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Premier League Match Official Appointments Matchweek 6

Tuesday 28th September

Group A

Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester City 

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (ESP)
Assistant Referees: Pau Cebrián Devis and Roberto Alonso Fernández (ESP)
Fourth Official: Santiago Jaime Latre (ESP)
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)

RB Leipzig v Club Brugge 

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (SVN)
Assistant Referees: Tomaž Klančnik and Andraž Kovačič (SVN)
Fourth Official: Nejc Kajtazović (SVN)
Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Maurizio Mariani (ITA) 

Group B

FC Porto v Liverpool FC

Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS)
Assistant Referees: Igor Demeshko and Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Vladimir Moskalev (RUS)
Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Vitaliy Meshkov (RUS)

AC Milan v Club Atlético de Madrid 

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (TUR)
Assistant Referees: Bahattin Duran and Tarik Ongun (TUR)
Fourth Official: Arda Kardeşler (TUR)
Video Assistant Referee: Abdulkadir Bitigen (TUR)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Mete Klkavan (TUR) 

Group C

AFC Ajax v Beşiktaş JK 

Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA)
Assistant Referees: Hicham Zakrani and Aurélien Berthomieu (FRA)
Fourth Official: Jérémie Pignard (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA) 

Borussia Dortmund v Sporting Clube de Portugal 

Referee: Srdjan Jovanović (SRB)
Assistant Referees: Uroš Stojković and Milan Mihajlović (SRB)
Fourth Official: Novak Simović (SRB)
Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Kevin Blom (NED) 

Group D 

FC Shakhtar Donetsk v FC Internazionale Milano 

Referee: István Kovács (ROU)
Assistant Referees: Vasile Florin Marinescu and Mihai Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Andrei Florin Chivulete (ROU)
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Fritz (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hațegan (ROU)

Real Madrid CF v FC Sheriff Tiraspol 

Referee: Lawrence Visser (BEL)
Assistant Referees: Rien Vanyzere and Thibaud Nijssen (BEL)
Fourth Official: Bram Van Driessche (BEL)
Video Assistant Referee: Clément Turpin (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Amaury Delerue (FRA) 

Wednesday 29th September 

Group E 

FC Bayern München v FC Dynamo Kyiv 

Referee: Marco Guida (ITA)
Assistant Referees: Filippo Meli and Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Fabio Maresca (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Maurizio Mariani (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA) 

SL Benfica v FC Barcelona 

Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referees: Alessandro Giallatini and Ciro Carbone (ITA)
Fourth Official: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG) 

Group F

Atalanta BC v BSC Young Boys 

Referee: Felix Brych (GER)
Assistant Referees: Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Daniel Schlager (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Sascha Stegemann (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Deniz Aytekin (GER) 

Manchester United v Villarreal CF 

Referee: Felix Zwayer (GER) 
Assistant Referees: Rafael Foltyn and Marco Achmüller (GER)
Fourth Official: Sven Jablonski (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert (GER) 

Group G

VfL Wolfsburg v Sevilla FC 

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL)
Assistant Referees: Martin Margaritov and Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Ivaylo Stoyanov (BUL)
Video Assistant Referee: Kevin Blom (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA) 

FC Salzburg v LOSC Lille 

Referee: Halil Umut Meler (TUR)
Assistant Referees: Mustafa Emre Eyisoy and Cevdet Komurcuoglu (TUR)
Fourth Official: Alper Ulusoy (TUR)
Video Assistant Referee: Mete Kalkavan (TUR)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Harm Osmers (GER) 

Group H

Football Club Zenit v Malmö FF 

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (GRE)
Assistant Referees: Polychronis Kostaras and Lazaros Dimitriadis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Ioannis Papadopoulos (GRE)
Video Assistant Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (ESP)

Juventus v Chelsea FC

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP)
Assistant Referees: Diego Barbero Sevilla and Ángel Nevado Rodríguez (ESP)
Fourth Official: José Luis Munuera Montero (ESP)
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED)

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