The referee for the Paris SG vs Arsenal<\/strong> Champions League 2026 final has been announced as 42-year-old German ref Daniel Siebert<\/strong>and somewhat interestingly, English clubs have won all five games refereed by him in the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n Siebert also refereed the Youth League final<\/strong> between PSG and Chelsea 10 years ago (back in 2016<\/strong>)- CFC won that game 2-1.<\/p>\n UCL games involving English clubs in 2025\/26 season with Siebert as referee (5 wins out of 5)<\/strong><\/p>\n Chelsea 1-0 Benfica Arsenal also have a good record under Siebert- 4 wins in 4 games under him, including knockout victories over Sporting Lisbon and Atleti in the current 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n Arsenal games in Europe with Siebert as referee (played 4, won 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n Olympiakos 1-3 Arsenal (2020\/21 Europa League; Round of 16) PSG record in CL with Siebert as referee- C1 games (played 4, won 3, drawn 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n Brugge 0-5 PSG (2019\/20 UCL) Siebert has already refereed PSG once in this 2025-26 C1 campaign, and that was a 0-0 draw against Athletic Bilbao.<\/p>\n Siebert will have fellow Germans Jan Seidel<\/strong> and Rafael Foltyn<\/strong> as his assistant referees, with Bastian Dankert (also German) being the VAR referee for the 2026 Champions League final.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The referee for the Paris SG vs Arsenal Champions League 2026 final has been announced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Newcastle 3-0 PSV
Tottenham 3-2 Atletico Madrid
Sporting 0-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 1-0 Atletico
PSG v Arsenal (UCL final, to be played)<\/p>\n![\"Siebert](\"https:\/\/www.soccer-blogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Siebert-referee.jpg\")
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Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb (2024\/25 UCL; Group Stage)
Sporting 0-1 Arsenal (2025\/26 UCL; Quarter Final)
Arsenal 1-0 Atleti (2025\/26 UCL; Semi Final)<\/p>\n
Maccabi Haifa 1-3 PSG (2022\/23 UCL)
PSG 1-0 Girona (2024\/25 UCL)
Athletic Bilbao 0-0 PSG (2025\/26 UCL)<\/p>\n