# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alhambra-nievas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:04:20.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alhambra-nievas"
name: "Alhambra Nievas"
slug: "alhambra-nievas"
description: "Alhambra Nievas González is a former Spain women's rugby union international and a current rugby union referee. Nievas refereed the women's final at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2016 she also served as an assistant referee at a men's international between Tonga and the United States. This saw her become the first woman to officiate in a men's rugby union international. In 2017 Nievas refereed a Rugby Europe Conference match between Finland and Norway. This saw her become the first woman to referee a men's rugby union international in Europe. In 2016 Nievas, along with Rasta Rasivhenge, was jointly named World Rugby Referee of the Year. She is the first woman to win the award. She was previously nominated for the award in 2015."
tagline: "Spanish rugby union footballer, coach and referee, and engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alhambra_Nievas_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1983-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.804572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lunalni"
    handle:    "lunalni"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AlhambraNievas"
    handle:    "AlhambraNievas"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alhambranievas.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Nievas_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Alhambra Nievas González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Nievas"
    title: "Alhambra Nievas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Nievas"
    title: "Alhambra Nievas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Nievas"
    title: "Alhambra Nievas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Nievas"
    title: "Alhambra Nievas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27685212"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump