Other occupation Teacher 2001-2013 A2 Ligi Years League 2002-2014 TFF Second League | 1997-1998 A2 Ligi Name Hilal Tosun 1998-2014 TFF Third League | |
Born January 1, 1970 (age 54)
Ankara, Turkey ( 1970-01-01 ) | ||
Hilal Tuba Tosun Ayer (born Hilal Tuba Tosun in 1970) is a Turkish retired female association football referee and teacher of physical education by profession. She is a FIFA listed woman referee since 2000.
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Early life
Hilal Tuba Tosun was born 1970 in Ankara, Turkey to a sportspeople family. Her father Nizamettin Tosun is a former police chief and national sport shooter. Her brother is professional basketball player. She studied physical education at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, and became a school teacher.
Sport career
She became interested in football sport through two teacher colleagues of hers. She was encouraged also by her father to attend a referee course. She started her referee career serving as an assistant referee in a TFF Third League match on May 11, 1996. She was promoted to the referee position officiating a match in the same league on November 1, 1998. In later years, she oversaw many football competitions in different higher-level leagues. Since November 23, 2008, she supervises matches in the Turkish Women's First Football League.
In 2000, Tosun Ayer received her FIFA badget to officiate international football matches. On July 16, 2006, she oversaw the group stage match between the women's national teams of Sweden and Denmark in Langenthal, Switzerland. Tosun Ayer officiated the preliminary round match of Norway against France at the 2008 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship played in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France on July 13, 2008. She supervised the match between the national teams from Wales and the Czech Republic at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8 in Llanelli, Wales on 23 September 2009. Another Women's World Cup qualification match she officiated was the game between Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sopron, Croatia on March 31, 2010. She served as referee at the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying round matches for the Group 1 game Greece against Macedonia in Athens, Greece on April 4, 2012 and for the Group 3 game Hungary Bulgaria in Sopron, Croatia on September 19, 2012. She officiated the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7 match between France and Kazakhstan in Angers, France on April 5, 2014.
After officiating a TFF Second League match as the fourth official on May 11, 2014, she ended her 18-year referee career, during which she served in a total of 208 matches.
Family life
She continued her teaching career at the Police Academy in Ankara, where she met her future husband Salih Ayer, who was a footballer in the Academy's team. The couple has a child.