Central Football

Objective

To encourage and incentivise existing playing members to undergo referee education and attain experience in refereeing community matches, whilst remaining registered players.

Background

Across the Central Football Federation, the current referee population requires a constant injection of match officials who have experienced football in a community environment and therefore understand the nature of the community-level game.

By both providing an opportunity for players to significantly reduce their playing costs and by removing barriers to becoming a referee, we aim to encourage current players to be involved in the game in an additional role and therefore improve coverage of matches with an accredited match official.

Process

· The participant receives online and in-person training to become a fully accredited Level 1 official

· The participant receives a whistle, cards and suitable referee apparel

· Once a month the participant receives appropriate match fee reimbursements for games they have officiated. This is paid into their bank around the 20th of the month following the match.

· Once the participant completes 10 matches as a referee, they simply send proof of their Playing Fee payment to Central Football and they will then receive a 50% reimbursement of these fees

Eligibilty

Open to NEW match officials in their first year of being a referee.

For more information please e-mail Referee Manager Matt Wallace | Mattw @centralfootball.co.nz