Referee profile

Mykola Balakin

Ukraine
165 matches officiated

Matches officiated: 165
Yellow cards / match: 4.97
Reds / match: 0.28
Yellow / match, recent: 3.43

Last 12 months

21 matches since 6 Nov 2025, compared with the average referee

Last 12 months
Metric	Mykola Balakin	Average	Difference from average
Yellow cards / match	3.37	3.99	−16%
Red cards / match	0.14	0.21	−34%
Penalty goals / match	0.16	0.23	−30%
Goals / match	2.71	2.79	−3%
Home wins	33%	44%	−24%
Draws	29%	25%	+13%

Ranked 871 of 1119 referees for yellow cards (1 = strictest).

Match results

By league

1 Ukrainian Premier League 2.00 goals · 3.60 yellows / match 11 matches
2 UEFA Europa League 2.80 goals · – yellows / match 5 matches
3 UEFA Conference League 3.00 goals · – yellows / match 2 matches
4 World Cup Qual. UEFA 2.00 goals · – yellows / match 1 match
5 UEFA Nations League 6.00 goals · – yellows / match 1 match
6 UEFA Champions League 7.00 goals · – yellows / match 1 match

Cards per match

Recent matches (oldest to newest); the dashed line is the career average. Click a bar to open the match.

Yellow cardsRed cardsCareer avg.

League breakdown

Competitions of the last 30 matches

Ukrainian Premier League 16 16 matches · 3.8 yellow/match

UEFA Europa League 5 5 matches · 3.0 yellow/match

UEFA Conference League 4 4 matches · 4.0 yellow/match

UEFA Champions League 2 2 matches · 1.0 yellow/match

UEFA Nations League 1 1 matches · 2.0 yellow/match

World Cup Qual. UEFA 1 1 matches · 3.0 yellow/match

Ukraine Cup 1 1 matches · – yellow/match

Recent matches

Older matches exist at the source.

FT 30 Oct

Shakhtar Donetsk

Obolon Kyiv 2 0

Ukrainian Premier League –

FT 22 Oct

Royale Union Saint-Gilloise

Hapoel Be'er Sheva 4 0

UEFA Europa League 5 0

FT 12 Oct

FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv

Zoria Luhansk 1 3

Ukrainian Premier League 1 0

FT 1 Oct

Denmark

Portugal 2 4

UEFA Nations League 2 0

FT 20 Sep

Karpaty Lviv

NK Veres Rivne 1 1

Ukrainian Premier League 6 1

FT 9 Sep

Paris Saint-Germain

ŠK Slovan Bratislava 6 1

UEFA Champions League 1 0

FT 20 Aug

Mjällby AIF

Red Bull Salzburg 0 1

UEFA Europa League 1 0

FT 24 May

Obolon Kyiv

LNZ Cherkasy 0 1

Ukrainian Premier League 4 0

FT 13 May

Shakhtar Donetsk

Obolon Kyiv 3 1

Ukrainian Premier League 4 0

FT 2 May

Karpaty Lviv

LNZ Cherkasy 0 0

Ukrainian Premier League 6 0

FT 11 Apr

Karpaty Lviv

Oleksandria 2 0

Ukrainian Premier League 3 2

FT 19 Mar

RC Strasbourg

HNK Rijeka 1 1

UEFA Conference League 3 0

FT 8 Mar

Polissya Zhytomyr

Dynamo Kyiv 1 2

Ukrainian Premier League 1 0

FT 26 Feb

HNK Rijeka

Omonia Nicosia 3 1

UEFA Conference League 5 0

FT 21 Feb

FC Kharkiv

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0 0

Ukrainian Premier League 5 0

FT 22 Jan

Ferencváros TC

Panathinaikos FC 1 1

UEFA Europa League 4 0

FT 11 Dec

FCSB

Feyenoord 4 3

UEFA Europa League 3 0

FT 22 Nov

Karpaty Lviv

FC Kharkiv 1 2

Ukrainian Premier League 2 0

FT 13 Nov

Moldova

Italy 0 2

World Cup Qual. UEFA 3 0

FT 9 Nov

Dynamo Kyiv

LNZ Cherkasy 0 1

Ukrainian Premier League 4 0

FT 6 Nov

SK Sturm Graz

Nottingham Forest 0 0

UEFA Europa League 2 0

FT 26 Oct

Dynamo Kyiv

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 4 0

Ukrainian Premier League 4 0

FT 14 Sep

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

Polissya Zhytomyr 0 1

Ukrainian Premier League 6 0

FT 28 Aug

SS Virtus

Breidablik Kópavogur 1 3

UEFA Conference League –

FT 14 Aug

Sabah FK

Levski Sofia 0 2

UEFA Conference League –

FT 10 Aug

Karpaty Lviv

Shakhtar Donetsk 3 3

Ukrainian Premier League 4 0

FT 22 Jul

Pafos FC

Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 1

UEFA Champions League –

FT 1 Jun

Vorskla Poltava

Kudrivka 0(3) 1(4)

Ukrainian Premier League –

FT 23 May

Obolon Kyiv

FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv 1 0

Ukrainian Premier League –

FT 14 May

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv 1(6) 1(5)

Ukraine Cup –