Assignment Rules and Process

As noted above, MSC uses Reftown.com’s system to handle all assignments of games for all of its events (Recreational, Academy, and Select/SCCL). The key to a successful referee program and ensuring continued assignment of games is clear communication. So, please be sure that your availability is as up to date as possible and, if you are registered with multiple organizations, that you have set your availability accordingly. To that end, be sure that your communications preferences are set up in Reftown in a manner that will allow you to easily see offered assignments and respond to the same.



The goal is to have all referees booked for games at least 5 days in advance. Each club referee should set his or her availability at least weekly. Once you have been offered a game, you will have 24 hours to accept the game – in ability to access your account, failure to check your email or text messages, will not be considered a valid reason for failure to respond to questions, offers of assignments, or receive important game messages.

Game Day Expectations and Equipment

As any seasoned veteran referee will tell you, professionalism, in both appearance and manner, goes a long way to ensuring credibility and confidence in your abilities as a referee with players, coaches, and fans. To ensure such professionalism and preparedness, please view and follow the game day expectations linked here. Also outlined on this page are the equipment requirements for referees. These items can be purchased at a number of soccer and referee websites including soccer.com, refereestore.com and epicsports.com. We recommend a yellow referee jersey as your primary color as we avoid using that color for our Rec teams; please refrain from red or blue referee jerseys as those are the primary colors of our club.   PLEASE WEAR YELLOW OR GREEN FOR A REFEREE JERSEY.

Format Rules and Reporting Processes

Each league and age group have different rules, which can be viewed HERE. Additionally, Sandra will be able to answer any questions as to format. Finally, for Academy and Select games, MSC or AFC Middle GA coaches will be able to answer any game format questions.

Game Reports - Academy

For Academy, games, the center referee must complete a matchday report in Reftown (the system shoudl prompt you to complete this after the game).  All red cards must be submitted to Sandra and Adrian within 24 hours.

Game Reports - Select

For SCCL, there is a gameday sheet that will be provided by the Team Managers or coaches for each team. This sheet must be completed by the Center Referee and signed by the Assistant Referees. Then signed by the coaches (Unless the match is so contentious than signing is impractical). The center should then take a picture of the sheet and then text of email it to Sandra. All red cards must be submitted to Sandra and Adrian within 24 hours. Then please select the Match Report on Reftown (the system should prompt you to complete this after the game).

The process for reporting various discipline issues varies depending upon the league, so please click here for specific instructions for each competition. Score reporting is done by team managers and so you have no obligation to report scores. For SCCL matches, there are various paperwork requirements that must be completed, which are explained in the Rules and How to Report Discipline Issue section.

Pay Structure and Processes

Here are the rates that referees will be paid as of February 1, 2024.