Jorge Baliño
Argentine football referee

Jorge Baliño
Baliño in 2009
Full name Jorge Ignacio Baliño
Born (1979-10-08) 8 October 1979 (age 46)
Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Domestic
Years League Role
Argentine Primera División (since 2007)[1] Referee
International
Years League Role
2015–2018 FIFA listed Referee

Jorge Ignacio Baliño (born 8 October 1979[2]) is an Argentine association football referee, who officiates in the Argentine Primera División and was a FIFA-listed international referee between 2015 and 2018. Since 2022, he is a FIFA-listed VAR official.[3][4]

Baliño was the VAR official at the 2023 Copa Sudamericana final.[5]

Career

Baliño was born in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, and first worked as a firefighter in Chillar, a town near Tandil.[2][5] He made his debut in the Primera División of the Tandil Football League on 25 May 2001.[1]

After officiating for a few seasons in the lower division, Baliño made his debut as a referee in the Primera División of Argentine football in June 2007, at a match between Argentinos Juniors and Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.[1] In April 2019, Baliño, joined by several referees and assistant referees of the lower divisions of Argentine football, resigned from the body of Argentine referees, in protest of the leadership of the union's president, Guillermo Marconi.[6]

In July 2022, during a Primera División match between Barracas Central and Club Atlético Patronato, Baliño became involved in a controversy, when he wrongly disallowed two goals against Patronato at the request of VAR and gave an inexistent penalty kick for Barracas.[7]

International appearances

In mid-January 2017, CONMEBOL announced the referees for the 2017 South American U-17 Championship, which was held in Chile.[8] It was Baliño's first international tournament, who said in an interview with Argentine Football Association website, that he thought it was the right time for him to break into international officiating.[9]

He oversaw the second round of Group A, in the match between Chile and Colombia. During the course of the match, Baliño showed two yellow cards and awarded a penalty kick for Colombia in the 90th minute, which Chilean goalkeeper Borqués Hernández saved moments later.[10]

Baliño serves as a VAR official at the 2025 Copa Libertadores,[11] and was chosen as the AVAR official for the final match between Palmeiras and Flemengo on 29 November.[12]

Statistics as a referee

Tournaments Constester Years Matches Yellow card Yellow card Average Red card Red card Average
Argentina Primera División de Argentina Argentina AFA–SAF 2007– 237 1145 4.83 96 0.40
Argentina Primera B Nacional Argentina AFA 2006–2015 182 891 4.89 105 0.57
Argentina Copa Argentina Argentina AFA 2011– 29 115 3.96 11 0.37
Argentina Relegation Argentina AFA 2008 1 5 5.00 3 3.00
Union of South American Nations Copa Conmebol Libertadores Union of South American Nations Conmebol 2016–2018 1 3 3.00 0 0.00
Union of South American Nations Copa Conmebol Sudamericana Union of South American Nations Conmebol 2010– 3 13 4.33 0 0.00
Chile South American U-17 Football Championship Union of South American Nations Conmebol 2017 4 16 4.00 0 0.00
Friendlies FIFA 2017 1 4 4.00 0 0.00
Totals 2006– 458 2192 4.78 215 0.46
Matches as referee are correct as of 21 March 2023

Source: worldfootball.net[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c Manazzoni, Franco (9 March 2016). "Debut internacional para "Nacho" Baliño". Deporte Tandilense (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Jorge Baliño: su pasado en el rugby, su vocación de bombero y la broma que lo llevó al arbitraje profesional". Todo Noticias (in Spanish). 27 July 2002. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  3. ^ "2022 Refereeing International Lists" (PDF). FIFA.com. FIFA. 2022. p. 14. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Merlos y Baliño internacionales a partir de 2015". Tandil Referees Association (in Spanish). 30 October 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Baliño manejará en VAR en la final de la Sudamericana". El Eco de Tandil (in Spanish). 24 October 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  6. ^ Bottesi, Luciano (24 April 2019). "SADRA: Marconi pierde apoyo y afiliados". Diario Popular (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  7. ^ Scime, Miguel (26 July 2022). "La lupa sobre el escándalo con el VAR en Barracas-Patronato: dos goles mal anulados a la visita y un penal inexistente que desataron el caos". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Convocados los árbitros para el Sudamericano Sub-17, Chile 2017". CONMEBOL.com (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Otros protagonistas en Chile". Argentine Football Association News (in Spanish). 26 February 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Chile rescató un trabajado empate ante Colombia en el Sudamericano sub 17". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 26 February 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  11. ^ "Conmebol confirmó a los árbitros para los duelos de cuartos de final de la Copa Libertadores y Sudamericana". Infobae (in Spanish). 12 September 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  12. ^ "Darío Herrera es el árbitro de la final de la Copa Libertadores: sus antecedentes dirigiendo a Palmeiras y Flamengo". DSports (in Spanish). 29 November 2025. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  13. ^ "Jorge Baliño's statistics as referee". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
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