Respect the Referee

Referees play a vital role in our games and without them we would have no matches. It is essential to remember that they are human beings and deserve your respect as you would want for yourself or your family members. Do they make mistakes? Every makes some mistakes including players and mentors but we should be as quick to highlight the correct decisions they make and positive impacts they have on our game.

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Referee Courses Details

Grab Your Whistle is our Referee Education Programme. Through the Grab your Whistle courses we aim to increase the number of new referees, and in particularly female referees, who officiate at our games. Participants must be 17 years of age or over. There is also a Go Games Referee Course available for participants from 15 years but this will only allow to referee up to under 12 non-competitive small sided games.

GO GAMES – Basic Refereeing

This course is as a self-led course HERE

Further information on courses HERE


Referees

Match Officials

Referee Reports

Reporting to CODA

(Complaints, Objections, Disciplinary and Appeals

Referee duty is to report to the CODA officer in their County, Province or National depending what level of game they are refereeing at any sending off, Red Cards or incidents of verbal abuse.

The referee has 48 hours to report the incident to the CODA officer, this is evidence can  be provided via e-mail, photograph and the must be followed up with Official match report. 

CODA EMAIL: coda.roscommon@lgfa.ie