Doğan_Babacan

Doğan Babacan

Doğan Babacan

Turkish football referee (1929–2018)

Doğan Babacan (30 November 1929 – 18 May 2018) was a Turkish football referee. He was the first Turkish referee to supervise a match in FIFA World Cup history.[1]

Babacan in 1971

Babacan was born in Istanbul. He played football for Beşiktaş JK, Karşıyaka S.K., Kasımpaşa S.K. and Hacettepe. His career as a referee began in 1955 and he was placed on FIFA's Referees List in 1968. He is known for supervising the first round Group 1 match between West Germany and Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.[2] In that match, Babacan sent off Chilean Carlos Caszely. It was the first red card in World Cup history. On 10 April 1974 he sent off three Atlético Madrid players in the first leg of the European Cup semi-final match against Celtic in Glasgow.[3][4]

Later he was referee for the 1975 UEFA Super Cup final between FC Bayern Munich and FC Dynamo Kyiv. He retired from international refereeing in 1978.

He died on 18 May 2018, aged 88.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Doğan Babacan kimdir? Kaş yaşında ve neden öldü? (in Turkish)
  2. [2]
    FIFA match report Archived November 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Bloody Farce". Daily Mirror. 11 April 1974. p. 40.
  4. [4]
    "1974 bir baska dunyanin kupasi" [Another World Cup in 1974] (in Turkish). Retrieved 6 September 2017. 'The West Germany-Chile match in Berlin will be managed by ... Doğan Babacan
  5. [5]
    "Dünya Kupası'nda görev alan ilk Türk hakem olan Doğan Babacan hayatını kaybetti - Son Dakika Spor Haberleri". Star.com.tr (in Turkish). 18 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.


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