Markus Merk (born 15 March 1962) is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. He ended his career by refereeing the match between Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC Berlin on the last day of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season on 17 May 2008. He was ranked the best referee by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 2004, 2005 and 2008. He is currently a pundit for Sky Deutschland and was the main referee commentator of the Turkish football channel Lig TV (which had the rights of the Turkish Super League) in the 2010–2011 season. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

List of games of referee Markus Merk in Bundesliga 2007/2008

Games on database								Fouls	Cards		Pen		Atte
17-May-08	Bundesliga M.34		Bayern	4:1	Hertha			24					69000
10	Bundesliga M.33		E Cottbus	2:0	Hamburg			37	1				22746
	Matchday 32
03	Bundesliga M.31		Stuttgart	4:1	Eintracht			30	1				55500
26-Apr-08	Bundesliga M.30		Bochum	1:1	Duisburg			39	1				20000
	Matchday 29
13	Bundesliga M.28		Bayern	5:0	Dortmund			24	2				69000
05	Bundesliga M.27		Wolfsburg	3:2	Hannover			38	2				29322
30-Mar-08	Bundesliga M.26		E Cottbus	2:1	Hertha			51	4		1		20746
	Matchday 25
	Matchday 24
08	Bundesliga M.23		Duisburg	1:1	Rostock			42	4				20206
01	Bundesliga M.22		Werder	2:0	Dortmund			38	6				42100
23-Feb-08	Bundesliga M.21		Stuttgart	3:1	Karlsruhe			40	2				55800
17	Bundesliga M.20		Hannover	0:3	Bayern			35	4				49000
	Matchday 19
	Matchday 18
15-Dec-07	Bundesliga M.17		Hertha	0:0	Bayern			24	2				74220
08	Bundesliga M.16		Stuttgart	3:1	Wolfsburg			37	2				53000
02	Bundesliga M.15		Duisburg	1:0	Nürnberg			38	1				20313
	Matchday 14
10-Nov-07	Bundesliga M.13		Rostock	3:2	E Cottbus			37	1				20000
03	Bundesliga M.12		Hamburg	2:1	Hertha			22					56493
28-Oct-07	Bundesliga M.11		Dortmund	0:0	Bayern			45	4				80708
	Matchday 10
06	Bundesliga M.9		Stuttgart	0:2	Hannover			29	3	1	1		49000
29-Sep-07	Bundesliga M.8		Werder	8:1	Bielefeld			30	2				40120
	Matchday 7
22	Bundesliga M.6		E Cottbus	1:2	Wolfsburg			27	2				15269
15	Bundesliga M.5		Leverkusn	2:0	Bochum			39	4	1			22500
02	Bundesliga M.4		Karlsruhe	1:0	Stuttgart			45	4				27800
26-Aug-07	Bundesliga M.3		Eintracht	1:0	Rostock			36	2				44000
18	Bundesliga M.2		Werder	0:4	Bayern			48	2		1		42100
	Matchday 1