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English referee Martin Atkinson has been selected by UEFA to referee the Group E clash between Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday night. He will be assisted by Stephen Child & Stuart Burt, with Michael Oliver and Craig Pawson acting as additional assistants. Michael Mullarkey will be the 4th official. The group's other game, in which BATE Borisov host Roma, will also be officiated by an all English team headed by Mark Clattenburg.
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Elsewhere on Tuesday, Arsenal's game against Olympiacos will be refereed by Dutch official Bas Nijhuis, while Spaniard Antonio Mateu Lahoz has been entrusted with Jose Mourinho's return to Porto as the Portugese champions host Chelsea. UEFA have selected another all Spanish team for Group G's other game, with David Ferndandez Borbalan the man in the middle for Maccabi Tel Aviv v Dynamo Kyiv.
Bayern Munich's first home game of the tournament will be refereed by First Group referee Aleksei Kulbakov of Belarus, while Matej Jug (Slovenia) and Milorad Mazic (Serbia) complete the Tuesday line up, overseeing Zenit v Gent and Lyon v Valencia respectively.