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Procedure for not being allocated a referee

or

referee call-off

 

CAROL BAXTER MATCH Secretary

 

Aberdeen and District Juvenile FA

 

  1. If your fixture appears in the fixture list or Evening Express with no referee and you are the home team, you should make your courtesy phone call to your opponents and discuss what you would both want to do in the event of the Association being unable to supply you with a referee. Similarly, if your referee calls off I will let you know and then we follow the procedure above and below.
  2. I will call you on the morning of the match sometime around 9.30am and I will advise you that I still haven’t managed to get you a referee. I will then ask you whether you want to play or not.
  3. If you tell me you don’t want to play without a referee, then I will give you permission to put the match off and advise you to call your opponents and let them know, too.
  4. If I manage to acquire a referee for your match you will be notified as soon I have the referee’s name and details.
  5. Please do not call me to ask me if I have a referee for you, as I would call you as soon as I had one.
  6. Even if you have been allocated a referee you should make your courtesy calls promptly as we have found out this week that referees are still on holiday but we were not aware of this. This added to the number of matches with no referees.
  7. If you call your referee and he can’t do his game, get in touch with me immediately.
  8. Currently, the best chance of getting a referee is if one of our own matches goes off. If your match goes off, for whatever reason, please notify me promptly, particularly if you have a referee, so that your referee can be transferred to another match and prevent it from going off, too.
  9. The above procedure should be followed by Sunday teams too. The only difference being that the decision to put the match off would be taken earlier, possibly even putting the match off on the Saturday evening if lengthy travel was involved with a 10.30am kick-off.   
  10.  Remember! You do not have to play if you are not allocated a referee. You can play if the two teams agree to play and you referee it yourselves or you can ask anyone you want to referee it for you.