István Vad II was born on the 30th May 1979 in Vecsés. As a child, he started playing football with Rákosmenti TK, then later in the youth teams of Ferencváros, and finally at BVSC, but at a relatively young age he stopped playing football and started refereeing. He has been a member of FIFA's international referees since 2007 and has been officiating in the Champions League since 2010.

His last game involving Vidi was league match in May 2019, when we were beaten 2-1 at the home of DVTK. In February of this year, he was in the middle for the Hungarian Cup game against Újpest FC

Vad will be assisted by Balázs Buzás, Tamás Márkus, Sándor Andó-Szabó and Ádám Radványi with Zoltán Horváth being the fourth official for the game, which will kick off at 19:00pm on Wednesday.