Check PCB Umpire and Match Referee Panels: 17 Elite Umpires, 13 Women Umpires and Every Name
The PCB lists 107 umpires and 19 match referees on its 2025-26 panels. Check every elite, emerging and women umpire, their cities and where the counts differ.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) lists 107 umpires across five panels and 19 match referees across two, on its Match Officials' Panel page for 2025-26. The top domestic tier, the National Elite Panel of Umpires, names 17 umpires, although its heading says 18. The PCB Women Panel names 13 umpires.
We read the PCB page on 20 October 2026 and counted every name ourselves. The page still carries the 2025-26 label. We found no 2026-27 list, so this is the panel the board is showing while the new domestic season is under way.
The PCB lists eight groups of umpires and match referees
The PCB splits its officials into one ICC international group, five umpire panels and two match referee panels. Each panel line on the page gives a stated number in brackets, then the names with home cities. Our count matches the stated number on five lists and falls one short on three.
| Panel | Number in the PCB heading | Names we counted |
|---|---|---|
| ICC International panel of match officials | 7 | 7 |
| PCB Elite Panel of Match Referees | 10 | 9 |
| National Elite Panel of Umpires | 18 | 17 |
| Supplementary I Panel of Umpires | 14 | 14 |
| Supplementary II Panel of Umpires | 24 | 24 |
| Supplementary Panel of Match Referees | 10 | 10 |
| PCB Emerging Panel of Umpires | 40 | 39 |
| PCB Women Panel of Umpires | 13 | 13 |
A gap of one name usually means somebody was removed and the heading was not changed, or the other way round. The page does not say which. So if you need to know whether a named official is on a panel, the list of names is a better guide than the number.
Seven Pakistanis sit on the ICC international panel
The ICC group on the PCB page names seven officials. Ali Naqvi is marked as match referee. Asif Yaqoob, Faisal Khan Aafreedi, Nasir Hussain, Rashid Riaz Waqar and Saleema Imtiaz are marked as umpires. Kamran Chaudhary of Lahore is listed between them with no role written next to his name.
Saleema Imtiaz is the only woman in the ICC group, and she is also on the PCB Women Panel. Asif Yaqoob, Faisal Khan Aafreedi and Rashid Riaz Waqar also appear on the National Elite Panel. Ali Naqvi appears on the Elite Panel of Match Referees too. So a few officials sit on two lists at once.
The officials who stood in Pakistan's tri-series games are named match by match in our tri-series umpires and referee list. That list comes from the ICC appointments, not from this PCB page.
The National Elite Panel names 17 umpires from nine cities
Lahore and Karachi have four elite umpires each. Abbottabad and Charsadda have two each. Islamabad, Sargodha, Sibi, Bahawalpur and Khanewal have one each. No elite umpire on the list is from Quetta, Peshawar, Multan or Rawalpindi.
The 17 names are Abdul Moqeet, Aley Haider, Asif Yaqoob, Farooq Ali Khan, Faisal Khan Aafreedi, Ghulam Sarwar, Imran Jawed, Imranullah Aslam, Kashif Sohail, Khalid Mehmood Snr, Muhammad Sajid, Qaiser Khan, Rashid Riaz Waqar, Saqib Khan, Syed Imtiaz Iqbal, Tariq Rasheed and Zulfiqar Jan.
These are the umpires you are most likely to see in President's Trophy Grade-I games. Breaches in that event are dealt with by the match referee under the code we explained in our piece on President's Trophy fines and Level 1 breaches.
The Emerging Panel is the largest, with 39 names
The PCB Emerging Panel of Umpires is the biggest list, with 39 names against a stated 40. It is also the most spread out. Peshawar, Charsadda, Kohat and Lahore have four each, and the panel includes umpires from Swat, Mardan, Okara, Attock and Bahawalnagar.
Supplementary I has 14 umpires, six of them from Lahore. Supplementary II has 24, from 19 places as far apart as Pishin, Loralai, Dadu and Buner.
You can see the panels at work on the PCB match centre. The officials listed for the Grade-II Gold final between Kingsmen and Eshaal Associates include Ahmad Shahab and Irfan Haider, both on Supplementary I. They also include Sami ul Haq, which matches the Samiul Haq on the Supplementary Panel of Match Referees. That final is in our report on Kingsmen's 82-run win.
The Grade-II Silver final, which began on 20 October at the Lahore Country Club, shows the same pattern. Its officials include Muhammad Waqas and Muhammad Irfan Dilshad, both Lahore umpires on Supplementary II, and Inam Ullah Khan, which matches Inamullah Khan of Lahore on the supplementary referees list.
The Women Panel has 13 umpires, seven from Lahore
The PCB Women Panel of Umpires names 13 women. Seven are from Lahore and two from Kasur. Muzaffarabad, Karachi, Multan and Khairpur have one each. Our count matches the PCB's stated number exactly for this panel.
The names are Afia Amin, Ayesha Farooq, Fakhira Kazim Syeda, Hummairah Farah, Nazia Nazir, Riffat Mustafa, Sabahat Rasheed, Saleema Imtiaz, Sania Ashraf, Shakila Rafiq, Sukhan Faiz, Sumaira Sajid and Zakia Gul.
How to check whether an umpire is on a PCB panel
The quickest check takes about two minutes. Open the PCB Match Officials' Panel page, search for the name, then note which panel line it sits on. Use the city in brackets to separate two people with the same name.
- Open the PCB website and go to the Match Officials' Panel page.
- Press Ctrl and F, or Find on a phone, and type the surname.
- Read the panel heading at the start of that line.
- Match the city in brackets, since names like Muhammad Imran repeat.
- Check the match centre to see which games that official has been given.
Same names are a real trap here. There is a Muhammad Imran from Sargodha on Supplementary I and a Muhammad Imran Jnr from Bahawalnagar on the Emerging Panel. There are two Sohail Khans, one a Lahore match referee and one a Charsadda umpire.
The PCB page does not explain how an umpire moves up from Emerging to Supplementary to Elite, or how to join. We found no application form or course notice for new umpires on the PCB site when we checked.
Common questions
How many umpires are on the PCB National Elite Panel?
17 names are listed, although the heading on the PCB page says 18.
Who is the Pakistani match referee on the ICC panel?
Ali Naqvi, from Lahore. He is also on the PCB Elite Panel of Match Referees.
How many women umpires does the PCB have?
13 on the PCB Women Panel of Umpires. Saleema Imtiaz is also on the ICC international group.
Has the PCB published a 2026-27 umpire panel?
Not on its Match Officials' Panel page, which still showed 2025-26 when we checked on 20 October 2026.
How do I become a PCB umpire?
The PCB page does not say. We found no open application or umpiring course notice on the PCB site on 20 October 2026.
Which city has the most PCB umpires?
Lahore, across all panels. It has four elite umpires, six on Supplementary I and seven on the Women Panel.
How we verified this
What we checked, where we read it, and what we could not confirm.
We read the PCB Match Officials' Panel 2025-26 page on 20 October 2026 and counted every name and home city with a short script, treating "Azad Jammu and Kashmir" as one place. We also read the officials list for the Grade-II Gold final on the PCB match centre the same day. We could not find out why three panels list one name fewer than their headings, the role of Kamran Chaudhary in the ICC group, or how umpires are promoted between panels.
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