{"id":3756,"date":"2026-04-28T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:08:44","slug":"bayern-munich-who-is-sandro-scharer-the-referee-of-the-champions-league-semi-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich: Who is Sandro Sch\u00e4rer, the referee of the Champions League semi-final first leg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Tuesday evening, the Champions League semi-final first leg between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich promises to be a real final before its time. For this meeting at the summit of European football, UEFA has appointed a referee that the French know well. This is Sandro Sch\u00e4rer, a 37-year-old Swiss-German with solid experience on the European scene. However, this will be his first match in the last four of C1. <\/p>\n<p>It was he who officiated during PSG&#8217;s victory against Atalanta this season in the single group stage (4-0 victory for the French). In 2021\/22, Sandro Sh\u00e4rer refereed the match between Brugge and PSG (1-1), still in the same competition. Last year, he was on the whistle for Bayern-Inter (1-2) and in 2020\/21, he refereed Bayern-Lokomotiv Moscow 2-0 (20\/21).<\/p>\n<h2>Strongly criticized by Olivier L\u00e9tang<\/h2>\n<p>Last season, during the Champions League round of 16 second leg between Lille and Borussia Dortmund, President Olivier L\u00e9tang, president of LOSC, deplored a \u201clack of impartiality\u201d because the referee spoke in German with the BVB players. In the Europa League, he also made controversial decisions with French clubs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper u-hidden\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-lang=\"fr_FR\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Sandro Sch\u00e4rer \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded will be on the whistle for PSG\/Bayern Munich at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday evening at 9 p.m.! \ud83d\udc68\u200d\u2696\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Assessment on the PSG side:<\/p>\n<p>-Bruges\/PSG 1-1 (21\/22) \ud83d\udff0<br \/>-PSG\/Atalanta 4-0 (25\/26) \u2705<\/p>\n<p>Balance sheet for Bayern:<\/p>\n<p>-Bayern\/Lokomotiv Moscou 2-0 (20\/21) \u2705<br \/>-Bayern\/Inter Milan 1-2 (24\/25) \u274c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlL1VVdUaq\">pic.twitter.com\/xlL1VVdUaq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MEGA PSG \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@MegaPSG_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MegaPSG_\/status\/2048319021905277158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was also on the whistle during the Blues&#8217; defeat against Italy in the Nations League (1-3) in September 2024. In three matches refereed in the Champions League this season, he sent 11 yellow cards, including 7 during Sporting Portugal-Bodo Glimt (3.67 average).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday evening, the Champions League semi-final first leg between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich promises to be a real final before its time. For this meeting at the summit of European football, UEFA has appointed a referee that the French know well. This is Sandro Sch\u00e4rer, a 37-year-old Swiss-German with solid experience on the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}