The Most Famous
REFEREES from Singapore
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Singaporean Referees of all time. This list of famous Singaporean Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Muhammad Taqi (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 36.93, Muhammad Taqi is the most famous Singaporean Referee. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Muhammad Taqi Al-Jaafari bin Jahari (born 25 October 1986) is a Singaporean international football referee. He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012, and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches. He has also won the 2014 S.League Referee of the Year and the AFF Referee of the Year in 2017. Taqi refereed the matches in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. He has also officiated in the finals of the 2012, 2014, and 2019 Singapore Cup Final, the 2019 Indian Super League final, the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship, the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, as well as matches in the Chinese Super League, Indian Super League, Indonesia Super League, and the Indonesia President's Cup. Taqi was selected as a Video Assistant Referee at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup becoming the first Singaporean to officiate at both the men's and women's World Cup tournaments. He also was selected as the assistant VAR referee in the 2020 Olympic football final between Brazil and Spain. Taqi is the fifth Singaporean referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup after George Suppiah (1974), Shamsul Maidin (2006), K. Visvanathan (2002) and Jeffrey Goh (2010).
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Singaporean referees born between 1986 and 1986. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Singaporean referees include Muhammad Taqi. As of April 2024, 1 new Singaporean referees have been added to Pantheon including Muhammad Taqi.
