Match Officials

Yeovil Town head to the Shay Stadium this Saturday Lunchtime to face Halifax Town.

Ben Toner is our referee for the game.

This is Toner’s first National League match of the season, not least because he’s been too busy with the big boys in the EFL, five League One and five League Two games under his belt so far.

Those ten games have seen a total of 49 (!) yellow cards shown, four reds and two penalties given.

That includes a total of 11 cards, 10 of which were Yellow when he looked after Barnet vs York in midweek.

A vastly experienced official, Transfermarkt suggests this will match number 458 of his career in the middle. Five of those have been Halifax games, five of them have been Yeovil games.

Of the handful of games he’s taken charge of for the Glovers, the most recent was way back in 2019, a 1-0 home defeat to Crawley, where he booked Daniel Ojo, Sessi D’almeida, Tom James and Gary Warren.

We’ve only one one of those five games, ironically also against Crawley, that game was back in 2015!

The most memorable (or should that be least memorable) was a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Carlisle United in November 2017, it was cold, wet and Bevis Mugabi got sent off, grim.

Ben will be assisted by Tyler Dutton and Mark Bates, Adam Nichol is the fourth official.

FC Halifax Town (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)        Live on DAZN
National League – Premier
Referee: Toner, Ben
Assistant Referee: Dutton, Tyler
Assistant Referee: Bates, Mark
Fourth Official: Nichol, Adam

Yeovil Town welcome Altrincham to Huish Park this Saturday and we need a referee for the game, step forward Mr Ben Atkinson.

This is Ben’s first time refereeing at the home of football, actually it’s his first time looking after a Yeovil game in any capacity. But he has taken charge of one Alty game, a 1-0 home defeat to Gateshead back in 2023 – Matt Gould amongst the Altrincham squad on that day.

He’s been in the middle eight times this season, three of those coming in League Two, he’t not afraid to look to his pocket either. Those three games have seen 14 yellows.

In total his eight games this term have seen 28 yellows, 2 reds and 2 penalties.

Andrew Hickman and Ryan Saward are the assistants, Phillip Eddie is the fourth official – he was also fourth official on Tuesday night for the FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Replay.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Altrincham FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Atkinson, Ben
Assistant Referee: Hickman, Andrew
Assistant Referee: Saward, Ryan
Fourth Official: Eddie, Phillip

Owen Dean might not be the only Yeovil Town debut this week as we welcome a brand new official to Glovers games.

Callum Jones has never been the man in the middle for a Yeovil fixture. At least, not until 3pm on Saturday.

He has been an assistant, but even then just one time – away at Altrincham in 2022.

Oddly, his only match as referee for Wealdstone was… away at Altrincham in February. Funny how these things work out.

The Stones lost that game, 1-0 with two home players going into the book.

His record this season reads eight games across National League, National League Cup and Premier League 2, 23 yellows, zero reds and just the one penalty awarded.

He’s a very highly thought of official having been given Play-off responsibilities last season in the National League North as well as Premier League U21 International Cup games which included the likes of Brossuia Dortmund’s youth squads.

He’ll be assisted by Harley Hetherington, Ciaran Filder and Brandon Scaife will be looking after the dug outs.

Wealdstone FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Jones, Callum
Assistant Referee: Hetherington, Harley
Assistant Referee: Fidler, Ciaran
Fourth Official: Scaife, Brandon

Rob Massey-Ellis will be the man who takes charge of the Glovers’ home game this Saturday against Boston United.

He’s certainly one of the busier officials, this is already his 9th match as the senior official, of the previous eight, only one has come in the National League, a 3-0 Sutton United win over Woking.

In eight games, he’s dished out 31 yellows, three reds and two penalties – both of which came in the same Premier League 2 game.

Incredibly, his Transfermarkt records have this as the 313th match of his refereeing career.

Seven times he’s refereed Yeovil games – the Glovers have won NONE of those.

But, we’ve only lost one! Yes, we’ve drawn six of the seven games looked after by Mr Massey-Ellis.

Most recently, he took charge of the 0-0 draw with Halifax at the back end of last season, Harvey Greenslade saw yellow that day.

He will be assisted by Samuel Fudge and Mark Senior with Steven Swan on fourth official duties.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Boston United FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Massey-Ellis, Robert
Assistant Referee: Fudge, Samuel
Assistant Referee: Senior, Mark
Fourth Official: Swan, Steven

Aggborough is the venue of choice for Yeovil fans this coming weekend, as the Glovers head to face the best home record in the league.

