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Urs Meier

1959 - Today

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Urs Meier (born January 22, 1959) is a retired Swiss football referee. He officiated at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, taking charge of the semi-final between South Korea and Germany in 2002. He also refereed the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final that year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urs Meier has received more than 92,914 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Urs Meier is the 39th most popular referee (down from 33rd in 2019), the 589th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Referee.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Urs Meier ranks 39 out of 107. Before him are Milorad Mažić, Daniele Orsato, Ľuboš Micheľ, Wolfgang Stark, Yuichi Nishimura, and Olegário Benquerença. After him are Óscar Ruiz, Carlos Velasco Carballo, Damir Skomina, Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, Manuel Mejuto González, and Luis Medina Cantalejo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Urs Meier ranks 395. Before him are Fyodor Cherenkov, Trond Sollied, Anil Ambani, Juan Barbas, Andy McNab, and Peter Shor. After him are Peter Doig, Paul Kaba Thieba, John Lauridsen, Dave Schultz, Omar Hakim, and Nick Griffin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Urs Meier ranks 589 out of 876. Before him are Carl Meissner (1800), Uri Rosenthal (1945), Philippe Senderos (1985), Denis Zakaria (1996), Jean-Denis Délétraz (1963), and Tranquillo Barnetta (1985). After him are Mauro Gianetti (1964), Paul Niggli (1888), Eren Derdiyok (1988), Edmund Bruggmann (1943), Mario Gavranović (1989), and Claudio Sulser (1955).

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Among REFEREES In Switzerland

Among referees born in Switzerland, Urs Meier ranks 3. Before him are Gottfried Dienst (1919) and Massimo Busacca (1969).

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