Lithuanians - invited again to work in international competitions

2023-08-26 18:41 © AFP

Lithuanian football referees inspectors and delegates are still invited to work at international European tournament matches.

Gediminas Mažeika received an invitation to work at the UEFA Europa Conference League final qualifying round second leg match between "Brann" and Alkmaar AZ (Netherlands) teams in Norway.

The match will start at 20:00 Lithuania time on Thursday, with a refereeing team from Hungary (main referee - Gergo Bogaras).

The first meeting of the teams in the Netherlands ended in a 1:1 draw. The team that wins this pair will advance to the main tournament stages, while the losing team will end their international season.

**********

This time, match delegate Ignas Marcinkevičius received a similar invitation. He was invited to officiate at the UEFA Europa Conference League final qualifying round second leg match. The match will feature "Dnipro-1" from Ukraine and Trnava's "Spartak" from Slovakia.

This will be the second meeting between these teams - the first leg match ended in a 1:1 draw last week. The team that triumphs in this pair will advance to the main stage of the Conference League, while the losing team will end their international season.

The match will start at 21:00 Lithuania time, with referees from Hungary officiating (main referee - Balazs Berke). Meanwhile, former renowned English referee Martin Atkinson will work as the match inspector.

It is worth noting that this is I. Marcinkevičius' second invitation to officiate in the Conference League qualifying rounds. He also officiated the second leg match in Norway, where on August 3rd the hosts "Rosenborg" met the "Crusaders" team from Northern Ireland.