The importance of recruitment as the annual feature was emphasized to enable the Referees Department to meet its target as envisaged in the Strategic Plan of the AIFF. The HORs were informed about the upgrading of the referees’ records in RASI to ease out and have more authentic records to have incorporated in the system.
On the other hand, 26 young Category-2 referees and asst. referees took part in a workshop in Gwalior from May 19-22, 2019. The referees were trained, analysed and minutely monitored for two years by the AFC Instructors to get them ready for the AFC Academy. Meanwhile, eight women referees will also join this group for the second phase of development training.