Maryna Striletska
Born (1983-08-22) 22 August 1983 (age 40)
Lugansk, Ukrainian SSR
(now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Domestic
Years League Role
2012–2016 Ukrainian Second League Assistant
2016–2022 Ukrainian First League Assistant referee
2022– Swiss Promotion League Assistant
International
Years League Role
?– FIFA listed Assistant

Maryna Striletska (also transliterated Marina Streletskaya, Ukrainian: Марина Стрілецька, born 22 August 1983) is a Ukrainian association football referee. In 2020, she was part of the first all-women officiating team for a men's international match. Since 2022, she officiates in the Swiss Promotion League.

Career

As a teenager, Striletska competed in athletics as well as football.[1] In 2006, she started officiating in Ukraine;[1] as of 2011, she was the only female referee in the Luhansk region.[2] Striletska has worked as an international assistant referee under main official Kateryna Monzul, and has officiated at the FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Championship, UEFA Women's Champions League and Olympic Games.[1] She has also officiated in men's matches in the UEFA Europa League,[1] UEFA Europa Conference League and the Ukrainian Premier League.[3]

Striletska was an assistant referee for the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[4] She was an assistant referee for one of the semi-finals of UEFA Women's Euro 2017.[5] She was the reserve assistant referee for the 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[6] At the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, she was a video assistant referee for the group stage match between Brazil and Jamaica.[7] She was the reserve assistant referee for the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[8]

In 2020, Monzul, Striletska and Anastasia Romanyuk became the first all-women officiating team for a men's international match when they refereed a match between San Marino and Gibraltar.[9] In December 2020, Monzul, Striletska and Oleksandra Ardasheva became the first all-women's officiating team in a men's UEFA match when they took charge of a UEFA Europa League match between K.A.A. Gent and FC Slovan Liberec.[10] In 2021, she was an assistant referee in the 2020 Summer Olympics women's semi-final match between the United States and Canada.[11] Later in 2021, Striletska was an assistant referee for the men's match between England and Andorra, alongside Monzul and Svitlana Grushko.[12] It was the first time that a woman had officiated an England men's international match.[1][13]

In March 2022, she started officiating in the Swiss Promotion League.[9] In May 2022, she officiated a charity match between FC Basel and FC Dynamo Kyiv.[14] Later in the year, she was chosen as an official for UEFA Women's Euro 2022;[1][13] she was later an assistant referee for the tournament's final.[15]

Striletska was chosen as an assistant referee for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[16]

Personal life

Striletska is from Luhansk, Ukraine SSR (now Ukraine).[1] Her paternal family are from Siberia, Russia.[17] Her husband Sergei Streletsky is also a referee. In 2011, Striletska gave birth to a daughter.[2] After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Striletska fled to Switzerland,[1] as her sister was working as an author in Basel.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Euro 2022: Ukrainian referee Maryna Striletska hoping to forget about war". BBC Sport. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b "АЖФЛО: Маме – подарок, детям – турнир" [Mom – a gift, children – a tournament]. WFC Donchanka. 10 May 2011. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Ukrainian referee who oversaw England match details horrific experiences as bombs drop". The Daily Mirror. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Українки розсудять фінал Ліги чемпіонів" [Ukrainians will decide the final of the Champions League]. ProSport (in Ukrainian). 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Арбітр Монзуль отримала призначення на півфінал ЧЄ із жіночого футболу" [Referee Monzul appointed to the semifinals of the European Women's Football Championship]. UNN (in Ukrainian). 1 August 2017. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Adámková to referee Women's Champions League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Арбітри Монзуль і Стрілецька відпрацювали на матчі ЧС з футболу серед жінок" [Referees Monzul and Streletskaya officiated at a Women's World Cup match]. Ukrinform (in Ukrainian). 10 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Referee team appointed for UEFA Women's Champions League final in San Sebastián". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Una asistente ucraniana debuta este domingo en la liga suiza de fútbol" [A Ukrainian assistant debuts this Sunday in the Swiss football league]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 27 March 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Ferrieri Caputi Makes History As First Female Referee In Italy's Serie A". Forbes.com. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Монзуль та Стрілецька розсудять півфінал жіночої Олімпіади-2020" [Monzul and Streletskaya will decide the semifinals of the 2020 Women's Olympics] (in Ukrainian). UA Football. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Andorra vs England: All-female officiating team named for Saturday's World Cup Qualifier". Sky Sports. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  13. ^ a b ""It's like a family" – Referee Maryna Striletska fled Ukraine to officiate in UEFA Women's Euros 2022, as history maker says it'll help her "forget about the war"". Talksport. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  14. ^ a b "Ukrainische Schiedsrichter-Assistentin: "Ich hoffe, ich muss nicht weinen"" (in German). Bajour. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  15. ^ "Kateryna Monzul's unique journey to Women's Euro". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  16. ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup: All you need to know about the referees at the tournament". Stuff. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  17. ^ "Марина Стрелецкая: "Россияне должны почувствовать нашу боль и понять, что они изгои"" [Marina Streletskaya: "Russians must feel our pain and understand that they are outcasts"] (in Ukrainian). Dynamo Kyiv. 12 April 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

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