Ferdinand Biwersi (24 June 1934 – 4 September 2013) was a German football referee. Biwersi was a referee for the German Football Association between 1965 and 1978. He refereed 121 games in the Fußball-Bundesliga, and 27 games in the

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within this time span. One of his last matches was the record Bundesliga victory (

Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund On 29 April 1978, the final match day of the 1977–78 Fußball-Bundesliga season, Borussia Mönchengladbach played Borussia Dortmund with the possibility of winning the Bundesliga championship. Knowing that if 1. FC Köln won their game away to ...

). Since there were no

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s in the 1970s, Biwersi had to go and fetch the balls which were shot past Dortmund's goal. From 1969 until 1978, Biwersi was also a FIFA referee. He was in charge of 16 international matches and 26 European Cup games. Biwersi refereed the match between the

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and Sudan during the

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. He was a linesman at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and took charge of one game at the

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four years later in

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Biwersi biography
at worldreferee.com
Profile
at worldfootball.net 1934 births 2013 deaths People from Saarbrücken (district) German football referees 1978 FIFA World Cup referees Olympic football referees {{Germany-footy-bio-stub