Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari Net Worth

Background and career

Muhammad Taqi Al-Jaafari bin Jahari (born 25 October 1986) is a Singaporean international football referee. He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012, and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches. He has also won the 2014 S.League Referee of the Year and the AFF Referee of the Year in 2017.

Internationally, Taqi refereed the matches in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.

While continentally, Taqi has also officiated in the finals of the 2012, 2014, and 2019 and 2024–25 Singapore Cup Final, the 2019 Indian Super League final, the 2019 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship, the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, the 2026 Vietnamese Cup final, as well as matches in the Chinese Super League, Indian Super League, Indonesia Super League, and the Indonesia President's Cup.

Taqi was selected as a Video Assistant Referee at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup becoming the first Singaporean to officiate at both the men's and women's World Cup tournaments. He also was selected as the assistant VAR referee in the 2020 Olympic football final between Brazil and Spain.

Taqi is the fifth Singaporean referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup after George Suppiah (1974), Shamsul Maidin (2006), K. Visvanathan (2002) and Jeffrey Goh (2010).