FIFA has revealed the 21 match officials who will take charge at the upcoming Men's and Women's FIFA Youth Olympic Futsal Tournaments in Dakar, Senegal.

Staged as part of the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic Games, the futsal tournaments will feature a combined 16 teams (eight men’s and eight women’s) and will be played 1-12 November at the Dakar Arena and the Complexe Iba Mar Diop. Athletes up to the age of 17 are eligible to participate.

The 21 referees hail from all six continental confederations. They will officiate 32 matches, from the opener between the women from Costa Rica and IR Iran on 1 November through to the men’s gold medal final on 12 November.

This will be the second time futsal is contested at the Summer Youth Olympic Games. In Buenos Aires, Argentina eight years ago, Brazil earned the men’s gold medal while Portugal won the women’s. The 2022 Youth Olympics, which were scheduled for Dakar, were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The list of match officials, by confederation:

AFC: Yahya Alathwani (Saudi Arabia), Najat Hassan Mohamed Hassan Alblooshi (UAE), Nour Chaito (Lebanon), Takeshi Fujita (Japan), Zahra Rahimi (IR Iran).

CAF: Ali Mohammed Adim Alayat (Libya), Malika Nada Chihaoui (Algeria).

Concacaf: Servando Berna Rico (USA), Alexis Vaughan (Canada).

CONMEBOL: Juliana Caroline Angelo (Brazil), Feliciano Farina Martinez (Paraguay), Federico Piccardo Elhordoy (Uruguay), Lorena Elizabeth Sanchez (Argentina).

OFC: Arnaud Llambrich (New Caledonia).

UEFA: Laurentiu Ilie (San Marino), Jasmina Mickoska (Serbia), Jernej Petek (Slovenia), Vilde Vistven Stenseth (Norway), Turekhan Tursumbayev (Kazakhstan), Fatma Oezlem Tursun (Turkiye).

Support Referee: Roosa-Maria Karoliina Tuomi (Finland)