The Spanish collegiate Marta Huerta de Aza is among the twelve selected by UEFA to lead matches this summer in the Women’s Eurocup that will be played in Switzerland between July 2 and 27, in what will be a new appointment for La Palencia.
Owstay, attached to the Tenerife Committee and that this season has become the first woman to arbitrate male professional football matches, in LaLiga Hypermotion, was already designated by the European agency for the Eurocup of England of 2022, where inaugural England-Austria, and for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand of 2023 where the 2023 China-Haiti of the group stage.
Along with the experienced Spanish collegiate, their usual companions, Eliana Fernández and Guadalupe Porras will be as attendees, while the Basque Olatz Rivera will go to this European championship as one of the three support referees.
UEFA has also chosen for the continental tournament to Catarina Ferreira Campos (Portugal), Iuliana Demetrescu and Alina Pesu (Romania), María Sole Ferrieri Caputi and Silvia Gasperotti (Italy), Désirée Grundbacher (Switzerland), Stéphanie Frappart (France), Frida Klarlund (Denmark), Katalin), Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary), Ivana Martincic (Croatia) and Tess Olofsson (Sweden). In addition, “as part of the current cooperation between UEFA and CONMEBOL,” the Brazilian Edina Alves Batista, along with two attendees, will join the European Referee Group for the final phase.
UEFA recalled that the arbitral teams of each game will be composed of a referee, two assistant referees and a fourth referee, while a team of two video referees will be active in each match and will operate throughout the tournament from its headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland). The preparation of these arbitras for the Eurocup will include a course that will be taught in UEFA shortly before the tournament.
“While we prepare for the 2025 female Eurocup in Switzerland, we are greatly pleased to see the continuous growth of our best referees, which reflects the remarkable development of women’s football as a whole,” said Roberto Rosetti, director of arbitration of the European football governing body.
The former Italian pointed out that “as always in one euro, the best and most consistent referees have been selected.” “It should be noted that all of them have overcome the same physical aptitude test that we carry out for the elite male referees. We have full confidence in them and their assistants, as well as in the video referees, to demonstrate their quality in the final phase of the tournament,” he said.