The AFC Referees Committee has approved at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the criteria for the appointment of Women’s officials in the preliminary and group stages of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup season. Prospective candidates must be a candidate for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, achieve a high-performance …
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The two-year AFC Referee Academy Intermediate programme kicked off with its first of eight modules at the AFC House on Wednesday, November 14. 35 referees from the 2017 Batch are among the 86 percent of participants that completed the Introductory Module last September and will be divided into two groups …
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37 referees from the 2018 batch kicked off their four-year AFC Referee Academy programme with the Introductory Module I at the AFC House on Thursday, November 8. The aspiring elite referees began their five-day module with back-to-back practical sessions on fitness and technicality, before diving in on theoretical topics such …
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Mizoram Football Association will host an All India Football Federation organised Referee Development Course in Aizawl from November 19-22, 2018. Current referees as well as aspiring referees are welcomed to participate in the course. The AIFF will send two referee instructors to conduct the course, which will be a refresher …
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UEFA and European referees are hard at work preparing for the introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) in UEFA competitions from next season. At a four-day course in Madrid, a group of referees with limited experience of VAR in their own countries took part in intensive theoretical and practical sessions, …
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The Football Association of Odisha (FAO) is going to conduct general Referee Examinations from November 15 to 18, 2018 in Cuttack. The interested candidates who aspire to pursue a career as a Football Referee may apply for this entry level examination for CAT-5 only and all those who are in …
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The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) today announced that Mark Geiger, two-time FIFA World Cup veteran and 2014 CONCACAF Referee of the Year, will lead the CONCACAF referee team assigned to work the AFC Champions League return-leg semifinal in …
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43 football and 18 futsal referees are set to take the first step in their journey to become elite referees as they gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, October 16 for the 2018 AFC Referees Recruitment courses happening concurrently. The three-day course, which is a prelude to the AFC …
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The AFC referees department invited two of India’s FIFA elite referees – CR Srikrishna (Tamil Nadu) and Tejas Nagvenkar (Goa) for the elite panel selection. Both of them have already cleared the AFC practical evaluation in 2017/18. Both of them attended the course at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 6-9, …
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At the end of the first-ever VAR Instructor course put on by FIFA in Madrid this past week, legendary referee and current Chairman of FIFA’s Refereeing Committee Pierluigi Collina spoke with FIFA.com about the importance of the event, the state of VAR and where the technology might go in the …
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