Donatas Rumsas will have compatriots Aleksandr Radius and Dovydas Suziedelis as assistants. VAR will be handled by Lithuanian Robertas Valikonis.
Lithuanian referee Donatas Rumsas will officiate the meeting between Portugal and Poland, in the fifth and penultimate round of Group A1 of the Nations League, on Friday, in Porto, UEFA revealed today.
The ‘judge’, aged 35, has been international since 2016 and will officiate for the first time a game for the main ‘quinas’ team.
Donatas will have compatriots Aleksandr Radius and Dovydas Suziedelis as assistants, with VAR being handled by fellow Lithuanian Robertas Valikonis.
The team led by Roberto Martínez welcomes Poland on Friday, at Estádio do Dragão (7:45 pm), in Porto, and visits Croatia in Split, on November 18 (7:45 pm Lisbon), when just one point is enough to guarantee qualifying for the quarter-finals.
Portugal leads Group A1, with 10 points, three more than Croatia (seven), with both teams followed by Poland, with four, and Scotland, with one.
The top two teams from each of the four groups in League A of the fourth edition of the competition will advance to the quarter-finals.
Portugal won the first edition of the Nations League in 2019, beating the Netherlands 1-0 in the final, at Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, thanks to a goal from Gonçalo Guedes, and reached the group stage of League A in 2020/21 and 2022/23.
