Alexis Ponnet

Belgian referee

Alexis Ponnet
Domestic
Born	(1939-03-09) 9 March 1939 (age 85) Brussels, Belgium
Years	League	Role
1972–1989	Belgian First Division	Referee
International
Years	League	Role
1975–1989	FIFA-listed	Referee

Alexis Ponnet (born 9 March 1939 in Brussels) is a former Belgian football referee. Ponnet is best known for supervising two matches in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain and one in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1987 between Porto and Bayern Munich. He also refereed two UEFA European Football Championship in 1984 and 1988.

In February 1983, Ponnet was rendered unconscious and hospitalized overnight after Saudi Arabian player Jamal Farhan punched him in the head during the World Military Cup between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Ponnet had given him a red card minutes earlier. Farhan was subsequently banned from international games for life by FIFA.^[1]^[2]

References

Profile at weltfussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 May 2007) (in German)

^ "Internationally renowned Belgian soccer referee Alexis Ponnet was knocked..." United Press International. 28 February 1983. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ Nour, Waleed (4 September 2011). "Rampant bad refereeing: When will FIFA wake up?". Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020.

External links

Alexis Ponnet at WorldReferee.com
Alexis Ponnet referee profile at Soccerway
Alexis Ponnet referee profile at EU-Football.info

Preceded by

European Cup Final 1986

Michel Vautrot

European Cup Referees
Final 1987
Alexis Ponnet

Succeeded by

European Cup Final 1988

Luigi Agnolin

European Cup and UEFA Champions League final referees

European Cup era, 1955–1992
1950s	1956: Arthur Edward Ellis (ENG) 1957: Leo Horn (NED) 1958: Albert Alsteen (BEL) 1959: Albert Dusch (FRG)
1960s	1960: Jack Mowat (SCO) 1961: Gottfried Dienst (SUI) 1962: Leo Horn (NED) 1963: Arthur Holland (ENG) 1964: Josef Stoll (AUT) 1965: Gottfried Dienst (SUI) 1966: Rudolf Kreitlein (FRG) 1967: Kurt Tschenscher (FRG) 1968: Concetto Lo Bello (ITA) 1969: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (ESP)
1970s	1970: Concetto Lo Bello (ITA) 1971: Jack Taylor (ENG) 1972: Robert Helles (FRA) 1973: Milivoje Gugulović (YUG) 1974: Vital Loraux (BEL) & Alfred Delcourt (BEL) 1975: Michel Kitabdjian (FRA) 1976: Károly Palotai (HUN) 1977: Robert Wurtz (FRA) 1978: Charles Corver (NED) 1979: Erich Linemayr (AUT)
1980s	1980: António Garrido (POR) 1981: Károly Palotai (HUN) 1982: Georges Konrath (FRA) 1983: Nicolae Rainea (ROU) 1984: Erik Fredriksson (SWE) 1985: André Daina (SUI) 1986: Michel Vautrot (FRA) 1987: Alexis Ponnet (BEL) 1988: Luigi Agnolin (ITA) 1989: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (FRG)
1990s	1990: Helmut Kohl (AUT) 1991: Tullio Lanese (ITA) 1992: Aron Schmidhuber (GER)

UEFA Champions League era, 1992–present
1990s	1993: Kurt Röthlisberger (SUI) 1994: Philip Don (ENG) 1995: Ion Crăciunescu (ROU) 1996: Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP) 1997: Sándor Puhl (HUN) 1998: Hellmut Krug (GER) 1999: Pierluigi Collina (ITA)
2000s	2000: Stefano Braschi (ITA) 2001: Dick Jol (NED) 2002: Urs Meier (SUI) 2003: Markus Merk (GER) 2004: Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 2005: Manuel Mejuto González (ESP) 2006: Terje Hauge (NOR) 2007: Herbert Fandel (GER) 2008: Ľuboš Micheľ (SVK) 2009: Massimo Busacca (SUI)
2010s	2010: Howard Webb (ENG) 2011: Viktor Kassai (HUN) 2012: Pedro Proença (POR) 2013: Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) 2014: Björn Kuipers (NED) 2015: Cüneyt Çakır (TUR) 2016: Mark Clattenburg (ENG) 2017: Felix Brych (GER) 2018: Milorad Mažić (SRB) 2019: Damir Skomina (SVN)
2020s	2020: Daniele Orsato (ITA) 2021: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP) 2022: Clément Turpin (FRA) 2023: Szymon Marciniak (POL)

v t e Referees at the 1982 FIFA World Cup
AFC	Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy Thomson Chan
CAF	Yousef El Ghoul Benjamin Dwomoh Belaïd Lacarne
CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Luis Paulino Siles David Socha
CONMEBOL	Gilberto Aristizábal Luis Barrancos Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Gastón Castro Juan Daniel Cardellino Arturo Ithurralde Enrique Labo Revoredo Héctor Ortiz Mario Rubio Vázquez
OFC	Tony Boskovic
UEFA	Charles Corver Vojtech Christov Augusto Lamo Castillo Paolo Casarin Bogdan Dochev Walter Eschweiler Erik Fredriksson António Garrido Bruno Galler Alojzy Jarguz Abraham Klein Henning Lund-Sørensen Damir Matovinović Malcolm Moffatt Károly Palotai Alexis Ponnet Adolf Prokop Nicolae Rainea Myroslav Stupar Bob Valentine Michel Vautrot Clive White Franz Wöhrer

v t e Referees at UEFA Euro 1984
Paolo Bergamo (ITA) Vojtech Christov (CZE) George Courtney (ENG) André Daina (SUI) Heinz Fahnler (AUT) Erik Fredriksson (SWE) Romualdas Juška (URS) Jan Keizer (NED) Augusto Lamo Castillo (ESP) Alexis Ponnet (BEL) Adolf Prokop (GDR) Volker Roth (FRG) Bob Valentine (SCO) Michel Vautrot (FRA)

v t e Referees at the 1986 FIFA World Cup
AFC	Fallaj Al-Shanar Jamal Al Sharif Shizuo Takada
CAF	Ali Ben Nasser Edwin Picon-Ackong Idrissa Traoré
CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Antonio Márquez Ramírez David Socha Berny Ulloa Morera
CONMEBOL	Romualdo Arppi Filho Jesús Díaz Carlos Espósito Gabriel González José Luis Martínez Bazan Hernán Silva
OFC	Chris Bambridge
UEFA	Luigi Agnolin Horst Brummeier Valeri Butenko Vojtech Christov George Courtney André Daina Bogdan Dochev Erik Fredriksson Ioan Igna Jan Keizer Siegfried Kirschen Lajos Németh Zoran Petrović Alexis Ponnet Joël Quiniou Volker Roth Victoriano Sánchez Arminio Carlos Silva Valente Alan Snoddy

v t e Referees at UEFA Euro 1988
Horst Brummeier (AUT) Paolo Casarin (ITA) Erik Fredriksson (SWE) Bruno Galler (SUI) Keith Hackett (ENG) Ioan Igna (ROU) Siegfried Kirschen (GDR) Dieter Pauly (FRG) Alexis Ponnet (BEL) José Rosa dos Santos (POR) Emilio Soriano Aladrén (ESP) Bep Thomas (NED) Bob Valentine (SCO) Michel Vautrot (FRA)