The UEFA Champions League 2nd qualifying round first leg between FC Dynamo Kyiv and FK Partizan Belgrade will be refereed by Christian Dingert from Germany.
Dingert was born on July 14 1980 in Thallichtenberg. He started refereeing in the German Bundesliga in the 2010/2011 season, since then he hasn’t missed a single season.
Dingert became a referee of the FIFA category in 2013. He started working at euro cups matches in 2013/2014 season. From 2013/2014 till 2018/2019 season, Dingert worked exclusively at the Europa League qualification matches (in the 2015/2016 season, he refereed two matches of the group stage). In 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons, he worked at the Europa Conference League qualifiers.
He referees the Champions League qualification matches since 2023/2024 season.
Besides, Dingert refereed matches of the youth European championships, international friendly matches, was involved in the games of the leagues of Greece, India and Saudi Arabia.
Interesting fact
In April of 2022, a scandal broke out in the Bundesliga match refereed by Christian Dingert. During the game between Freiburg and Bayern 12 players of the Munich side were on the field at the same time. In the 84th and 85th minutes of the game of the 28th matchday of the Bundesliga, the head coach of Bayern Julian Nagelsmann made two substitutions: Marcel Sabitzer replaced Kingsley Coman, Niklas Süle replaced Corentin Tolisso. However, Coman did not leave the field, so Bayern remained with 12 players. Referee Christian Dingert didn’t notice it immediately. Bayern played like that advantage for about 15 seconds, after which the match was stopped.
After a long discussion for about 5 minutes, the referees decided to continue the game. Bayern won 4:1, but Freiburg filed an appeal, claiming a technical defeat for the Munich side. The blame was laid on the officials.
The game between Dynamo and Partizan will be the first one for Dingert this season. Last season Christian mostly worked in German competitions – first, second and third Bundesliga and the national Cup. In 26 games he showed 4,62 yellow cards on average, 0,15 red cards and awarded 0,46 penalties.
Photo imago/Jan Huebner, imago/Claus Bergmann and fcdynamo.com/Ihor Bondarenko
