UEFA Champions League Final 2021

The UEFA Referees Committee has announced that Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz will referee the 2021 UEFA Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC. The match is scheduled to be played on Saturday 29 May at 21:00 CET at Porto. The 44-year-old Spaniard, an international referee since 2011, will be taking charge of his first UEFA Champions League final, after serving as fourth official at the 2019 final between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool FC in Madrid, Spain. He has officiated at six matches in the UEFA Champions League this season, including the quarter-final first-leg match between Bayern München and Paris Saint-Germain. Mateu Lahoz has also recently been selected as one of the referees for UEFA Euro 2020. At the final, Mateu Lahoz will be assisted by countrymen Pau Cebrian Devis and Roberto Diaz Perez del Palomar, while another Spaniard, Carlos del Cerro Grande, will be fourth official. The video assistant referee (VAR) role has been assigned to Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez (Spain) and he will be accompanied by compatriots Juan Martinez Munuera and Inigo Prieto Lopez de Cerain. Pawel Gil (Poland) completes the VAR line-up. (Source: UEFA)