Former Premier League referee Anthony Taylor has been appointed chairman of the Turkish Soccer Federation’s Central Referee Board.
The TFF showed the inside track on Tuesday, following the hiring of former Besiktas supervisor Sergen Yalcin as nationwide workforce supervisor.
Taylor retired remaining month after a 22-year occupation spanning 831 fits. The 47-year-old’s ultimate refereeing project was once the round-of-16 affair between Portugal and Spain on the 2026 FIFA Global Cup.
Taylor, 48, joined the TFF as Elite Referee Director all over the summer season, in a while after saying his retirement from refereeing. As chairman of the Central Referee Board, the Englishman will prevail Ferhat Gundogdu, who was once arrested, along with the vice-chairman and five others, for fraud in refereeing checks, intimidation, and the manipulation of referee appointments.
Turkish soccer has been embroiled in a large-scale having a bet and match-fixing scandal since overdue 2025, when 149 officers have been suspended. Since then, over 1,000 footballers had been suspended, 17 high-ranking membership officers had been arrested, and 448 membership officers had been referred to the federation’s disciplinary committee for putting bets while in administrative center.