# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunter-benko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:16.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunter-benko"
name: "Günter Benkö"
slug: "gunter-benko"
description: "Günter Benkö is a retired football (soccer) referee from Austria, best known for supervising two matches during the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. He also led two matches at the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands. Benkö was in charge of the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1998-99, on May 19, 1999 in Villa Park, Birmingham, between S.S. Lazio and RCD Mallorca."
tagline: "Austrian football referee"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6_-_ehemaliger_Fu%C3%9Fballschiedsrichter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1955-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.37
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.17970133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гюнтер Бенке"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6"
    title: "Günter Benkö"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Benk%C3%B6"
    title: "Günter Benkö"
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    title: "Günter Benkö"
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    title: "Бенкё, Гюнтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump