The selected match officials represent the highest level of refereeing worldwide, according to Pierluigi Collina, who worked the 2002 World Cup final.
The 36 referees who will work the 64 games at the tournament include two from Rwanda and one from Japan.
The assistant referees are Neuza Back of Brazil, Karen Diaz Medina of Mexico, and Kathryn Nesbitt of the United States.
I would hope that in the future the selection of elite women's match officials for important men's competitions will be perceived as normal and not as sensational.
The referee who blew the final whistle at the African Cup match between Tunisia and Tunisia was Janny Sikazwe, who was from Zambia.
Tunisia refused to restart play about 30 minutes after the match. Tunisia protested the result, but it was later approved by the Confederation of African Football.
The match was played in heat and humidity, and Sikazwe later explained that he became confused in the intense conditions.
He will be working at his second World Cup after handling two group games in Russia.
The tournament was moved to the cooler months in the Gulf state of Qatar because of the heat.
24 men have been selected to work on video reviews. The VAR system made its debut.
50 referee-and-assistant trios began preparing for the World Cup in the middle of the year, with the project affected by limits on international travel during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Argentina, Brazil, England, and France had two referees pick from them.
The officials who weren't allocated into specific teams of three face future technical, physical and medical assessments this year.
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