{{Short description|Irish football referee}} {{Notability|Sports|date=March 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox football official | name = Anthony Buttimer | image = Anthony Buttimer (cropped).jpg | caption = Buttimer during a 2015 League of Ireland game with Bohemians vs. Galway United at Eamon Deacy Park | fullname = Anthony Buttimer | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|13 July 1965}} | birth_place = Drogheda, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | otheroccupation = | years1 = 2007 | league1 = LOI First Division | role1 = Referee | years2 = 2008 | league2 = LOI Premier Division | role2 = Referee | years3 = 2010 | league3 = UEFA Champions League | role3 = Referee | internationalyears1 = ? | confederation1 = UEFA listed | internationalrole1 = Referee }}
'''Anthony Buttimer''' (born 13 July 1965) is an Irish FIFA-level<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/kelly-blows-the-whistle-on-irelands-referee-bashers-91485.html|title=Kelly blows the whistle on Ireland's referee bashers|date=7 June 2006|accessdate=2008-11-23|work=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2007/1220/sport/mheykfeycwoj/|title=FIFA awards 17 badges to Irish referees and assistants|date=20 December 2007|accessdate=2008-11-24|publisher=BreakingNews.ie}}</ref> soccer referee from County Cork. A League of Ireland official, he took charge of the 2008 FAI Cup Final in the RDS, Dublin.
==Career== Buttimer regularly referees matches in the League of Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/prematch-bustup-fails-to-stop-rovers-run-1056639.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903220133/http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/prematch-bustup-fails-to-stop-rovers-run-1056639.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 September 2012 |title=Pre-match bust-up fails to stop Rovers' run |date=11 August 2007 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |work=Irish Independent }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/revenge-sweet-as-sammon-nets-win-1417795.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905012114/http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/revenge-sweet-as-sammon-nets-win-1417795.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 5 September 2012 |title=Revenge sweet as Sammon nets win |date=21 June 2008 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |work=Irish Independent }}</ref> In the past he has been dispatched to referee local derbies including the Connacht Derby contested between Sligo Rovers and Galway United in August 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/charles-and-cooke-ensure-home-delight-for-galway-1065950.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908004539/http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/charles-and-cooke-ensure-home-delight-for-galway-1065950.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 September 2012 |title=Charles and Cooke ensure home delight for Galway |date=25 August 2007 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |work=Irish Independent }}</ref> He was also deployed in the 2013 FAI Cup Semi Final and Louth Derby between Dundalk and Drogheda.<ref>{{cite web|title=Referee red calls enrage Dundalk |url=http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/referee-red-calls-enrage-dundalk-29640435.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131008013112/http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/referee-red-calls-enrage-dundalk-29640435.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 8 October 2013 |work=The Herald}}</ref>
In September 2007, Buttimer took issue with the colour of the goalkeeper's jerseys in a game between Dundalk and Shelbourne. It was eventually agreed that the Dundalk goalkeeper would wear a t-shirt with a white strip of tape on the back whilst the Shelbourne goalkeeper would wear a training top for the match.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/referee-in-goalkeeper-strip-fiasco-1114826.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913154028/http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/referee-in-goalkeeper-strip-fiasco-1114826.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 September 2012 |title=Referee in goalkeeper strip fiasco |date=3 October 2007 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |work=Irish Independent }}</ref> A similar incident occurred in March 2008, when he said that the kit worn by Sligo Rovers was too similar to the kit worn by St Patrick's Athletic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/saints-alive-after-ref-gets-shirty-over-jersey-clash-1311098.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803185909/http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/saints-alive-after-ref-gets-shirty-over-jersey-clash-1311098.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 3 August 2012 |title=Saints alive after ref gets shirty over jersey clash |date=8 March 2008 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |work=Irish Independent }}</ref>
Buttimer took charge of the 2008-09 UEFA Cup qualifier first round second leg match between KS Vllaznia Shkodër and FC Koper at the Loro-Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër, Albania. The match finished 0 – 0, with him issuing three yellow cards.<ref>[http://worldreferee.com/site/match.php?refID=823 Anthony Buttimer profile]. WorldReferee.com. Accessed 24 November 2008.</ref>
On 23 November, Buttimer took charge of the 2008 FAI Cup Final, in which Bohemians beat Derry City<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/1123/bohemians_derry1.html |title=Bohemians 2-2 Derry City (AET, 4-2 pens) |date=23 November 2008 |accessdate=2008-11-23 |publisher=RTÉ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204042527/http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/1123/bohemians_derry1.html |archivedate= 4 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was the first FAI Cup Final to feature a penalty shoot-out.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/mhidqlojqlsn/|title=Bohs win FAI Ford Cup on penalties|date=23 November 2008|accessdate=2008-11-24|publisher=BreakingNews.ie}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{WorldReferee.com|anthony_buttimer<!-- was 823 -->}} * {{WorldFootball.net referee|anthony-buttimer}} * {{Soccerway referee|anthony-buttimer/44715}} * {{Soccerbase referee|1117}}
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