Who is Slavko Vincic, the referee for Dortmund - Atlético today?

Slovenian Vincic, 44, will be the match referee for the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Signal Iduna Park.

Slovenia’s Slavko Vincic will referee today’s Champions League quarter-final second leg between Borussia Dortmund and Atlético Madrid.

Vincic is an experienced Champions League referee, having run the rule over 29 tournament games since his debut in December 2016. The 44-year-old has refereed seven knockout matches in Europe’s top men’s club competition, including Atlético’s 1-0 win at Manchester United in the 2021/22 last 16.

That’s one of four occasions on which Vincic has crossed paths with Los Rojiblancos in the Champions League. Most recently, he was the man in the middle for Atlético’s 1-1 group-stage draw away to Lazio in September. The referee has never previously been assigned to a Champions League game involving Dortmund, but did take charge of the Germans’ 2-1 defeat to RB Salzburg in the Europa League in 2016/17, in first leg of the last 16.

Vincic, who was also a referee at Euro 2020 and World Cup 2022, received the highest-profile appointment of his career so far in the Europa League. In 2022, he oversaw the final of the continent’s second-tier club tournament, as Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Rangers on penalties in Seville.

Atlético take a 2-1 lead into today’s Champions League quarter-final return in Germany, after a first leg in which Diego Simeone’s team initially took control of the tie, racing into a two-goal first-half advantage in Madrid last week. However, the Spaniards let Dortmund back into the last-eight clash after the break at the Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, allowing substitute Sebastian Haller to score for the visitors with 10 minutes remaining. Indeed, Julian Brandt might