French football referee
Benoît Millot (born 10 January 1982) is a French football referee who officiates in Ligue 1. He has been a FIFA referee since 2014, and is ranked as a UEFA second category referee.[1]
Refereeing career
Millot began officiating in Ligue 2 in 2010, before being promoted to Ligue 1 the following year. He officiated his first Ligue 1 match on 13 August 2011 between Sochaux and Caen.[2] In 2014, he was put on the FIFA referees list. He officiated his first senior international match on 25 May 2014 between Mali and Guinea.[3] His first UEFA club competition match as referee was on 24 July 2014, a meeting between Slovenian club Koper and Azerbaijani club Neftçi in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.[4]
In September 2018, Millot officiated a match in the 2018–19 Swiss Super League between St. Gallen and Grasshopper.[5] Millot was also selected to officiate the 2019 Coupe de la Ligue Final between Strasbourg and Guingamp.[6]
Millot was selected as an additional assistant referee for matches at the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Poland,[7] including the final between Germany and Spain.[8] In 2019, Millot was selected as a video assistant referee at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.[9] Later that year, he served as a video assistant referee at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, including in the final between Senegal and Algeria,[10] and the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar.[11] On 23 April 2021, he was selected by FIFA as a video assistant referee for the football tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.[12][13]
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