Who are the referees and officials at the Crucible for the 2025 World Snooker Championship?

A cosmopolitan team of 10 referees have been selected to take charge on the grandest stage in snooker between April 19 to May 5, and we list them all here:

Terry Camilleri

Malta's Camilleri has been part of the professional snooker refereeing scene for nearly 25 years since overseeing his debut match between Peter Ebdon and Tony Drago in 2001.

Camilleri has refereed two Triple Crown event finals; the 2013 Masters at the Alexandra Palace in London, and the very memorable 2014 UK Championship title tie between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump, which O'Sullivan won in a deciding frame.

The referee for six professional maximum 147 breaks, Camilleri has been vital to several historic snooker moments. At the Crucible in 2014, he was the referee when Neil Robertson became the first player to compile 100 century breaks within the same top tier season.

A few years later at the 2019 Players Championship final at the Guild Hall in Preston, Camilleri had the best view in the house when O'Sullivan won the title with his 1,000th professional century break - the first cueist in snooker history to achieve the remarkable feat.

Ben Williams

Williams has taken charge of two Triple Crown event finals - the 2021 UK Championship at the Barbican in York, and the 2024 Masters at the Alexandra Palace in London.

The Englishman refereed his first television final at the 2016 World Seniors Snooker Championship, and in the following year, he officiated his first ranking event final at the 2017 Riga Masters in Latvia.

He made his Crucible debut in 2018, and three years later he refereed at the semi-finals stage within the one-table set-up.

Tatiana Woollaston

Having first officiated on the professional snooker circuit in 2010, Belarussian-born but now UK resident Woollaston was described by Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2024 as the best referee in the world.

Woollaston has overseen multiple ranking event finals, and first refereed at the Crucible Theatre in 2020 during the World Championship.

In 2024, Woollaston was one of the referees who took charge of the World Masters of Snooker in Riyadh - the first professional snooker event ever to be held in Saudi Arabia. Later in the same year came her biggest moment to date when she officiated her first Triple Crown final at the UK Championship.

Tatiana is married to professional snooker player Ben, although she does not referee any matches that her husband is involved in.

Rob Spencer

Former policeman Spencer has been a referee on snooker's premier circuit since 2013, and as well as doing his job out in the arena, he plays a big part in work behind the scenes, too.

The Stockport County FC fan refereed within the one-table set-up at the Crucible in 2023 for the semi-final match between Luca Brecel and Si Jiahui. Later in the year he took charge of the UK Championship title decider between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui.

Spencer currently holds the unique record of having refereed the most number of maximum 147 breaks in professional competition with 12.

Jan Verhaas

Verhaas is currently professional snooker's most experienced referee having first officiated on the sport's top tier in 1993.

The highly-respected and familiar 6-foot figure initially got involved with snooker whilst refereeing at a local club near his home in the Netherlands, before being encouraged to do his qualifications and go further up the ranks.

In 2003, Verhaas became the first person from outside of the United Kingdom to referee a World Snooker Championship final. He has gone on to officiate six world finals at the Crucible in total, with his most recent coming in 2017. Verhaas is part of an elite club to have refereed all three Triple Crown event finals on multiple occasions.

During his time on the professional snooker circuit, Verhaas has been with the white gloves for eight maximum 147 breaks - four of which were made by Ronnie O'Sullivan, including one at the Crucible in 2003. Verhaas has refereed 147s in all three Triple Crown events.

At the World Open in 2010, Verhaas successfully encouraged Ronnie O'Sullivan to pot the final black of a 147 after 'The Rocket' was not going to, seemingly in protest of there being no bonus prize on offer for the feat of perfection.

At the 2015 UK Championship final, Verhaas officiated Neil Robertson's 147 - the first 147 to be made in a Triple Crown title match.

Darts fan Verhaas also plays a big role behind the scenes with tournament administration, helping develop up-and-coming referees, and helping gatekeep the sport's official playing rules.

