Doğan Babacan is a retired Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 football referee, he is the only Turkish referee that supervised a match in the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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 history.

He played football for Beşiktaş JK, Karşıyaka S.K., Kasımpaşa S.K.

Kasimpasa S.K.

Kasımpaşa Spor Kulübü is a Turkish football club located in Istanbul, Turkey. They play their home games in the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium. The club was founded in 1921 as Altıntuğ. They played in the Istanbul First League between 1939–1945 and 1946–1959. The club was promoted to the Turkish...

 and Hacettepe

Keçiörengücü

Keçiörengücü is a sports club located in Ankara, Turkey. The football club plays in the Iddaa League B. Keçiörengücü was founded as Hacettepe with black-white colours in 1945. Hacettepe was one of Turkish First League's founder teams. They played in the First League between 1958-1960 and 1962-1968...

. His career as a referee began in 1955, he was placed on FIFA's Referees List in 1968. He is known for supervising first round Group 1 match between West Germany

Germany national football team

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 and Chile

Chile national football team

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 in the 1974 FIFA World Cup

1974 FIFA World Cup

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. In that match, Babacan sent off Chilean Carlos Caszely

Carlos Caszely

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 by red card, it was the first Red Card in the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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 history.

Later he was referee for the 1975 UEFA Super Cup

1975 UEFA Super Cup

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 final between FC Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich

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 and FC Dynamo Kyiv

FC Dynamo Kyiv

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, he retired from international refereeing in 1978.