David Yareboinen

David Yareboinen (born 1991 or 1992

Career Yareboinen is the fifth of six children and was born in Goroka, in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. He has also officiated in World Cup qualifiers, refereeing a single match between the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands at the Al Arabi Stadium in Doha, Qatar, for the confederation's pool for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Other OFC tournaments for Yareboinen include the 2024 edition of the OFC Men's Nations Cup in Vanuatu.

Among Yareboinen's most important matches are the Gold medal match at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa, where he refereed the final between New Zealand U-23 and New Caledonia, as well as the final at the 2023 OFC Champions League between Auckland City FC and Suva F.C. He also led matches of the men's tournament at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu, which crowned the locals as the champions. Yareboinen's latest performance at the Pacific Games were at the men's tournament of the 2023 edition. In 2023, Yareboinen was appointed for the OFC U-17 Championship and, in 2024, he led games at the OFC U-19 Men's Championship, and at the OFC U-16 Men's Championship.

Outside OFC tournaments, Yareboinen's most prominent roles were at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland, where he served as a support referee for the confederation's representative Abdelkader Zitouni of Tahiti, and an international university soccer tournament in China.

In an interview to a local magazine in Papua New Guinea, Yareboinen said that while Papuan New Guinean referees have reached international competitions, the national team is far from reaching any important tournament due to low quality of local football, comparing the country's football level with the better quality of Australia and New Zealand. He also urged the national team's players to put more effort in their training to "raise [our] flag in the outskirts."

Selected record OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Date Match Result Round 24 September 2019 – 12–0 Group stage – 2019 Fiji 2 October 2019 – 6–1 Semifinal – 2019 Fiji 3 September 2023 – 1–5 Group stage – 2023 New Zealand 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup – Poland Date Match Result Round 25 May 2019 – 1–0 Group stage