Chris Kerr (born 2 September 1976) is a retired

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, from Auckland, New Zealand. He officiated on the

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, the national football competition of New Zealand, and is also a former OFC Champions League referee in the

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. His occupation is as a Systems Engineer.

Career

Kerr first took up refereeing in 1991 at the age of 14 in his home town of

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. In 2006, he became a referee on the

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. In 2009, he officiated his first OFC Champions League match between

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(Solomon Islands) and Lautoka F.C. (Fiji) in Honiara. Since then, he has refereed further OFC Champions League games and was a match official at the South Pacific Games in 2011 refereeing his first international. In 2012, he was promoted to the

list as a referee and nominated for New Zealand Footballs' Referee of the year. Kerr was appointed as a match official at OFC Nations Cup, which served as round 2 of qualification for the

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in Brazil for the OFC region. He officiated the match between Tahiti and

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. Kerr came off the FIFA referee list at the start of 2013 due to being unavailable In 2014, Kerr was the referee for the Chatham Cup Final at North Harbour Stadium between Central United and Cashmere Technical 2014 Chatham Cup Final Preview
media release

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kerr, Chris 1976 births Living people New Zealand association football referees