Al-Jassim Chosen to Referee 2020 ACL Final
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Qatari referee Abdulrahman Ibrahim Y J Al-Jassim will take charge of the 2020 AFC Champions League Final.
The final match will be held between Persepolis of Iran and South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai on Saturday at the Al Janoub Stadium.
Al-Jassim will be assisted by his countrymen Ramzan Saeed M A Al-Naemi and Saoud Ahmed S A Almaqaleh.
The trio will be supported by Video Assistant Referee (VAR), Khamis Mohammed S A Al-Marri from Qatar, who will oversee the implementation of the VAR system in the final of an AFC Club Competition for the first time.
Al-Jassim, 33, is a Qatari football referee who has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2013.
He was one of the referees for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea and was appointed to be a Video Assistant Referee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Al-Jassim was also appointed to be a referee at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
