Volker Roth

Volker Roth ( born February 1, 1942 in Chemnitz ) is a former German football referee. From 1995 to 21 May 2010, he was chairman of the DFB referee committee. In addition, Roth is a member of the UEFA Referees Committee.

Life

Volker Roth launched his first Bundesliga game on May 6, 1972 in Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart during the game against 1 FC Cologne. From the season 1974/75 he was employed until 1986 regularly in the West German football House of Lords. International were his highlights the European Football Championship 1984 in France and the football World Cup in Mexico in 1986, which meant the end of his active career referee. At the European Championships in 1984 he had the honor of was to lead the opening match between hosts France and Denmark in Paris. In this game, he put the French defender Manuel Amoros from the square, which earned him criticism in France.

In the 1986 World Cup, he led the first group match between England and Portugal, then the second-round match between Brazil and Poland.

His last Bundesliga game caused a lot of conversation. It was on 22 April 1986 at the Weser Stadium in Bremen between Werder Bremen and FC Bayern Munich. The Bremen had a victory is enough with two games left in the season to get the championship for the first time since 1965 to the Weser. With the score at 0-0 Volker Roth was in the 90th minute a controversial hand Penalty for Werder Bremen. The Bremer Michael Kutzop, who was considered the safest penalty taker in the league, scored the penalty against the post. Werder Bremen missed the last round and the last chance to be champion, the title in 1986 secured the Bavaria.

After ending his playing career Volker Roth remained as a referee instructor the DFB. Until 21 May 2010, he was Chairman of the DFB referee committee which from 2005 had to deal, among other things with the betting scandal involving referee Robert Hoyzer Berlin.

UEFA Europa League 2010: Rizzoli | 2011: Velasco Carballo | 2012: Stark | 2013: Kuipers

Football referee ( Germany )
German
Football functionary ( Germany )
FIFA Referees
Born in 1942
Man

1971–72 UEFA Cup 1972–73 UEFA Cup Erich Linemayr 1973–74 UEFA Cup 1974–75 UEFA Cup 1975–76 UEFA Cup 1976–77 UEFA Cup 1977–78 UEFA Cup Nicolae Rainea 1978–79 UEFA Cup 1979–80 UEFA Cup 1980–81 UEFA Cup Adolf Prokop Walter Eschweiler 1981–82 UEFA Cup 1982–83 UEFA Cup 1983–84 UEFA Cup 1984–85 UEFA Cup Michel Vautrot 1985–86 UEFA Cup Bob Valentine (referee) 1986–87 UEFA Cup Siegfried Kirschen 1987–88 UEFA Cup 1988–89 UEFA Cup 1989–90 UEFA Cup Aron Schmidhuber 1990–91 UEFA Cup 1991–92 UEFA Cup 1992–93 UEFA Cup John Blankenstein 1993–94 UEFA Cup Kim Milton Nielsen 1994–95 UEFA Cup 1995–96 UEFA Cup 1996–97 UEFA Cup 1997–98 UEFA Cup 1998–99 UEFA Cup 1999–2000 UEFA Cup 2000–01 UEFA Cup 2001–02 UEFA Cup 2002–03 UEFA Cup 2003–04 UEFA Cup Pierluigi Collina 2004–05 UEFA Cup Graham Poll 2005–06 UEFA Cup Herbert Fandel 2006–07 UEFA Cup 2007–08 UEFA Cup 2008–09 UEFA Cup Luis Medina Cantalejo Nicola Rizzoli Carlos Velasco Carballo Wolfgang Stark 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 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 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 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 2004–05 DFB-Pokal Florian Meyer 2005–06 DFB-Pokal 2006–07 DFB-Pokal Michael Weiner (referee) 2007–08 DFB-Pokal Knut Kircher 2008–09 DFB-Pokal 2009–10 DFB-Pokal 2010–11 DFB-Pokal 2011–12 DFB-Pokal Peter Gagelmann 2012–13 DFB-Pokal

807840