Oliver Mackey is the man in the middle for this one. We last saw Mr Mackey in the March home win over Tamworth. Goals from Ryan Jones and Declan Skura was enough to claim the points.

Aaron Jarvis and James Daly both saw yellow that day.

Go back a bit further and he has the dubious honour of sending off two Yeovil players in the same game – Finn Cousin-Dawson and Dom Bernard both saw the red of Mr Mackey in a 4-0 away defeat to York.

This season, he’s taken charge of five games, two in the EFL Cup, then one each in Leagues One, Two and the National League.

He’s dished out 21 yellows, two red cards and one penalty kick has been awarded – both of those reds came in the same game, a feisty affair between Salford and Shrewsbury in the league.

He will be assisted by Dan Robinson and Peter Dingle with another Oliver, Noonan on fourth official duty.

Kidderminster Harriers FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Mackey, Oliver
Assistant Referee: Robinson, Daniel
Assistant Referee: Dingle, Peter
Fourth Official: Noonan, Oliver

Paul Marsden will take charge of Yeovil Town’s home game against AFC Fylde. This is his third National League game of the season, he’s averaging SIX yellow cards across the previous two.

He has taken charge of three previous Yeovil games, but not since a 1-0 defeat to Oldham back in 2024.

He sent off manager Mark Cooper that day, a red card that was rescinded by the FA after the official’s accusations were found to be not proven.

After the match the first of Dave’s five conclusions said this;

“Let’s just scrap Rule 1: I’m going to get the obvious point out of the way straight off, referee Paul Marsden had a stinker…”

Eek.

He’s only been to Huish Park once too, a 2-0 home win over Altrincham in the 2021/22 season.

His season stats for the 2025/26 season in the National League was 11 games, 35 yellows and just the one red card, a double booking for Gateshead’s Fenton John.

He awarded three penalties.

Mr Marsden’s asssitants are Scott Chalkley and Kevin Morris whilst Dean Trevealen will be hoping to have a quieter afternoon than the fourth did during that Oldham game!

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v AFC Fylde (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Marsden, Paul
Assistant Referee: Chalkley, Scott
Assistant Referee: Morris, Kevin
Fourth Official: Treleaven, Dean

Referee Tolu Sangowawa will take charge of the Glovers’ game away at Southend on Saturday lunchtime.

This is his first season in the National League having spent the last few seasons in the regional leagues.

The highlight appointment was taking charge of the National League North play-off final between South Shields and Kidderminster.

He booked seven players on that occasion, amazingly Charlie Cooper wasn’t one of them!

In total, his 25/26 stats read, 20 games, 62 yellows, 3 reds and 7 spot kicks.

This season, he has taken charge of Aldershot vs Harrogate and Worthing v Wealdstone; four bookings in each, but Wealdstone’s Dylan Kadji did earn himself a second one and thus got to chill out in the changing rooms early.

He has never taken charge of either Yeovil Town or Southend United.

Stuart Butler and Ryan Head are on flag waving duties, whilst Christopher Darling is fourth official.

Southend United FC (First Team) v Yeovil Town FC (First Team)      Live on DAZN
National League – Premier
Referee: Sangowawa, Tolu
Assistant Referee: Butler, Stuart
Assistant Referee: Head, Ryan
Fourth Official: Darling, Christopher

For one last time this season, let’s take a look at who the match officials are for the Glovers this weekend.

Andrew Humphries is the man in the middle, someone who we have had a little run in with before.

This season, he’s taken charge of 37 games across a range of divisions, mostly in League One.

In fact, he’s only looked after four games at this level all season long.

Those 39 games have seen 119 yellow cards offered (a touch over 3 per game), eight red cards and seven penalties awarded.

He has refereed a Yeovil game this season, the 2-0 away defeat to Forest Green Rovers way back in August.

Charlie Cooper, Byron Pendleton, Finn Cousin-Dawson all got a yellow card each… Jake Wannell picked up a couple of them though and as a result, a red one.

The only time he’s been to Huish Park was a 2-1 defeat against Barnet, one where there was more than a little bit of late controversy as Ed James was scythed down in the penalty area late on… with the referee perfectly positioned, he didn’t fancy making a big call against the Champions elect, and waved play on. There were questions from all in green at full time.

This though, being the something of an end of season friendly, should be a far calmer contest to keep tabs on.

Mr Humphries will be assisted by James Hooper and Thomas Holden, with Kevin Morris on fourth official duty.

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Solihull Moors FC (First Team)
National League – Premier
Referee: Humphries, Andrew
Assistant Referee: Hooper, James
Assistant Referee: Holden, Thomas
Fourth Official: Morris, Kevin