Chris Kavanagh to ref Preston game
last updated Thursday 25th November 2021, 8:10 PM
Match Referee News
Preston North End vrs Fulham
Championship Match Day 20 2122 at Deepdale
Saturday 27th November 2021 KO: 12:30
Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire)
Live on Sky Sport
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Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire)
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Referee Chris Kavanagh started refereeing in 1998 at the age of 13 years old. At age 29 years he was promoted to referee in the Blue Square Conference in season 2012-13 and then in the Football League in the 2014/2015 season.
In the summer of 2016 he was promoted to the Select Group 2 and is employed on a full time basis. Mr Kavanagh then became a Select Group 1 referee for the 2017/18 season.
The last time Ref Kavanagh bossed a Fulham game was in May 2021 when we lost 2-0 at home to Newcastle in our last Premiership game in season 2020/2021 and he booked one player Fulham's Kenny Tete.
Mr Kavanagh previous game with Fulham was in September 2020 when we lost 3-0 at home to Arsenal in our first game back in the Premier League. He booked four players including Michael Hector (26,f) and Tom Cairney (61,f).
It was over a year previous to that Mr Kavanagh bossed a Fulham game in the home Premier League win against Cardiff in April 2019, which we won with a Ryan Babel goal in the 79th minute.
That was Mr Kavanagh's only meeting with Fulham that season but he was the ref for the second leg of the 2017/18 season's Play Off Semi-Final 2-0 home win against Derby. He booked six players four of them from Fulham, Stefan Johansen (62,f), Aboubakar Kamara (74,sim), Kevin McDonald (78,tw), Marcus Bettinelli (90+4,tw).
Prior to the Derby game Mr Kavanagh refed one other Fulham game in that season the 2-2 draw with QPR in March 2018. He booked Matt Targett (86,f), Aleksandar Mitrovic (90+3,arg) and three QPR players.
Mr Kavanagh last refed Preston North End back in January 2017 when they drew 2-2 at home to Sunderland. He booked one player from each team.
Last season he refed 33 games and dished out 121 yellows and 4 red, so an average 3.7 yellows per game.
His busiest game in recent time was the Everton v Tottenham game on 7th November 2021, a couple of weeks ago. Mr Kavanagh booked 4 Tottenham players and 2 Everton, he also sent off one Everton player in the 90th minute.
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