{"id":6802,"date":"2026-01-26T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/benoit-bastien-will-referee-barcelona-copenhagen-champions-league-match_315845_102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:35:00","slug":"benoit-bastien-will-referee-barcelona-copenhagen-champions-league-match_315845_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/champions-league\/benoit-bastien-will-referee-barcelona-copenhagen-champions-league-match_315845_102.html","title":{"rendered":"UEFA appoints Benoit Bastien as referee for Bar\u00e7a-Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frenchman Benoit Bastien will be the referee for the Champions League Matchday 8 game between Bar\u00e7a and Copenhagen. Bram Van Driessche will be in charge of VAR at the Spotify Camp Nou<\/h2>  \r\n<div class=\"article-addons\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/calendar-fc-barcelona.html\"\r\n       target=\"_self\"\r\n       title=\"Calendar of FC Barcelona\"\r\n       class=\"blue-gredient-btn\">\r\n       \r\n        Calendar of FC Barcelona    <\/a>\r\n<\/div>   <p><strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong> returns to action this Wednesday in the <strong>UEFA Champions League 2025\/26<\/strong>, hosting <strong>FC Copenhagen (9:00 PM)<\/strong> for the eighth and final matchday of the league phase. The game, to be played at Spotify Camp Nou, will have Frenchman <strong>Benoit Bastien<\/strong> as the main referee, who only has one previous European encounter with Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>  <p>This season, the 42-year-old referee, a UEFA professional since 2009, officiated two Champions League group stage matches, with <strong>a high tally of bookings (10) and penalties awarded (4)<\/strong>. The Frenchman officiated Galatasaray&#8217;s victory on Ajax&#8217;s ground (0-3) and Tottenham&#8217;s win in London against Slavia Prague (3-0).<\/p>  <p>In both matches, Bastien awarded two penalties in favor of the teams that ended up winning. In addition, he has officiated ten matchdays in <strong>Ligue 1<\/strong> and another pair of matches in the qualifying rounds of the <strong>Champions and Europa League<\/strong>, the latter tournament where he refereed Bar\u00e7a for the only time.<\/p>  <h2>Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s only precedent with Benoit Bastien as referee<\/h2>  <p>Benoit Bastien was the main figure in the 0-0 draw between <a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/europa-league\/the-barca-crashes-against-the-galatasaray-0-0-and-will-play-it-to-him-in-turkey_278445_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/europa-league\/cronica-fc-barcelona-galatasaray-0-0-europa-league-2021-2022_278445_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/europa-league\/the-barca-crashes-against-the-galatasaray-0-0-and-will-play-it-to-him-in-turkey_278445_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"El Bar\u00e7a se 'estrella' contra el Galatasaray (0-0) y se la jugar\u00e1 en Turqu\u00eda\">Barcelona and Galatasaray (0-0)<\/a> played on March 10, 2022, at Camp Nou. The match was the first leg of the Europa League round of 16 and ended with a couple of yellow cards per side and a goalless draw. In the second leg in Turkey, the Blaugrana team won by the narrowest of margins (<a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/europa-league\/chronicle-galatasaray-fc-barcelona-1-2-europa-league-2021-2022_278623_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/europa-league\/cronica-galatasaray-fc-barcelona-1-2-europa-league-2021-2022_278623_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/europa-league\/chronicle-galatasaray-fc-barcelona-1-2-europa-league-2021-2022_278623_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\u00a1A CUARTOS! El Bar\u00e7a tira de car\u00e1cter y remonta ante el Galatasaray (1-2)\">1-2<\/a>) with goals from Pedri and Aubameyang.<\/p>  <p>In the case of Copenhagen, the Danes only played a couple of matches in Europe officiated by the French referee. The record is one draw and one loss for the &#8216;white and blue&#8217; team, which notably occurred on Spanish soil (<strong>3-0 against Sevilla<\/strong>), in the group stage of the 22\/23 Champions League.<\/p>  <p>Facing the duel against Copenhagen, Bar\u00e7a will not be able to count on **Frenkie de Jong** due to suspension. The Dutchman received his third yellow card in the match against Slavia Prague (2-4), where **Lamine Yamal** also served a suspension for accumulating cards<\/p>  <h2>Barcelona must win convincingly to secure direct qualification for the round of 16<\/h2>  <p>On the eighth matchday of the league stage, the team managed by <strong>Hansi Flick<\/strong> knows that a victory with a two-goal advantage or more can secure their direct qualification for the round of 16. <a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/champions-league\/champions-league-standings-25-26-after-barcelona-victory-in-prague_315816_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/champions-league\/clasificacion-champions-25-26-victoria-barcelona-praga_315816_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/champions-league\/champions-league-standings-25-26-after-barcelona-victory-in-prague_315816_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Clasificaci\u00f3n de la Champions 25\/26 tras la victoria del Bar\u00e7a en Praga\">The Blaugrana team is in 9th place<\/a> with 13 points, but the clash between <strong>PSG<\/strong> (6th) and <strong>Newcastle<\/strong> (7th) in Paris will free up at least one spot within the TOP-8<\/p>  <p><strong>Chelsea<\/strong> (8th), furthermore, visits Naples on the final matchday, while the other four clubs below Bar\u00e7a that also have 13 points currently have a worse goal difference than the Catalans (+5). Hence the importance of winning by a comfortable margin to secure a spot among the top eight and, with it, direct passage to the round of 16.<\/p>  <p>The teams ranked between 9th and 24th will play a playoff in February to determine the remaining eight qualifiers for the next stage. Barcelona, <strong>should they thrash Copenhagen by a wide margin, could even finish third<\/strong>, provided teams like Real Madrid (3rd), Liverpool (4th), and Tottenham (5th) do not win on the day, and there is a draw between PSG and Newcastle.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchman Benoit Bastien will be the referee for the Champions League Matchday 8 game between Bar\u00e7a and Copenhagen. Bram Van Driessche will be in charge of VAR at the Spotify Camp Nou FC Barcelona returns to action this Wednesday in the UEFA Champions League 2025\/26, hosting FC Copenhagen (9:00 PM) for the eighth and final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":6803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_nextfly_llmd_date_locked":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,112],"tags":[190,54,194],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league-2","category-champions-league","tag-referees","tag-uefa","tag-var"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benoit Bastien will referee Barcelona-Copenhagen Champions League match<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Frenchman Benoit Bastien will be the referee for the Champions League Matchday 8 game between Bar\u00e7a and Copenhagen. 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