Anders Mattsson

Anders Mattsson (born 21 January 1943 Åland, Finland) was a retired Finnish international football referee.[1]

Career

He officiated 6 international matches and 2 unofficial international matches. He was FIFA referee in 1970-1983. He attributed a match in 1978 World Cup qualifying, four matches in different European Championship qualifying[2] and others were in friendly matches. He gave a red card in 1984 European Championship qualifying match between Germany-Albania to albanian Genc Tomorri in 48th minute because of unsportsmanlike action and also gave four yellow card to different albanian players.[3] He gave totally 12 yellow card to players and appointed a penalty kick. Mattsson was a referee 1982 U21 European Championship, 1980 Olympic Games. He also was referee in 1972 Nordic Football Championship match between Sweden-Denmark 2:0.

He was referee also club football matches such as European Champion Clubs' Cup (4), UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (3) and UEFA-Cup (9). He officiated 108 matches in Veikkausliiga until 1983 and some matches in Ykkönen.

Below his competitive matches that officiated:

Date Match Team1 Score Score Team2 venue
13 Aug. 1975 1976 EC Qualification Norway 1 1 Sweden Oslo
1 May 1977 WC 1978 Qualification Denmark 1 1 Poland Copenhagen
20 Sep 1978 EC 1980 Qualification Netherlands 1 1 Iceland Nijmegen
2 May 1979 EC 1980 Qualification Northern Ireland 5 0 Bulgaria Belfast
20 Nov. 1983 EC 1984 Qualification Germany 2 1 Albania Saarbrücken

After career

After his active career Mattsson was President of the Åland Islands Football Association 1989-2009[4] and UEFA inspector. Mattsson was elected to the Finnish Football Hall of Fame in 2016.[5]

Personal life

Anders Mattsson's son is sports journalist Krille Mattsson.

References and notes

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