Marta Huerta de Aza (born 31 March 1990) is a Spanish teacher and first division football referee whose importance in Spain was recognised with the Vicente Acevedo Trophy.

Life

Born in

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, she lives in the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

. She became interested in becoming a referee after she went on a course when she was fifteen. She has been a

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international match referee since 2016. She works as a teacher and because she is not considered an elite athlete in the Canaries she has to juggle her part-time teaching with her commitments as a referee. In 2017 she refereed her first First Women's Division game. She was awarded the Vicente Acevedo Trophy as the best referee in Spain. On 9 February 2019, she was the referee for the 2020 Spanish Women's Soccer Super Cup final. The match was between

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad (; ''Royal Society''), La Real in Spanish, Erreala in Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 Septem ...

and

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Founded ...

at the

Helmántico Stadium ''Estadio Helmántico'' (English: Helmántico Stadium) is a football stadium in Salamanca, Spain where UD Salamanca played home matches, and is the home stadium of Salamanca CF UDS. The stadium holds 17,341 and was built in 1970. It is located in ...

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

(The score was 1-10). On 3 October 2021 she was a referee in a First Division game. The game was between

Getafe Getafe () is a municipality and a city in Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. , it has a population of 180,747, the region's sixth most populated municipality. Getafe is located 13 km south of Madrid's city centre, within a flat ar ...

and

. The other referee was Jorge Figueroa Vázquez and they had two assistants: Guadalupe Porras Ayuso and Yeray Carreño Cabrera. She became the first woman to serve as the fourth referee in the men's First Division. In May 2022, she was a referee in

UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

quarter finals, between Bayern Munich and PSG. She refereed the Women Euro 2022 football game between

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and

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on July 6, 2022. She and Jorge Figueroa Vázquez have been chosen as referees for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Private life

She is married and has a daughter who was born in 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huerta de Aza, Marta Spanish referees and umpires Sportspeople from the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife People from Palencia Sportspeople from the Province of Palencia UEFA Women's Euro 2022 referees 1990 births Living people Women referees and umpires