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Whether you are a local referee's society or a National Governing Body looking for a scalable solution, the WhosTheRef.com referee management website delivers a practical, easy-to-use, easy-to-access online resource for managing and developing your officials. 

  • Import initial data via spreadsheets
  • Set up one or multiple organisations with varying permissions for different categories of user in each
  • Referees input their own availability - you can choose to default to available or default to not-available
  • Appointers assign match officials to each fixture - no limit to the number or type of officials
  • Officials check / confirm their appointments via email / text / online. The appointers are notified of any knock-backs; the team(s) are notified of confirmed appointments
  • Automatic reminders of games that are not fulfilled

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For individual societies, whostheref.com provides all the tools to manage:

  • appointments
  • availability
  • training / conference management
  • grades
  • fitness
  • communication
  • assessments
  • much, much more !

For National Governing Bodies, whostheref.com provides all of the above but in addition allows you to monitor the performance of referees coming up through the ranks. Strict "permissions" control who has access to what data.

National Governing Bodies

Click the Scottish Thistle to visit the SRU website. Opens in a new window.Scottish Rugby have been using WhosTheRef.com as their referee assigning website since 2009 when they upgraded from an American competitor. Former International Referee Jim Fleming: "It was a godsend to go into partnership with WTR after our previous provider went into liquidation. We in Scotland have discovered that not only is WTR very people friendly in its application, but that it ticks all the boxes we require to make the appointment of our match officials a straightforward task. WTR has been welcomed not only by all our match official but also by the clubs we serve. Rather than being a "fait accompli" WTR continues to work with the SRU to provide additional enhancements to cover amongst other things as report writing and disciplinary matters." J Fleming July 2010.

Jim is currently the referees' High Performance Manager for the Scottish Rugby Union.

ECB ACO

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Our sister product www.whostheumpire.com is the chosen product of the English Cricket Board to manage the appointment and development of English cricket umpires. We are working closely with the ECB to provide an assessment reporting system for the 2011 season which will enable the Lords offices to monitor the performance and progress of every umpire. This system also includes tools for umpires to report back on teams hospitality and provision of facilities.

Individual Societies

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The WhosTheRef.com referee assigning website is as equally suited for assisting individual referee socieities as it is National Governing Bodies. Exactly the same software can be configured to manage any size organisation for any sport in any country.

It is even multi-lingual, so different users in the same organisation can choose their prefered language.

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