NYON (SWITZERLAND) (ITALPRESS) – UEFA has designated Romanian referee Istvan Kovacs to referee the Champions League final between Paris Saint Germain and Inter on May 31 in Munich. His compatriots Mihai Marica and Ferencz Tunyogi will be assistant referees, Portuguese Joao Pedro Silva Pinheiro will be the fourth official, and another Portuguese, Bruno Miguel Alves Jesus, will be the reserve. Dutch referees Dennis Johan Higler and Paulus Van Boekel and Romanian Catalin Sorin Popa will be at Var.
Kovacs, 40 years old and an international since 2010, is in his third European final: in the past he refereed the 2022 Conference final won by Roma over Feyenoord in Tirana and the 2024 Europa League final in Dublin, in which Atalanta beat Bayer Leverkusen.
German Felix Zwayer will referee the 2025 UEFA Europa League final between Tottenham and Manchester United, which will be played at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain, on May 21.
The UEFA Referees Committee has confirmed that Irfan Peljto of Bosnia and Herzegovina will referee the 2025 UEFA Conference League final between Chelsea and Betis in Wrocław, Poland, on May 28.
Furthermore, the UEFA Referees Committee has also announced that Sandro Schärer of Switzerland will referee the 2024-25 UEFA Nations League final in Munich, Germany, on June 08.
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