New Zealand referee Matt Conger has held a lifelong dream of being involved in the biggest football event on the planet and with his appointment to officiate at the 2018…
Two OFC referees and three assistant referees will join the world’s greatest footballers in Russia in June after being included in the list of match officials for the 2018 FIFA…
With a constant shortage of referees in Oceania he says the opportunities for improvement are always there.“If you want to become a referee, there’s no shortage of games but there’s…
The Football Advisory Panel and the Technical Advisory Panel, with representatives from Oceania sitting on both, met at the Sofitel Hotel London Heathrow for meetings on Monday and Tuesday to…
OFC Referee Development Officer Mark Hester says while for OFC things like electronic scoreboards and communication kits are relatively new, on a global scale they’re technologies that have been around…
The course caters to the instructors of the top referees in each of OFC’s 11 Member Associations, with four FIFA instructors covering elements of technical and fitness instructing.OFC Head of…
OFC Futsal and Beach Soccer Development Officer Paul Toohey says with four FIFA Futsal Refereeing Courses on the calendar as well as the FIFA Futuro Refereeing Instructor Course, it shows…
Tupou Patia of Cook Islands, Finau Vulivuli of Fiji and New Zealand’s Anna-Marie Keighley have all been invited to attend the seminar, joining 40 fellow match officials from around the…
The courses not only gave the referees the opportunity to review the Laws of the game – but also to check the match officials’ fitness in a variety of ways….