Malgorzata Kanieska

Malgorzata Kanieska made her breakthrough refereeing on snooker's premier circuit at a European Players Tour Championship event in Prague in 2010. The next year, she made her television debut with the white gloves during a tournament in Warsaw, the capital city of her home country Poland.

Kanieska has continued her career rise in subsequent years. In 2023, she was nominated to referee the Tour Championship final - the most elite of all three Players Series events - in Hull between Shaun Murphy and Kyren Wilson.

So far, Kanieska has refereed four professional maximum 147 breaks, and she played a big role at the Barbican Centre in York for the televised stages of the 2024 UK Championship where she led the thrilling semi-final between Mark Allen and Barry Hawkins.

In 2025, she will referee on the Crucible stage for the first time.

Leo Scullion

Scotland's Scullion is one of the most experienced referees on the World Snooker Tour having been qualified with the white gloves since the 1990s.

Former taxi driver and policeman Scullion has nearly 25 years of television refereeing experience. He has been in charge of a plethora of big finals on the circuit and officiated the sport's biggest fixture of all in 2019 at the Crucible when Judd Trump defeated John Higgins 18-9 in a record-breaking World Championship final that featured 11 century breaks.

Olivier Marteel

Belgium's Olivier Marteel is a qualified nurse away from the green baize, and was working on the frontline at home during the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Nicknamed in the past as 'The Belgian Truffle', Marteel took charge of his first professional match in 2006.

In 2014 at the Crucible Theatre, Marteel refereed within the fabled one-table set-up for the first time, and the following year he officiated his first World Championship final. Seven years on in 2022, he donned the white gloves again for snooker’s biggest fixture, overseeing Ronnie O'Sullivan's record-equalling seventh Crucible crown triumph.

Standard Liege football fan Marteel has refereed all three Triple Crown finals multiple times, joining fellow European counterpart Verhaas in that exclusive club. Earlier this season, Marteel was responsible for the first Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters final that Judd Trump memorably won on a deciding frame black ball to collect the £500,000 top prize.

Now in his 20th season on the professional tour, Marteel - who himself has a highest break of 133 in practice - has refereed three 147 breaks in official competition.

Marcel Eckardt

From Germany, Eckardt has been a referee at the highest level for over a decade now, and in that time has broken several records.

As a 23-year-old, Eckardt was the youngest person to be selected as part of the elite team of referees on tour. On home soil in 2015, he became the youngest referee to officiate a ranking final at the German Masters in Berlin, and a few months later he made his debut on the Crucible stage.

In 2020, as a 30-year-old, Eckardt was the youngest referee ever to take charge of a World Championship final when Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Kyren Wilson 18-8 for his sixth Crucible crown.

Desislava Bozhilova

It has been an incredible rise up the ranks for Bozhilova, from passing her international referring exams in 2012 to becoming only the second woman ever to officiate one of professional snooker's Triple Crown event finals. She has been selected to referee the 2025 World Snooker Championship final at the Crucible.

From Sliven in Bulgaria, Bozhilova played cuesports and became interested in snooker refereeing after watching on television. She made her debut as a referee on the World Snooker Tour on home soil at the 2012 Bulgarian Open, and just four years later she took charge of her first ranking event final at the 2016 Riga Masters.

Bozhilova - who has a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture - has officiated a plethora of big finals on the professional circuit, including the memorable 2019 Champion of Champions title decider between Judd Trump and Neil Robertson.

In 2019, Bozhilova was selected to referee at the Crucible Theatre for the main venue rounds of the World Championship for the first time. She has returned to snooker’s grandest stage several times since.

2022 was a huge year for Bozhilova as she refereed both the Masters and UK Championship finals - two of the three biggest events in snooker - following in the footsteps of Michaela Tabb who was the first woman to officiate at a Triple Crown final.

Bozhilova has overseen six maximum 147 breaks; two of these came at the 2024 Masters at the Alexandra Palace. She also occasionally referees 9-ball pool on the World Nineball Tour.