barcelona. He was FIFA listed since 2006 and a member of the UEFA Elite since 2010 until his retirement. He is currently serving as head of the Refereeing Department of the Georgian Football Federation.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as referees born between 1976 and 1976. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living referees include Cüneyt Çakır.
