George Ayoub

Rugby player

George Ayoub

Birth name

George Joseph Peter Ayoub

Date of birth

(1963-10-23) 23 October 1963 (age 60)

Place of birth

Sydney, Australia^[1]

Rugby union career

Refereeing career
Years	Competition	Apps
2001–2007 2000–2004	Test Matches Super Rugby IRB Sevens World Series

George Ayoub (born 23 October 1963) is an Australian professional rugby union referee. He is currently a member of the Super Rugby panel for Television Match Officials (known as TMO), and is a former Test Match referee.^[2]

Born in Sydney, Ayoub trained as a teacher and took up refereeing in 1990 when he was a schoolmaster at St Patrick's College, Strathfield.^[3]^[4] By 1995 he was refereeing senior rugby in Sydney and he was selected on the Australian referees panel in 1996.^[4] He made his Super Rugby debut in May 2000, refereeing a Super 12 match between the Sharks and Chiefs in Durban.^[5]

Ayoub was appointed to his first Test in May 2002 between Japan and Tonga,^[6] and went on to referee 3 Tests and 17 Super Rugby matches before he retired at the end of 2007.^[3] In 2008 he returned to international rugby as a TMO.^[7]

References

^ "George Ayoub". ESPN Scrum. 26 May 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
^ "George Ayoub". Australian Rugby. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Ayoub retires from active refereeing". Planet Rugby. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "George Ayoub to retire". Rugby News. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014.
^ "Ayoub to make Super 12 refereeing debut". ESPN Scrum. 1 May 2000. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
^ "Japan v Tonga at Kumagaya". ESPN Scrum. 26 May 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
^ Hal, Louise (13 July 2008). "Super-fit but that just did not count". Fairfax. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.