Overview
- UEFA, which named the crew Monday, selected the 42-year-old Berlin referee for his first Champions League final on May 30 in Budapest.
- His touchline team features assistants Jan Seidel and Rafael Foltyn, fourth official Sandro Schärer, reserve official Guadalupe Porras Ayuso, and VARs Bastian Dankert and Robert Schröder.
- Siebert has worked in Germany’s Bundesliga since 2012, joined FIFA’s list in 2015, and has officiated about 201 top-flight matches since starting in 1998.
- He oversaw Arsenal’s quarter-final first leg against Sporting and the semi-final second leg against Atlético this season, and he has refereed PSG four times in recent years.
- In those PSG matches he averaged more than four yellow cards with no expulsions or penalties, and this Champions League season he showed one red card across nine games.