Lars Christian Andreas Ekberg (born 2 January 1985), known as Andreas Ekberg, is a Swedish
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
referee
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titl ...
. Ekberg currently resides in
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
. He has been a full-time international referee for
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
since 2013. He became a professional referee in 2004 and has been an
Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...
referee since 2009. Ekberg has refereed 185 matches in Allsvenskan, 56 matches in
Superettan
Superettan (; meaning the super first (division)) is an association football league and the second highest league in the league system of Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Al ...
and 72 international matches as of 2021. Ekberg began refereeing matches in
Torns IF
Torns IF is a Swedish football club located in Stångby, an urban area in Lund Municipality in Skåne County.
Background
Torns Idrottsförening was formed in 1965 and is based in Stångby, just north of the city of Lund. Torns IF is an expanding ...
when he was 13 years old.
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See also
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List of football referees
This is a list of current FIFA international referees. Years in brackets indicate when the referee was added to the FIFA International Referees List.
Afghanistan
Men's
Referees
* Halim Shirzad (2019)
Assistant Referees
* Nangyal ...
References
External links
FIFASvFF
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1985 births
Living people
Swedish football referees
UEFA Euro 2020 referees
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