Iran's Rafati listed among top 20 Bundesliga referees for next

IRNA - Iran's Babak Rafati has been added to the list of top 20 Bundesliga referees for the coming season, the German Football Federation (DFB) announced Tuesday in Frankfurt.

The 35-year-old Rafati has been a second Bundesliga division referee and a first division assistant referee for the past five years.

Rafati is an investment consultant at a bank in the north German city of Hannover.