Kateryna Monzul

Monzul is 167 cm (5 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) tall, speaks fluent English, and has a degree in architecture and town planning from Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy.[1] She took charge of her first international match in September 2005, Finland versus Poland in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualififiers.[2] She first refereed in a final tournament at UEFA Women's Euro 2009, while at the 2011 World Cup she served as a fourth official.

The 2013 UEFA Women's Euro's Norway versus Denmark semifinal marked her first performance in a major nations tournament's final stages. The following year she refereed the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. In 2014, she was voted second in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) World's Best Woman Referee poll behind Bibiana Steinhaus.[3]

Monzul refereed the opening match of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, marking her debut in the competition as main referee, in which she awarded a controversial injury time penalty kick to host nation Canada who scored to beat China 1–0.[4] She also refereed the final on 5 July 2015 between the United States and Japan. In 2015, she was named as the IFFHS World’s Best Woman Referee.[5]

On 3 April 2016, Monzul started working in the Ukrainian Premier League, in a match between Chornomorets Odesa and Volyn Lutsk. In doing so, she became the first female referee in the elite men's Ukrainian football division.[6]

In June 2017, Monzul was appointed to be an official at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 in the Netherlands.[7]

On December 3, 2018, it was announced that Monzul had been appointed to be a referee for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.[8] After the conclusion of the round of 16, FIFA announced that Monzul was selected as one of 11 referees who would be assigned to matches during the final 8 matches of the tournament.[9]

In November 2020, she officiated the UEFA Nations League match between San Marino and Gibraltar as part of the first all-female refereeing team to take charge of a senior men's international.[10]

• Teams in bold progressed past the stage

Women's national teams

Competition	Qualifiers	Group stage	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
2007 FIFA World Cup	Finland 3–1 Poland Belarus 1–2 Iceland
2009 UEFA Euro	Serbia 0–8 France Austria 0–4 Norway Italy 3–0 Hungary	Germany 5–1 France Sweden 1–1 England 0
2011 FIFA World Cup	Israel 1–2 Switzerland Finland 4–1 Portugal France 0–0 Italy Italy 1–0 Switzerland
2013 UEFA Euro	Belgium 0–1 Norway Spain 2–2 Germany Czech Republic 0–2 Denmark Bosnia-Herzegovina 0–2 Poland	Spain 3–2 England Denmark 1–1 Finland 0 0			Norway 1–1 Denmark (4–2 p aet) 0 0 0
2015 FIFA World Cup	Sweden 2–0 Poland Spain 2–0 Italy Netherlands 1–1 Belgium Switzerland 3–0 Iceland Austria 3–1 Finland Germany 2–0 Republic of Ireland Scotland 1–2 Netherlands	Canada 1–0 China PR United States 1–0 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0		Japan 1–0 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0		United States 5–2 Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017 UEFA Euro	Sweden 1–0 Denmark Romania 1–1 Portugal (aet) 0	Denmark 1–0 Belgium Germany 2–1 Italy England 2–1 Portugal			Denmark 0–0 Austria (3–0 p aet) 0 0
2019 FIFA World Cup	Republic of Ireland 0–2 Norway Germany 4–0 Czech Republic Spain 4–0 Austria Netherlands 2–0 Denmark	Germany 1–0 Spain Cameroon 2–1 New Zealand 0 0		France 1–2 United States 0 0 0

• Best arbiter of Ukrainian Premier League: 2019-20[11]

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Preceded by Teodora Albon	2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final Kateryna Monzul	Succeeded by Esther Staubli
Preceded by Bibiana Steinhaus	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final Kateryna Monzul	Succeeded by Stéphanie Frappart