The Best Referee of Asia for last four years collected 48 points and claimed the 19th place in the ranking. Irmatov is the best referee of Asia in the ranking.

After 11 years, the no more active German Dr. Markus Merk, who was The World’s best Referee of the Year three times, is the leading World’s best Referee of the 21st Century, ahead of the still active Jorge Luis Larrionda. The Uruguayan is therefore - up to now - the best South American referee of the 21st century, ahead of Colombian Óscar Julián Ruiz.