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| Full name | Muhammad Taqi Al-Jaafari bin Jahari | ||
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| Born |
25 October 1986 Singapore | ||
| Domestic | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 2006– | Singapore Premier League | Referee | |
| 2013, 2017, 2019 | Chinese Super League | Referee | |
| 2016, 2018, 2020 | Indian Super League | Referee | |
| International | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 2012– | FIFA listed | Referee | |
Muhammad Taqi Al-Jaafari bin Jahari (born 25 October 1986) is a Singaporean international football referee.[1] He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012,[2] and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches. He has also won the 2014 S.League Referee of the Year and the AFF Referee of the Year in 2017.
Taqi refereed the matches in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. He has also officiated in the 2012, 2014, 2019 Singapore Cup Final, the 2019 Indian Super League Final, the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship, the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship as well in the Chinese Super League and the Indian Super League.
Taqi was selected as a Video Assistant Referee at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup becoming the first Singaporean to officiate at both the men's and women's World Cup tournaments. He also was selected as the assistant VAR referee in the 2020 Olympic football final between Brazil and Spain.
Taqi is the fifth Singaporean referee to officiate at a FIFA World Cup after George Suppiah (1974), Shamsul Maidin (2006), K. Visvanathan (2002) and Jeffrey Goh (2010).
- ^ "WorldReferee.com – referee – Aljafaari Muhammad Taqi – bio".
- ^ "Education & Technical – Referees by Association". FIFA. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007.