As was already reported, the main referee for the return match of the Nations League playoff between the national teams of Belgium and Ukraine for the right to participate in Division "A" of this tournament in the next season, which will take place today in Genk, is German Daniel Siebert.
Daniel SiebertThis 40-year-old referee has been officiating international matches since 2015. He worked at Euro 2020, World Cup 2022, and Euro 2024. In the German Bundesliga, 182 matches have taken place under his officiating.
At the same time, Siebert has never officiated matches involving Ukrainian teams (both at the club and national team levels).
The last appointment for an international match that the German referee received was in September of last year — for a group stage match of the Champions League between French PSG and Spanish "Girona" (1:0).
Siebert can be considered a fairly lenient referee: he shows an average of 4 yellow cards per match, and he resorts to direct red cards in about every 13th match. He awards penalties on average in every fourth match.
