Antonio Mateu Lahoz

Also known as: Mateu Lahoz · Lahoz

Jurisdiction: Spain

Mateu Lahoz provided witness information or testimony in the Negreira investigation and later refereed the 2022 Netherlands–Argentina quarter-final. He was not accused, investigated or charged in the Negreira matter, and the sources reviewed by this publication identify no Negreira-linked payment to him. The two records establish no connection between those facts.

Roles

  • Referee, La Liga (under the Negreira-era CTA)
  • Referee, Netherlands v Argentina 2022 World Cup quarter-final — from 2022-12-09 to 2022-12-09

Legal and procedural status

Legal status: Witness · Spain · 2024-01

Provided witness information or testimony in the Negreira investigation. The reviewed record does not identify him as accused, investigated or charged, or identify a Negreira-linked payment to him. He received no further appointment after the Argentina–Netherlands quarter-final; no official FIFA source reviewed confirms a disciplinary removal (§26.2).

Timeline appearances

  1. 2022-12-09Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    The "Battle of Lusail" quarter-final — corrected goal minutes, the penalty, disciplinary incidents and the official card ledger

    Role at the time: Referee, La Liga (under the Negreira-era CTA)

  2. 2022-12-09Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    Dumfries foul on Acuña / awarded penalty

    Role at the time: Referee, La Liga (under the Negreira-era CTA)

  3. 2024-01Negreira & refereeingClassification: Credible reported allegation
    Mateu Lahoz testifies as witness about CTA information flow

    Role at the time: Referee, La Liga (under the Negreira-era CTA)

Claims

Relationships

Sources

Independent sources:
1
Total references:
2

Established wire or investigative reporting

Mateu Lahoz declaró que el hijo de Negreira pasaba información confidencial del CTA al Barcelona

El Español · 2024-01-14

RetrievedLanguage: esIndependent source
Enríquez Romero ha tenido una cartera de árbitros muy importante, seguramente captados como clientes individuales durante las concentraciones arbitrales
TranslationEnríquez Romero has had a very significant portfolio of referees, probably recruited as individual clients during refereeing camps[Claude translation]

Supports

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  • b9c59362-5833-5a58-b955-abe9426fb653

Reproduces Lahoz's witness testimony to the Guardia Civil.

Official match report

FIFA Full-Time Match Report (Version 2) — Netherlands v Argentina, 2022 FIFA World Cup quarter-final

FIFA · 2022-12-12

RetrievedLanguage: enNot marked independent

One of three documents claiming FIFA official sourcing for the Lusail caution ledger. Phase 8 Annex B, C-01 records that the three ledgers are incompatible; the conflict is unresolved and is carried as a separate Conflict record rather than merged.

Explicit limitations

  • Whether FIFA formally removed Lahoz for disciplinary reasons — no official FIFA source located; "sent home" traces to COPE/Tiempo de Juego (Spanish radio), relayed by CBS Sports, WION and others.
  • Whether FIFA's Art. 12/16 proceedings v AFA and Art. 12 v KNVB produced any published final fine — no publicly available record of a final decision was located this session.
  • EDITORIAL HOLD: the itemised Lusail card ledger is deliberately NOT reproduced in this record. Phase 8 Annex B, C-01 establishes that three documents claiming FIFA official sourcing produce three incompatible caution lists (differing on Lisandro Martínez, Otamendi, Cody Gakpo and Van Dijk's second yellow, and on six minute values). The conflict is unresolved and is carried as a separate Conflict record, not merged here.
  • Safe formulation on the card record: the match set a World Cup caution record, surpassing the 16 in Portugal v Netherlands (2006 R16); the widely reported "18 yellow cards and one red" is a media/GWR-reported tally, not a FIFA-stated reconciled figure. FIFA published no single reconciled total.
  • Official report does not narrate VAR-check detail; no OFR indicated.
  • Exact declaration date (variously Jan/July 2024).