Referee Home Page

New referees should start with a yellow jersey and then acquire other colors (black, red, blue) as they progress. The normal attire is to also wear black shorts and black socks. Shirts must be tucked in. In addition, new referees must have a stop watch, whistle, flip coin, yellow and red cards, and a record book. Eventually the referee will want to purchase a set of flags.

Uniforms can be purchased online at Official Sports or several other web businesses or locally at soccer supply stores such as Soccer Plus in Livonia.

Game Day Information:

MASA uses theArbiter.net for assigning our referees. Each referee has a login to access their schedule, they can block days, accept or decline assignments, and print out their schedule. theArbiter.net even e-mails a reminder to the referee 3 days before the game.

Currently the Assignor is Ryan Held, Director of Referees. Dale Stringham, Director of Technical Services, is technical support for the project.

Click on theArbiter.net logo for access:

Powerpoint overview for officials-->officials.ppt
Powerpoint overview for contacts-->contacts.ppt
Powerpoint viewer software-->ppviewer.exe

Need Ref equipment?

Go to Honig's website at www.honigs.com or Official Sports at www.officialsports.com. Remember, we have some stuff at the clubhouse.

MASA 2006 Updated Rules:

Here are the rules.

These are the MASA modifications to FIFA Laws of the Game.

United States Soccer Federation. Go to the home page and click on "Referees", then on "Laws of the Game" for more information.

Want to ask a Referee a question? Are you a Ref who wants to know more? ASK THE REF.COM

The Watch and the Whistle is a great place to learn about being a referee. Chris Seiwald discusses not only the laws of the game, but how you, as a referee, should act, dress, and conduct yourself.