Thorsten Kinhöfer

Thorsten Kinhöfer (* June 27, 1968 in Wanne- Eickel ) is a German football referee.

Life

Kinhöfer lives in Herne and works as Head of Controlling at Stadtwerke Herne.

Football

Kinhöfer began playing football as a teenager as the goalkeeper in SV Holsterhausen and the DSC Wanne -Eickel. In his youth he had to feel through an elbow fracture and clay courts damaged knee restrictions. Early age of 16 he made his referee exam and started in F- and E - youth leagues. After his transition as a player from the A- youth in the men's area, he decided to devote himself entirely to the selection of referees.

Kinhöfer since 1994 DFB referee for the SC Constantin Herne. Since 1997 he heads the Second and Games since 2001 Games of the First Bundesliga. His first assignment was in the match TSV 1860 Munich vs VfL Wolfsburg on 23 September 2001. In 2003, he led games in the Korean K- League. In the following years he also ran games in Saudi Arabia Saudi Professional League and Qatar in the Qatari Stars League.

Since January 2006 Thorsten Kinhöfer is FIFA referee. On 1 March 2006, he headed to the friendly match between the U.S. and Poland its first international match.

In September 2013 it was announced that Bastian Dankert and Tobias Stieler be reported in 2014 as a referee for FIFA List. The two replace Florian Meyer and Kinhöfer who have to bow to age.

From the DFB Kinhöfer was recognized for leading the finals of the DFB - Cup 2010 in Berlin.

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia DSC Wanne-Eickel Qatar Stars League 2009–10 DFB-Pokal Felix Brych Peter Gagelmann Knut Kircher Markus Schmidt (referee) Peter Sippel Wolfgang Stark Michael Weiner (referee) Tobias Welz Felix Zwayer 1935 Tschammerpokal 1936 Tschammerpokal 1937 Tschammerpokal 1938 Tschammerpokal 1939 Tschammerpokal 1940 Tschammerpokal 1941 Tschammerpokal 1942 Tschammerpokal 1943 Tschammerpokal 1952–53 DFB-Pokal 1953–54 DFB-Pokal 1954–55 DFB-Pokal 1955–56 DFB-Pokal 1956–57 DFB-Pokal 1957–58 DFB-Pokal 1958–59 DFB-Pokal 1959–60 DFB-Pokal 1960–61 DFB-Pokal 1961–62 DFB-Pokal 1962–63 DFB-Pokal 1963–64 DFB-Pokal 1964–65 DFB-Pokal 1965–66 DFB-Pokal 1966–67 DFB-Pokal 1967–68 DFB-Pokal 1968–69 DFB-Pokal 1969–70 DFB-Pokal 1970–71 DFB-Pokal 1971–72 DFB-Pokal Heinz Aldinger 1972–73 DFB-Pokal Kurt Tschenscher 1973–74 DFB-Pokal 1974–75 DFB-Pokal 1975–76 DFB-Pokal Walter Eschweiler 1976–77 DFB-Pokal 1978–79 DFB-Pokal 1979–80 DFB-Pokal 1980–81 DFB-Pokal 1981–82 DFB-Pokal Gerd Hennig 1982–83 DFB-Pokal 1983–84 DFB-Pokal Volker Roth 1984–85 DFB-Pokal 1985–86 DFB-Pokal Dieter Pauly 1986–87 DFB-Pokal 1988–89 DFB-Pokal Karl-Heinz Tritschler 1989–90 DFB-Pokal 1990–91 DFB-Pokal Aron Schmidhuber 1991–92 DFB-Pokal Bernd Heynemann 1992–93 DFB-Pokal Markus Merk 1993–94 DFB-Pokal 1994–95 DFB-Pokal Hellmut Krug 1996–97 DFB-Pokal 1997–98 DFB-Pokal 1998–99 DFB-Pokal 1999–2000 DFB-Pokal 2000–01 DFB-Pokal 2001–02 DFB-Pokal 2002–03 DFB-Pokal 2003–04 DFB-Pokal Herbert Fandel 2004–05 DFB-Pokal 2005–06 DFB-Pokal 2006–07 DFB-Pokal 2007–08 DFB-Pokal 2008–09 DFB-Pokal 2010–11 DFB-Pokal 2011–12 DFB-Pokal 2012–13 DFB-Pokal
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