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Benjamin Jon Williams (born 14 April 1977), better known as Ben Williams, is an Australian soccer referee. He was also a physical education teacher at Belconnen High School in Hawker, Canberra, now he teaches at Lyneham High School.
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Biography
Williams officiates in the Asian Champions League (ACL), AFC Cup and in the Australian A-League football competition. He has been a FIFA referee since 2005 and AFC Elite panel referee since 2006.
Williams has been selected to referee at the FIFA 2014 World Cup Brazil and is the only Australian referee to be selected.
He was selected to officiate at the 2012 Asian Champions League (ACL) Final in Korea between Ulsan Hyundai and Al Ahli. He has officiated in the AFC Champions League since 2007.
In 2012, he was also selected to officiate 4 matches (2 as referee and 2 as 4th official) at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He officiated in the opening Great Britain match at Old Trafford against Senegal in front of approximately 75,000 spectators.
Williams debuted in the Hyundai A-League in Round 1, 26 August 2005 and is now the most experienced referee in the A-League, refereeing his 100th match, Central Coast Mariners vs Adelaide United at Bluetongue Stadium in March 2012.
On 15 January 2014, FIFA announced that Ben Williams was selected as one of the 25 2014 FIFA World Cup officials. In preparation of the tournament Williams took 6 months off work to ensure he could focus on his training and preparation. He was the first Australian referee appointed as the central referee to a second round game of a World Cup. He was also one of officials in 2015 AFC Asian Cup.
On 22 July 2016, the Football Federation Australia announced that Williams would retire from refereeing after 22 years on the national panels and 12 years as a FIFA referee. Williams, in total, refereed 161 Hyundai A-League matches and 24 NSL matches throughout his career. He also had the honour of refereeing the 2015 Westfield FFA Cup Final as well as international matches through the AFC and FIFA panels, including becoming the first Australian referee to officiate at a knockout match at a FIFA World Cup in 2014. Williams retired as one of Australia’s most highly respected international referees of all time.
A-League Matches
Williams is currently the most experienced A-League referee having refereed 130 matches by the end of the 2013/2014 season.
In this game he gave 3 Red Cards and 7 Yellow Cards, all the cards were for Malaysia, some of the Red Cards was given for protesting referee's decision. The result was 8-man Malaysians being thrashed 3–0 by the Chinese football team at the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
Ben Williams gave an Iranian player a yellow card just before half-time for a second bookable offence but seemingly forgot that it was the player's second yellow card, and then went back to send him off later after some protests by the Iraqi players. This drew criticism from the Iranian side and some former Australasian professional players and pundits.
This was Williams' third PSO in three years after refereeing in 2015 Asian Cup PSO between Iran - Iraq; and in 2014 FIFA World Cup between Costa Rica - Greece.
Honours
2013 AFC Referee of the Year
National Soccer League (NSL) 2002 Assistant Referee of the Year
2008 ACT Sportstar Official of the Year
First Australian to take charge of a second round match at the FIFA World Cup.
