Martin Hansson

Martin Hansson ( born April 6, 1971) is a Swedish football referee.

Career

Hansson began his career as a referee 15 - year-old. Since 1992 he has served as an arbitrator for Svenska Fotbollförbundet and came four years later for the first time in the second division are used. In parallel, he whistled first international games, especially in the youth field. In 1999 he was appointed to the referee pool for the Allsvenskan, two years later he was appointed to the FIFA Referees. In 2001, Hansson at the U-16 European Championship in England for the first time in a national UEFA tournament used and managed with the match between Sheriff Tiraspol and RSC Anderlecht his first game in the qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Two years later, he headed for the U-17 World Cup in Finland its first game in the finals of a FIFA competition.

His next career move took Hansson in the same year, when he came in March 2003 to his senior international debut in the match Estonia and Canada. After he had graduated previously couple of matches in the UEFA Cup, moved Hansson 2005 as the second referee Swedish alongside Peter Fröjdfeldt as a game manager for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. A year later, he was considered for the final tournament of the U-21 European Championship in Portugal in 2006. During the tournament, the Swede whistled three games, including the final between the Netherlands and Ukrainian youth selection.

At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Canada Hansson set a record of referee assignments during such a tournament with six games under his direction. Not least because of its international missions awarded him the Swedish Football Association in 2007 as Sweden's referee of the year. In the following years he whistled regular games at national and international level. Participation in the 2008 European Championship was denied him, as with Fröjdfeldt a compatriot was taken into account.

In 2009, Hansson took part in the Confederations Cup and led the final of the competition between winners Brazil and the U.S. selection. As a result, he was held in October 2009 as one of 38 referees into account in the preliminary list of FIFA for the World Cup 2010. As on the last day of the Allsvenskan season 2009, the two direct rivals AIK and IFK Gothenburg clashed, Hansson was the lead of the game in charge.

Hansson conducted between autumn 2008 and autumn 2009, several important international games in which he was accused of the outcome of the game affected by wrong decisions. Thus, the referees missed the decisive qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 2010 between France and Ireland on 18 November 2009 a handball by Thierry Henry, and Hansson left the resulting equalizer of the French to 1:1 apply.

Hansson lives in the Southeast Swedish Holmsjö and is a professional firefighter. In addition to his native Swedish Hansson speaks also English and German.