List of referees for the World Cup finals which gets underway in Sao Paulo on Thursday:

Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)

Benjamin Williams (Australia)

Alireza Faghani (Iran)

Noumandiez Doue (Ivory Coast)

Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

Neant Alioum (Cameroon)

Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Joel Antonio Chicas (El Salvador)

Mark Geiger (United States)

Marco Antonio Moreno (Mexico)

Roberto Salazar (Panama)

Walter Castellanos (Guatemala)

Enrique Zencovich (Chile)

Nestor Pitana (Argentina)

Wilmar Perez (Colombia)

Sandro Ricci (Brazil)

Carlos Rodriguez (Ecuador)

Victor Casanova (Peru)

Peter O'Leary (New Zealand)

Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

Felix Brych (Germany)

Cüneyt Cakir (Turkey)

Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

Bjorn Kuipers (The Netherlands)

Milorad Mazic (Serbia)

Pedro Proenca (Portugal)

Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Howard Webb (England)

Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)