There are many reasons to become one:

• Get Paid: earn good money to participate in a sport you love
• Flexible Schedule: provide your own availability to assignors to work around your busy schedule
• A New Way to be Part of the Game: continue to be involved in the game you love in ways other than playing or coaching
• Health and Fitness
• Challenge Yourself: becoming a referee is a rewarding process full of challenges and opportunities to advance to higher level and higher paying games
• Develop Life Skills: discipline, leadership, organization, communication, professionalism and confidence
• Improve our Sport: think you can do better than that other referee? Prove it!
• Travel: sign up for tournaments all over the state of Georgia and the country

For more information, check out the “Become a U.S. Soccer Referee” page on our website.

If you are currently a Georgia referee, please review the Grassroots Referee Recertification Requirements.

For general questions about the Georgia Soccer Referee Program, please contact Anne Wright at awright@georgiasoccer.org.