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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 the Italian Sergio Gonella) to have refereed both the European Championship and the World Cup finals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Dienst has received more than 99,821 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gottfried Dienst is the 16th most popular referee (up from 2,007th in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 383rd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Gottfried Dienst ranks 16 out of 107. Before her are Horacio Elizondo, Howard Webb, Nicolae Rainea, Nicola Rizzoli, Maurice Guigue, and Rudi Glöckner. After her are Byron Moreno, Tom Henning Øvrebø, Massimo Busacca, Roberto Rosetti, Sergio Gonella, and Gamal Al-Ghandour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gottfried Dienst ranks 216. Before her are Richard Todd, Ladislav Mňačko, Maurice Boitel, Antonio Pietrangeli, Nehemiah Persoff, and Helen Walton. After her are Kim Ki-young, Nina Dumbadze, Margot Hielscher, Gayatri Devi, Milan Horvat, and Axel von dem Bussche. Among people deceased in 1998, Gottfried Dienst ranks 187. Before her are Mary Millar, Johannes Kotkas, Rob Pilatus, Ted Fujita, William Gaddis, and Bobo Brazil. After her are Kim Ki-young, Héctor Vilches, Consalvo Sanesi, Charles Lang, Kea Bouman, and Galina Starovoytova.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Dienst ranks 421 out of 876. Before her are Fritz Schär (1926), Corina Casanova (1956), Pierre Aubert (1927), Thomas Bickel (1963), Conrad Grebel (1498), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724). After her are Arthur Cohn (1927), Justus Dahinden (1925), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Charles Champaud (1865), Johann David Wyss (1743), and Walter Wild (1872).

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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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