The match official appointments for matchday 3 have been announced, check them out below.

Written by Nathan Mattick

Tuesday 19th October

Group A

Club Brugge v Manchester City FC

Referee: István Kovács (ROU)

Assistant Referees: Vasile Florin Marinescu and Mihai Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Marian Alexandru Barbu (ROU)
Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Fedayi San (SUI)

Paris Saint-Germain v RB Leipzig

Referee: Marco Guida (ITA)

Assistant Referees: Ciro Carbone and Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Fabio Maresca (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Attwell (ENG)

Group B

FC Porto v AC Milan

Referee: Felix Brych (GER)

Assistant Referees: Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Daniel Schlager (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Fritz (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG)

Club Atlético de Madrid v Liverpool FC

Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER)

Assistant Referees: Rafael Foltyn and Lasse Koslowski (GER)
Fourth Official: Sven Jablonski (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA)

Group C

Beşiktaş JK v Sporting Clube de Portugal

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (SVN)

Assistant Referees: Tomaž Klančnik and Andraž Kovačič (SVN)

Fourth Official: Rade Obrenović (SVN)

Video Assistant Referee: Matej Jug (SVN)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jure Praprotnik (SVN)

AFC Ajax v Borussia Dortmund

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (ESP)

Assistant Referees: Iñigo Prieto López de Ceraín and Ángel Nevado Rodríguez (ESP)
Fourth Official: José Luis Munuera Montero (ESP)
Video Assistant Referee: Alejandro José Hernández Hernández (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Ricardo De Burgos Bengoechea (ESP)

FC Internazionale Milano v FC Sheriff Tiraspol

Referee: Danny Makkelie (NED)

Assistant Referees: Hessel Steegstra and Jan de Vries (NED)
Fourth Official: Joey Kooij (NED)
Video Assistant Referee: Jochem Kamphuis (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED)

Group D

FC Shakhtar Donetsk v Real Madrid CF

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (SRB)
Assistant Referees: Uroš Stojković and Milan Mihajlović (SRB)

Fourth Official: Novak Simović (SRB)
Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Harm Osmers (GER)

Wednesday 20th October

Group E

FC Barcelona v FC Dynamo Kyiv

Referee: Clément Turpin (FRA)

Assistant Referees: Nicolas Danos and Cyril Gringore (FRA)
Fourth Official: Jérémie Pignard (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)

SL Benfica v FC Bayern München

Referee: Ovidiu Hategan (ROU)

Assistant Referees: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Sebastian Gheorghe (ROU)
Fourth Official: Marcel Birsan (ROU)
Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jochem Kamphuis (NED)

Group F

BSC Young Boys v Villarreal CF

Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS)

Assistant Referees: Igor Demeshko and Maksim Gavirlin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR)
Video Assistant Referee: Vitaliy Meshkov (RUS)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG)

Manchester United v Atalanta BC

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)

Assistant Referees: Pawel Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
Fourth Official: Tomasz Musial (POL)
Video Assistant Referee: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (POL)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Marco Fritz (GER)

Group G

FC Salzburg v VfL Wolfsburg

Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)

Assistant Referees: Alessandro Giallatini and Fabiano Preti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Daniele Doveri (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA)

LOSC Lille v Sevilla FC

Referee: Michael Oliver (ENG)

Assistant Referees: Stuart Burt and Simon Bennett (ENG)
Fourth Official: David Coote (ENG)
Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Paul Tierney (ENG)

Group H

Football Club Zenit v Juventus

Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)

Assistant Referees: Stéphane De Almeida and Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Fedayi San (SUI)

Chelsea FC v Malmö FF

Referee: François Letexier (FRA)

Assistant Referees: Cyril Mugnier and Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Thomas Leonard (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Alejandro José Hernández Hernández (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Benoît Millot (FRA)

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