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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 91,984 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Urs Meier is the 44th most popular referee (down from 39th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 586th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 92k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Urs Meiers by language

Over the past year Urs Meier has had the most page views in the with 16,196 views, followed by English (9,794), and Romanian (1,856). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (139.55%), Romanian (29.43%), and Egyptian Arabic (14.81%)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Urs Meier ranks 44 out of 147. Before him are Pierluigi Pairetto, Stéphanie Frappart, Kim Milton Nielsen, Olegário Benquerença, Alireza Faghani, and Toru Kamikawa. After him are Wolfgang Stark, Manuel Mejuto González, Graham Poll, Clément Turpin, Luis Medina Cantalejo, and Bibiana Steinhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Urs Meier ranks 370. Before him are Satoshi Miyauchi, Alexandre Guimarães, Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, John Patitucci, and Naoji Ito. After him are Vigdis Hjorth, Päivi Räsänen, Sylvia Hanika, Kathy Hilton, Daniel Goldhagen, and Dave Schultz.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Urs Meier ranks 604 out of 1,015. Before him are Georges Stuber (1925), Oswald Zappelli (1913), Klaus Tschütscher (1967), George Gruntz (1932), Mauro Gianetti (1964), and Hans Gerschwiler (1920). After him are Urs Bühler (1971), Heini Walter (1927), Georges Bregy (1958), Emmanuel Pahud (1970), Georges Trombert (1874), and Manuel Akanji (1995).

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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).

Swiss born Referees

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