Background
Hilal Tuba Tosun was born 1970 in Ankara, Turkey to a sportspeople family. Her father Nizamettin Tosun is a former police chief and national sport shooter. She was encouraged also by her father to attend a referee course.
Hilal Tuba Tosun was born 1970 in Ankara, Turkey to a sportspeople family. Her father Nizamettin Tosun is a former police chief and national sport shooter. She was encouraged also by her father to attend a referee course.
She studied physical education at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, and became a school teacher.
She is a Fédération internationale de football association listed woman referee since 2000. Her brother is professional basketball player. She became interested in football sport through two teacher colleagues of hers.
She started her referee career serving as an assistant referee in a TFF Third League match on May 11, 1996.
She was promoted to the referee position officiating a match in the same league on November 1, 1998. In later years, she oversaw many football competitions in different higher-level leagues.
Since November 23, 2008, she supervises matches in the Turkish Women"s First Football League. In 2000, Tosun Ayer received her Fédération internationale de football association badget to officiate international football matches.
On July 16, 2006, she oversaw the group stage match between the women"s national teams of Sweden and Denmark in Langenthal, Switzerland.
Tosun Ayer officiated the preliminary round match of Norway against France at the 2008 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Under-19 Championship played in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France on July 13, 2008. She supervised the match between the national teams from Wales and the Czechoslovakian Republic at the 2011 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup qualification – Union of European Football Associations Group 8 in Llanelli, Wales on 23 September 2009. Another Women"s World Cup qualification match she officiated was the game between Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sopron, Croatia on March 31, 2010.
She served as referee at the Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2013 qualifying round matches for the Group 1 game Greece against Macedonia in Athens, Greece on April 4, 2012 and for the Group 3 game Hungary Bulgaria in Sopron, Croatia on September 19, 2012.
She officiated the 2015 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup qualification – Union of European Football Associations Group 7 match between France and Kazakhstan in Angers, France on April 5, 2014. After officiating a TFF Second League match as the fourth official on May 11, 2014, she ended her 18-year referee career, during which she served in a total of 208 matches.