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Gottfried Dienst

1919 - 1998

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Gottfried Dienst (Basel, 9 September 1919 – Bern, 1 June 1998) was a Swiss association football referee. He was mostly known as the referee of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final. Dienst is one of only four men to have twice refereed a European Cup final, which he did in 1961 and 1965, and one of only two (the other being Italian referee Sergio Gonella) to have refereed both the European Championship and World Cup finals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Dienst has received more than 109,574 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried Dienst is the 24th most popular referee (down from 16th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 419th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Gottfried Dienst ranks 24 out of 147. Before her are Viktor Kassai, Maurice Guigue, Sergio Gonella, Szymon Marciniak, Ravshan Irmatov, and Byron Moreno. After her are Massimo Busacca, Tom Henning Øvrebø, Daniele Orsato, Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Pedro Proença, and Nikolay Latyshev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gottfried Dienst ranks 234. Before her are Åke Seyffarth, Manna Dey, Antonio Pietrangeli, Arnold Meri, Dries van der Lof, and Jon Pertwee. After her are William Stokoe, Augusts Voss, Kateryna Yushchenko, Helen Walton, Roberto Bonomi, and Eugenia Charles. Among people deceased in 1998, Gottfried Dienst ranks 208. Before her are Lounès Matoub, Clara Calamai, Åke Seyffarth, André Bonin, Mikio Oda, and Władysław Komar. After her are Lev Rokhlin, Norah Borges, Luis Cruz, Michael Tippett, Alois Estermann, and Bobo Brazil.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Dienst ranks 483 out of 1,015. Before her are Johann Amman (1707), Urs Fischer (1966), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Vreni Schneider (1964), Alex Zülle (1968), and Kaspar Villiger (1941). After her are Karl Bodmer (1809), Massimo Busacca (1969), Anton Allemann (1936), Heinrich Schmid (1921), Albert Eschenmoser (1925), and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802).

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Among REFEREES In Switzerland

Among referees born in Switzerland, Gottfried Dienst ranks 1. After her are Massimo Busacca (1969), and Urs Meier (1959).

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