Urs Meier (born January 22, 1959 in Würenlos, Aargau) is a retired Swiss football referee. He officiated at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, taking charge of the semi-final between South Korea and Germany in 2002. He also refereed the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final as well that year. He also appeared at Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, refereeing the quarter-final between England and Portugal in 2004. He retired 6 months later.

Pierluigi Collina (born 13 February 1960) is an Italian former football referee. He was named FIFA's "Best Referee of the Year" six consecutive times and is widely considered to be the greatest football referee of all time. Collina is still involved in football, as an unpaid consultant to the Italian Football Referees Association (AIA), as the Head of Referees for the Football Federation of Ukraine since 2010, as a member of the UEFA Referees Committee, and as Chairman of the FIFA referees committee.

Kim Milton Nielsen (born August 3, 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a former international football referee. An IT manager by trade, Nielsen is noted for his impressive height of 1.96m, making him taller than most players. Nielsen began refereeing at 15 years of age, as he wanted to know the Laws of Football. A decade later, he began taking charge of Danish top-flight games, and he was awarded his FIFA international badge in 1988 when he was still in his late 20s.

Markus Merk (born 15 March 1962) is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. He ended his career by refereeing the match between Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC Berlin on the last day of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season on 17 May 2008.

Saad Kameel Al-Fadhli (Arabic: سعد كميل‎) (born January 6, 1963) is a former Kuwaiti football referee, best known for supervising three matches at the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Japan and South Korea.

Mourad Daami (Arabic: مراد الدعمي; born August 15, 1962) in Monastir is a retired Tunisian football referee. He is known for supervising one match during the 2002 FIFA World Cup co hosted by South Korea and Japan.

Gamal Mahmoud Ahmed El-Ghandour (Arabic: جمال محمود الغندور‎) (born June 12, 1957) is a retired Egyptian referee.

Ali Mohamed Bujsaim (Arabic: علي بوجسيم‎) (born September 9, 1959) is a retired football (soccer) referee from the United Arab Emirates, best known for supervising at three FIFA World Cups: 1994 (two matches), 1998 (three matches) and 2002 (two matches).

Felipe de Jesús Ramos Rizo (born March 10, 1963 in Mexico City) is a FIFA football referee from Mexico, who officiated three matches at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He made his debut as a referee on May 2, 1983. Ramos officiated the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medal match between Cameroon and Spain. In 2001 FIFA assigned Ramos to officiate a 2002 World Cup qualifier between Iraq and Iran, which was held in Baghdad, Iraq.

Carlos Alberto Batres González (born April 2, 1968 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan football referee. He has refereed FIFA World Cup qualification and final tournament matches, and at Olympic tournaments.