Steve Tanner began refereeing in 1987, starting in the Southern League and was promoted to the list of Football League assistant referees in 1998.
In 2003 he progressed to the National List of Football League referees, taking control of his first match on 9 August 2003 in a Third Division match between Kidderminster and Mansfield.
He took charge of the Championship play-off semi-final second leg between Watford and Crystal Palace in May 2006
He was promoted to the Select Group of referees at the start of the 2007/08 after refereeing three Premier League games in the previous season as 'trial' matches, the first of which was the encounter between Reading and Everton on 23 December 2006, although one of the three matches was abandoned after ten minutes
On 13 May 2007 he refereed the first leg Championship play-off semi-final between Wolves and West Brom. On 1 January 2008 he was added to the FIFA list of referees, replacing Graham Poll.
In November 2009 Steve Tanner along with Keith Stroud had their places on the select group of referees relinquished, and has therefore Steve Tanner also lost his place on the international list for 2010.
His last match was a 2-1 home win for Derby against Leeds on 12 April. His last Sheffield United match was a 3-2 defeat at Scunthorpe on 22 February, which saw the Blades reduced to ten men when Shane Lowry was red carded on 89 minutes.
Season record:
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Season: |
Matches: |
Yellow Cards: |
Red Cards: |
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2010/11 |
40 |
113 |
10 |
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2009/10 |
34 |
111 |
3 |
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2008/09 |
32 |
109 |
10 |
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2007/08 |
34 |
103 |
3 |
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2006/07 |
35 |
93 |
3 |
|
2005/06 |
37 |
127 |
9 |
|
2004/05 |
33 |
91 |
9 |
|
2003/04 |
28 |
107 |
10 |
Steve Tanner and Preston:
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Date: |
Match: |
PNE Goalscorers: |
Total Cards: |
PNE Cards |
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07/08/10 |
PNE 0 Doncaster 2 |
None |
7 Y 1 R |
Davidson, Gray, Russell, C.Brown |
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23/03/10 |
Middlesbro 2 PNE 0 |
None |
4 |
Carter; Mellor; Wallace |
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28/02/09 |
PNE 3 Ipswich 2 |
Davidson (Pen); Parkin; Elliott |
7 |
Chaplow; Davidson; Elliott; Parkin; McKenna |
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25/08/07 |
PNE 0 Colchester 3 |
None |
4 |
Carter; Davidson; Nicholls |
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07/04/07 |
C.Palace 3 PNE 0 |
None |
3 |
Alexander; Pugh |
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03/02/07 |
Sheff.Wed. 1 PNE 3 |
Ormerod; Nugent 2 |
2 |
Ricketts |
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27/10/06 |
Burnley 3 PNE 2 |
Whalley; Ormerod |
3 |
Dichio; St.Ledger; Pugh |
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24/09/05 |
C.Palace 1 PNE 1 |
Lucketti |
4Y / 2R |
Jones; Lucketti; Nowland; Sedgwick (Red Cards Davis; Dichio) |
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05/03/05 |
West Ham 1 PNE 2 |
Nugent; Agyemang |
5Y / 1R |
Alexander; Sedgwick |
His assistants against Sheffield United are Philip Dermott from Cheshire and Gary Hilton from Lancashire. Also from the Red Rose County is fourth official Paul Marsden.