Katherine Margaret Jacewicz (born 6 April 1985) is an Australian
soccer referee. She was first
FIFA listed in 2011.
Refereeing career
Jacewicz began refereeing at the age of 13 when her brother's team needed a referee.
After being appointed to referee the
2019 W-League Grand Final, this was her ninth final out of the first eleven seasons of the W-League, which was rebranded in 2021 as
A-League Women.
She became a FIFA referee in 2011,
and was in charge of the
Final
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of the
2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tourna ...
in Jordan.
Jacewicz was selected as one of the 27 referees for the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international Women's association football championship contested by 24 women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA. I ...
.
After the conclusion of the round of 16, Jacewicz was retained as one of 11 officials to be assigned matches for the remainder of the tournament.
In the
2019–20 A-League season Jacewicz became the first woman to referee a match in the
A-League, when she took charge of the
Melbourne City match against
Newcastle Jets
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.
References
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1985 births
Australian soccer referees
Women association football referees
Living people
A-League Women referees
Australian people of Polish descent
FIFA Women's World Cup referees
Australian women referees and umpires