| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar | ||
| Date of birth | 27 August 1941 | ||
| Place of birth | Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1958–1961 | Spartak Stanislav | ||
| 1962–1963 | Volyn Lutsk | ||
| 1964–1965 | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | ||
| 1966–1969 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
| Domestic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | League | Role | |
| 1973–1991 | Soviet Top League | Referee | |
| International | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 1977-1982 | FIFA listed | Referee | |
Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar (Ukrainian: Мирослав Іванович Ступар; Russian: Мирослав Иванович Ступар; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee.
As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Volyn Lutsk, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also for the FC Dynamo Kyiv reserves.
As a referee he officiated at about 150 matches of the Soviet Top League. Stupar twice refereed Soviet Cup finals (1979, 1981). He appeared 7 times in the Soviet annual best referees list.
He refereed the 1982 World Cup game in Valladolid, Spain, between France and Kuwait. France were leading 3-1 when their midfielder Alain Giresse broke through to score a fourth goal. The Kuwaiti players protested, claiming that they had stopped playing because they had heard a whistle from the crowd and thought it was the referee blowing. Stupar ended up disallowing Giresse's goal and the game resumed with a dropped-ball at the spot where it was believed the game stopped at the whistle. France ended up winning 4–1.