Referee appointments have been announced for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League play-off match between Qarabag and Newcastle, which will take place in Baku.

Offsideplus.az reports that a Norwegian team of officials will manage the game at the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium. The head referee will be Espen Eskos, assisted by his compatriots Jan Erik Engan and Isaak Elias Bashevkin. The role of the fourth official will be performed by Sigurd Kringstad.

Rob Dieperink and Dennis Higler from the Netherlands will serve as the Video Assistant Referees (VAR). The referee observer will be Matteo Simone Trefoloni from Italy, and the UEFA delegate will be Ignas Marcinkevicius from Lithuania.

As a reminder, the match is scheduled to kick off on February 18 at 21:45.