A male referee assaulted a female player following a women's provincial football match in Belgium on Friday evening, striking her repeatedly in the face and leaving her with a concussion and neck injuries. The incident occurred after a match between Stokkem VV and Lommel SK (clubs in Belgium's lower regional football divisions), which Stokkem won 13–2; the referee issued a second yellow card to player Wendy after apparently interpreting her post-match applause as a provocation, then confronted her and hit her near the left temple, briefly knocking her unconscious. A club integrity officer who intervened suffered a broken shinbone, and police have filed an official report while investigating the sequence of events.