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Martin Atkinson was born on 31 March, 1971 in Drighlington, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, is an English professional football referee. Discover Martin Atkinson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March 1971
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Drighlington, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1971

Martin Atkinson (born 31 March 1971) is an English referee coach and retired professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League.

He is a member of the West Riding County Football Association.

1995

Atkinson made his first appearance as an official in the Football League as an assistant referee in 1995.

1998

By 1998, he had been promoted to the Football League's list of assistant referees.

2000

This was followed in 2000 by promotion to the Select Group of assistant referees.

2002

By December 2002 he was refereeing Football Conference matches, and also refereed the 2003 FA County Youth Cup final.

2003

At the start of the 2003–04 season, Atkinson joined the national list of referees.

During the three seasons between 2003 and 2006, Atkinson issued only eight red cards in 102 matches, an average of less than 0.08 per game.

2004

Since he was promoted to the list of Select Group Referees in 2004 he refereed a number of notable matches, including the FA Community Shield and the finals of the FA Trophy, Football League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Europa League.

Atkinson retired from field duties at the end of the 2021–22 season and will coach the select group one referees for Premier League in the 2022–23 season.

Atkinson started his refereeing career at the relatively early age of 16 years, as the local team did not have a referee to oversee matches.

He had the distinction of not sending off any player from the field of play between August 2004 and October 2005.

Atkinson made his Premier League officiating debut on 18 September 2004 in a match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City.

2006

In 2006 Atkinson was appointed to the list of FIFA referees.

Atkinson refereed the 2006 FA Community Shield match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Liverpool defeated Chelsea 2–1, with Atkinson issuing four yellow cards during the course of the game.

2007

On 13 October 2007, Atkinson refereed a group C qualifier for Euro 2008 between Moldova and Turkey.

The game in the Moldovan capital Chişinău ended a 1–1 draw, with the referee showing two yellow cards.

2008

Atkinson was appointed to referee the 2008 FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium, which was contested between Ebbsfleet United and Torquay United.

The 2008–09 season was the first that Atkinson took charge of UEFA Champions League games.

That season he refereed four matches, including FC Zürich against Real Madrid and Inter Milan versus Dynamo Kyiv.

2009

The 2009–10 season saw Atkinson referee 48 matches in English football, his highest tally of appointments in one season to date.

Atkinson officiated multiple matches during 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification, including the UEFA group 4 qualifying game between Germany and Finland in Hamburg on 14 October 2009 which ended 1–1.

One month later, he officiated Portugal's 1–0 qualifying win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2010

In September 2010, Atkinson was handed a one-week demotion to the role of fourth official after a time-keeping dispute with Everton manager David Moyes.

Everton had scored two injury-time goals to make the score 3–3 against Manchester United, but Atkinson then blew his final whistle while Everton were midway through an attack with a chance of a winner.

On 22 May 2022, Atkinson was in charge of his final Premier league match, between Crystal Palace and Manchester United at Selhurst Park, which also happens to be the ground he made his debut 17 years ago.

At the time of his retirement, he had refereed 462 games in the Premier league, which is second highest in the competition, after Mike Dean's 560.

In 2010 Atkinson was fourth official to Howard Webb for the Champions League final in Madrid.

2011

Atkinson was appointed to officiate the 2011 FA Cup final.

Manchester City defeated Stoke City 1–0; Atkinson issued two yellow cards to two Stoke players during the match.

He issued his first Champions League red card on 5 April 2011, to Cristian Chivu of Inter Milan as they lost 5–2 at home to Schalke.

2012

He officiated at Euro 2012 as an additional assistant referee in a team with referee Howard Webb.

2014

Atkinson refereed the 2014 Football League Cup final between Manchester City and Sunderland.

City won the match 3–1 and Atkinson cautioned two players, both late in the second half.

The referee abandoned a Euro 2016 qualifying match in Belgrade between Serbia and Albania on 14 October 2014 when violence on the pitch and crowd disturbances broke out after a quadcopter was flown over the pitch bearing a flag of Greater Albania.

2015

On 27 May 2015, Atkinson was in charge of the 2015 UEFA Europa League Final between Sevilla and Dnipro.

Seville won 3-2 and defended their title.

2016

Atkinson refereed 3 games at Euro 2016: Germany v Ukraine and Hungary v Portugal at group stage, as well as a round of 16 game between Wales and Northern Ireland.

2018

With no English officials being selected for the 2018 World Cup, the first time since 1938, Atkinson refereed his last international match in March 2018, a friendly between Argentina and Italy at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.