Vladimír Hriňák

Vladimír Hriňák (25 February 1964 – 25 July 2012) was a Slovak football referee. He took up refereeing in 1982, and was promoted to the Czechoslovak First League for the 1992–93 season, in which he refereed 7 matches and made 22 more appearances. Besided that he added 220 matches as the referee in a separate Slovak League Competition.

In 1993, he became a FIFA-listed match official, and in a 16-year international career, he refereed over 100 UEFA matches. Hriňák's final international fixture was a match between Villarreal and Red Bull Salzburg in the group stage of the 2009–10 Europa League on 17 December 2009. He said goodbye to his home scene on 29 November 2009, in the match between Nitra and Dubnica.

After retiring from refereeing, Hriňák took up several positions within the Slovak Football Association and was also the chairman of the Bratislava Football Association referees committee.