Five top African referees have been picked for this year’s FIFA Club World Cup, but there’s no South African on the list.

FIFA has selected 117 match officials in a list drawn from 41 FIFA member associations. The list includes 35 referees, 58 assistant referees, and 24 video assistant referees (VAR).

Dahane Beida (Mauritania), Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria), Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya), Jean Jacques Ndala (DR Congo), and Issa Sy (Senegal) will represent Africa amongst the 35 referees, while there are more representatives from the continent in the sections of assistant referee (5) and VAR (3).

The tournament kicks off on June 14 and runs until July 13 in the United States (US), and the African clubs involved will be Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), Al Ahly (Egypt), Espérance (Tunisia), and Wydad Casablanca (Morocco).

Meanwhile, FIFA has confirmed that referees at the Club World Cup will wear body cameras on a trial basis.

“We think that it is a good chance to offer the viewers a new experience in terms of images taken from a perspective, from an angle of vision that was never offered before,” said Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA referees committee.

“It also has a purpose in terms of referee coaching. Because having the possibility to see what the referee sees is important in the debriefing to evaluate how the call was made by the referee, what his view was, and so on. So it’s a combination of new experience for broadcasters and also for coaching purposes.”