Myroslav Stupar

Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar (Ukrainian: Мирослав Іванович Ступар; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Мирослав Иванович Ступар; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee.

As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Volyn Lutsk, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also for the FC Dynamo Kyiv reserves.

As a referee he officiated at about 150 matches of the Soviet Top League. Stupar twice refereed Soviet Cup finals (1979, 1981). He appeared 7 times in the Soviet annual best referees list.

He refereed the 1982 World Cup game in Valladolid, Spain, between France and Kuwait. France were leading 3-1 when their midfielder Alain Giresse broke through to score a fourth goal. The Kuwaiti players protested, claiming that they had stopped playing because they had heard a whistle from the crowd and thought it was the referee blowing. Stupar ended up disallowing Giresse's goal and the game resumed with a dropped-ball at the spot where it was believed the game stopped at the whistle. France ended up winning 4–1.

• (in German) Profile
• (in Ukrainian) Verbytsky, I. Myroslav Stupar: After ending my playing career, I could not visit a stadium for three months (Мирослав Ступар: Завершивши кар’єру, не міг відвідувати стадіон впродовж трьох місяців). UA-Football. 20 January 2014.