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Gottfried Dienst

1919 - 1998

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Gottfried Dienst (Basel, 9 September 1919 – Bern, 1 June 1998) was a Swiss association football referee. He was mostly known as the referee of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final. Dienst is one of only four men to have twice refereed a European Cup final, which he did in 1961 and 1965, and one of only two (the other being Italian referee Sergio Gonella) to have refereed both the European Championship and World Cup finals. He refereed the original 1968 European Championship final, which ended in a 1–1 draw between Italy and Yugoslavia. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried Dienst is the 16th most popular referee (up from 24th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 484th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Gottfried Dienst ranks 16 out of 147. Before her are Said Belqola, Nicolae Rainea, Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, Jack Taylor, and Howard Webb. After her are Sergio Gonella, Roberto Rosetti, István Kovács, Maurice Guigue, Viktor Kassai, and Gamal Al-Ghandour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gottfried Dienst ranks 203. Before her are Doris Miller, Michèle Arnaud, Laila Schou Nilsen, Roman Vlad, Polina Gelman, and Olle Anderberg. After her are Gert Fredriksson, Karl H. Pribram, Vladimír Vašíček, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Veikko Huhtanen, and Mohammad Yunus Khalis. Among people deceased in 1998, Gottfried Dienst ranks 182. Before her are Michèle Arnaud, Laila Schou Nilsen, Keith Newton, Julio César Britos, Inge Scholl, and Rolan Bykov. After her are Fred Alderman, Enoch Powell, Raquel Rastenni, Odette Bancilhon, André Bonin, and Christiane Rochefort.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Dienst ranks 443 out of 1,015. Before her are Pierre Aubert (1927), Constant Fornerod (1819), Vreni Schneider (1964), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Karl Schenk (1823), and Philipp Etter (1891). After her are Arnold Koller (1933), Renée Colliard (1933), Bernhard Hammer (1822), Leon Schlumpf (1925), Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), and Kaspar Villiger (1941).

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Among REFEREES In Switzerland

Among referees born in Switzerland, Gottfried Dienst ranks 1. After her are Massimo Busacca (1969), and Urs Meier (1959).

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