Referee Support Program
Calgary West Soccer Club, like many other soccer clubs in Calgary, has experienced in a decline in the number of referees that it is able to recruit and retain from year to year. One of the common reasons for this is the abuse suffered by the younger referees especially. In order to increase the number of referees that are available and in order to better support our referees, Calgary West Soccer is continuing to implement its referee support program including:
- Coach - Referee Education Workshop - One team coach from each team must attend a Referee Education Workshop.
- Each team must also select one or more persons to become the Field Marshall (CMSA) Referee Liaison (ICHL) Volunteer (download the Parent Referee Liaison Volunteer Role description), who is responsible for:
- Attending one Referee Education Workshop that is organized by CWSC.
- Wearing the green (ICHL) or orange (CMSA) armband that is provided with your team equipment so that you are visible to the referee and other parents.
- Talking to the referee after the game and make note of any concerns or compliments.
- Filling out a report after each game and email it to the necessary coordinators. The report Download the Referee Liaison Report.
- Parent Trained Referees – We are trying to recruit parents to be trained referees.
- ICL parent referees will be trained by experienced referees in a 1 day clasroom workshop, with a second day on the field.
- CMSA parent referees will need to take the ASA Referee Education Courses to become fully certified to referee community level games.
- For both ICL and CMSA games, parents will be paid the going rates or can work off their volunteer fee as follows:
2010 Rates
ICHL CMSA
U8 $13
U10 $16 $17
U12 $22 $23
U14 $28 $29
U16 $40
U16/18 $35
Referee Education Workshops
Please register for the any of the workshops online under your member account by clicking here. Once you log in, go to registrations and select "New Registration", enter the registrant name and choose from the drop down menu which session you prefer. Follow the instructions from there on.
Note: Teams that do not have a coach and referee liaison/field marshall attend one of the workshops will not be assigned a referee for their games.
May 3, Monday CMSA Coach/Parent 6:30-8:30 pm (competitive)
May 4, Tuesday CMSA Coach/Parent 6:30-8:30 pm (competitive)
May 5, Wednesday ICHL Coach/Parent 6:30-8:30 pm (recreational)
May 6, Thursday CMSA Coach/Parent 6:30-8:30 pm (competitive)
May 8, Saturday ICHL Coach/Parent 10:30 am - 12:30 (recreational)
May 8, Saturday CMSA Coach/Parent 1-3 pm (competitive)
All sessions will be held in the Brentwood Co-op Auditorium.
General Information
Download the General Referee Information for CMSA Coaches
Download the General Referee Information for ICHL Coaches
1. The referee's word is FINAL. In the spirit of being good role models for our players, let's reserve our comments (even if it is a bad call).
2. Please give reassuring and positive feedback to the referee. In fact, you may consider having all your players go over after the game and thank the referee - this creates a real sense of respect for referees on the part of the players.
3. If a referee does not "show up" for one of your games it is important that the referee liaison parent on your team emails the referee coordinator and payment coordinator on the same day.
4. It is also important that you let us know if you have cancelled a game so that this information can be passed onto the scheduled referee. If we are not told of the cancellation and the referee shows up to the field, he/she will have to be paid. (This can become very expensive for the Club).
5. When you reschedule a cancelled game please email the referee coordinator as soon as you can so that there is enough time to find a referee.
6. Please remember that many of our referees are new refs and are youngsters themselves. This is a new learning experience for them as well.
IMPORTANT: ANY TEAM RECEIVING A BAD REPORT FOR REFEREE ABUSE WILL NOT HAVE A REFEREE SCHEDULED FOR THEIR NEXT GAME. THERE WILL BE NO WARNINGS DURING THE SEASON, AND NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE .
7. All of the referees have taken a 1-2 day classroom based training course. The new referees have not yet had a chance to practice what they learned.
Thank you and have a great season.
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ICL Referee Assigning Protocol
1.Referee assigning protocol:
There is some confusion as to the referee assignment situation with CWSC ICL coaches and parents unsure of who assigns refs for which days of play. CWSC wishes to clarify this so that coaches and parents do not just assume it is CWSC that is not providing referees. In fact CWSC has been fairly successful in supplying referees to the ICL games we are supposed to be assigning refs to. Here is the referee assignment protocol CWSC follows in coordination with other ICL organizers including Edgemont, Bowness and Norwest (who supply refs on other specifed fields and game days):
In order for any of the teams (u10-U16/u18) to be assigned a ref by CWSC:
1. The teams have to be playing on a field in Tuscany, Ranchlands, Arbour Lake and Hawkwood.
2. It has to be on the one day that we have agreed to take responsibility for.
For U10G, we assign on Mondays, but again only if you play on one of the fields above. If not, then one of the other organizing bodies with responsibility for that field, assigns the referee.
For U10B, we assign for games on Tuesdays, if you are playing on a field specified above.
For U12-U18 - although there are 2 games a week, we are only scheduling a ref for one game a week. However there may be a shortage of referees so coaches are instructed that if there is a ref, play a game. If there is no ref, practice.
The protocol we follow is:
U12-U14 Boys games will have CWSC assigned refs on Thursdays, again only on the fields specified above.
U12-U14 Girls games wil have CWSC assigned refs on Mondays, again only on the fields specified above.
Mixed League games will have a CWSC assigned referee on Thursdays, again only on the fields specified above.
For example if the U14 B CWSC team 2 was playing in Hawkwood on a Thursday night, we would provide the ref. If this same team was scheduled to be in Edgemont on a Thursday night, then Edgemont would be responsible for providing the ref.
Remember, in ICL, refs are scheduled according to the location of the field and this year the day of the week. Last year, we scheduled refs on the fields 2x a week, this year only 1x a week. Regardless, we do not look at who is playing there. Two Norwest teams could be playing in Hawkwood and CWSC would provide the ref.
Hope this helps to explain where and when CWSC assigns referees to your games. So if you are not playing on one of our fields, or not on a specified referee game day, you will not have a referee assigned by CWSC. If you are on a specified referee assigned game day, but not on one of our fields, then another organization should be assigning you a referee. If they do not, CWSC has not ability to change that.