Hours Today: 1:30pm – 5:30pm
1999, 2003, 2007, 2011
FIFA Women’s World Cup Referee
2004, 2008, 2012
Olympic Games Referee
Home States
Michigan
Kari Seitz worked as FIFA international referee for 15 years, from 1999 through 2013. She is the only person to officiate four Women’s World Cups and three Olympic soccer tournaments.
She was a Major League Soccer referee in 1999, a Women’s United Soccer Association referee from 2001 through 2003, a Women’s Professional Soccer referee from 2009 through 2011, and a National Women’s Soccer League referee in 2013. She officiated two WPS finals and one NWSL final.
She was the head of FIFA Women’s Referees and became U.S. Soccer’s Vice President of Refereeing in 2024.