Maryna Striletska (also transliterated Marina Streletskaya, uk, Марина Стрілецька, born 22 August 1983) is a Ukrainian association football referee. In 2020, she was part of the first all-women officiating team for a men's international match. Since 2022, she officiates in the

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Career

As a teenager, Striletska competed in athletics as well as football. In 2006, she started officiating in Ukraine; as of 2011, she was the only female referee in the Luhansk region. Striletska has worked as an international

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under main official Kateryna Monzul, and has officiated at the

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, UEFA Women's Championship, UEFA Women's Champions League and Olympic Games. She has also officiated in men's matches in the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League and the Ukrainian Premier League. Striletska was an assistant referee for the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. She was an assistant referee for one of the semi-finals of UEFA Women's Euro 2017. She was the reserve assistant referee for the 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. At the

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, she was a video assistant referee for the group stage match between Brazil and Jamaica. She was the reserve assistant referee for the

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. In 2020, Monzul, Striletska and

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became the first all-women officiating team for a men's international match when they refereed a match between San Marino and

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. In 2021, she was an assistant referee in the

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women's semi-final match between the United States and Canada. Later in the year, she was an assistant referee for the men's match between England and Andorra, alongside Monzul and Svitlana Grushko. It was the first time that a woman had officiated an England men's international match. In March 2022, she started officiating in the

. Later in the year, she was chosen as an official for UEFA Women's Euro 2022; she was later an assistant referee for the Final.

Personal life

Striletska is from Luhansk,

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(now Ukraine). Her paternal family are from Siberia, Russia. Her husband Sergei Streletsky is also a referee. In 2011, Striletska gave birth to a daughter. After the

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, Striletska fled to Switzerland.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Striletska, Maryna 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Luhansk Women association football referees FIFA Women's World Cup referees UEFA Europa League referees Ukrainian football referees Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland UEFA Women's Euro 2022 referees Ukrainian people of Russian descent