• Shahil Jain
• Shaleen Bansal
• Saurav Gupta
• Saniya Shah
• Sakshi Agarwal

Football is the most watched sport and a billion-dollar industry. This sport like any other has a lot of inconsistency problems like scheduling, recruitment, optimization, ticketing that can be solved using quantitative techniques. With the increase in the ability to gather information about all kinds of aspects of the sport using computers applying OR is becoming really lucrative for team managers as well as tournament hosts. Our research paper tackles one such problem of referee assignment in the FIFA world cup with the objective of finding a fair referee for every match.

Football, FIFA, Referee Assignment, Algorithms, Hungarian Method

"Operations Research in Refree Assignment in the FIFA World Cup", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.787-791, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N09.pdf

"Operations Research in Refree Assignment in the FIFA World Cup", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp787-791, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N09.pdf