assistant referee

English

Noun

assistant referee (plural assistant referees)

1. (soccer, UK): One of the two officials at an association football match, previously known as linesmen, who assist the referee.
   • 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 September 2026:

     Maccabi's Yoan Ziv also saw red in the second half for kicking a boot at the assistant referee.

Translations

official at a football match

• Catalan: àrbitre assistent m or f
• Danish: linjedommer (da)
• Dutch: assistent-scheidsrechter (nl) m
• Finnish: avustava erotuomari, aputuomari
• Galician: árbitro asistente m, árbitra asistente f
• German: Schiedsrichterassistent (de) m, Linienrichter (de)
• Italian: guardalinee (it) m
• Romanian: arbitru asistent m, arbitru de linie m
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-loidhne m
• Spanish: árbitro asistente m, árbitra asistente f
• Swahili: mwamuzi msaidizi
• Swedish: assisterande domare (sv) c, linjedomare (sv) c, AD (sv) c (acronym), ass-domare c, linjeman (sv) c

Anagrams

• referee assistant