Three Moroccan referees have been selected by FIFA to oversee games at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Chile 2025, which will take place from 27 September to 19 October.
The match officials include Jalal Jayed (referee), along with assistant referees Lahsen Azgaou and Mostafa Akarkad, according to the list released Wednesday by the FIFA Referees Committee. The roster features a total of 54 match officials (18 referees and 36 assistant referees) representing 22 member associations.
“Following the success of the FIFA Club World Cup, we look forward to another exciting tournament, for which we have once again appointed a very strong Team One line-up. From a refereeing perspective, it’s very important that the officials have the opportunity to be involved at a tournament featuring the stars of tomorrow and for us to carry out further testing of Football Video Support (FVS), which has been a great success so far,” said Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, in a FIFA press release.
The use of FVS at the tournament follows on from the trials implemented last year at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia and the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup™ in the Dominican Republic.
The FVS trials followed numerous requests from member associations for an alternative, cost-effective way of using technology to support match officials.
Unlike the video assistant referee (VAR) system, FVS does not use dedicated video match officials and therefore does not check all match-changing incidents.
Instead, the onus falls on the respective coaches, who are allowed to make a limited number of review requests per game when they feel that a clear and obvious error has been made in match-changing incidents, such as goals, penalty decisions, direct red card incidents, or cases of mistaken identity. The players can also recommend that their coaches request a review.
Morocco’s U-20 national team has qualified for the tournament and will compete in Group C. They are set to play their opening match against Spain on September 28 in the Chilean capital, followed by a clash with Brazil on October 1, also in Santiago. The team will then travel to Valparaíso to face Mexico on October 4.
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