Liverpool v West Ham United
Premier League, Anfield, Sunday 13 April 2025, 2pm BST
Referee: Andrew Madley
Assistant Referees: Scott Ledger & Matthew Wilkes
Fourth Official: Tony Harrington
VAR: John Brooks
Assistant VAR: Steven Meredith
Andrew Madley will referee West Ham United’s Premier League away fixture at Liverpool on Sunday 13 April.
The 41-year-old from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire has been a part of Professional Game Match Officials Limited’s (PGMOL) Select Group One since 2019, having originally made his refereeing debut in the top-flight in Watford’s 2-2 draw with AFC Bournemouth on 31 March 2018.
Madley has refereed 109 Premier League matches in total, with a season-high of 24 in 2022/23, including eight involving West Ham. The first three were played during the COVID-affected 2020/21 season at Leicester City, Southampton and Aston Villa.
The most-recent of Madley’s Hammers’ appointments in the Premier League was at Tottenham Hotspur in October 2024, when Mohammed Kudus was sent-off in the Irons’ 4-1 defeat. Madley’s other West Ham appointment in 2024/25 was the 5-1 Carabao Cup third round defeat at Liverpool last September, when Edson Álvarez was sent-off for two bookable offences.
As for games not involving West Ham, Madley refereed last season’s FA Cup final in which Manchester United beat Manchester City 2-1, as well as the 2015 and 2019 EFL League One Play-Off finals, won by Preston North End and Charlton Athletic respectively.
While Madley’s refereeing has been domestic this season, he did take charge of matches in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying and the international friendlies between South Korea and Saudi Arabia, and Poland and Ukraine in 2023/24.
The assistant referees will be Scott Ledger and Matthew Wilkes.
A vastly experienced assistant, Ledger has run the line in 313 Premier League matches dating back to the 2014/15 season, including 23 involving West Ham. The first was a 2-1 defeat by Arsenal at the Boleyn Ground in December 2014, and the most recent was the 1-0 loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 1 April this year.
Wilkes has plenty of experience, too, with 190 Premier League appointments among the 331 matches in which he has run the line.
Of those 190, 34 have featured West Ham, with the first being a 3-1 victory at Burnley in October 2014. He was an assistant referee in the penultimate game played at the Boleyn Ground against Swansea City in May 2016, and for the match in which Dimitri Payet scored an incredible individual goal against Middlesbrough at London Stadium in October of the same year.
The fourth official will be Tony Harrington, who was promoted to Select Group One ahead of the 2021/22 season.
Another experienced referee, Cleveland-based Harrington took charge of the 1-0 defeat Wolves earlier this month and has taken charge of over 400 matches in his career, while also serving as a fourth official for 82 Premier League fixtures since 2015.
VAR duties will be handled by John Brooks (pictured, above), who refereed our home game with Wolves in December 2024.
Leicestershire-born Brooks was promoted to Select Group One in June 2021 and refereed his first Premier League match between Wolves and Burnley in December of the same year.
This season, he has refereed in the Premier League, EFL Championship, EFL Cup, FA Cup and three ties in the UEFA Europa League.
Brooks has served as fourth official in one West Ham fixture previously this season – the opening-day home defeat by Aston Villa.
He will be assisted at Stockley Park by Steven Meredith, who was VAR for our 2-1 win at Luton Town last season, and 2-1 home victory over Wolves this.
