Free Officiating Resources

Free Officiating Resources

Download any of the items listed below absolutely FREE. As an added bonus, you’ll be opted in to receive valuable weekly tips on successful officiating and updates from our website.

Referee Rules Challenge

Fast, fun, interactive quizzes created by the editors of Referee Magazine to challenge your rules knowledge and help you stay sharp, before, during and after your sport season. We’ve partnered with renowned quiz-maker “The Rules R” to provide you with an easy and entertaining experience. Good luck!

Weekly Referee.com Review

Weekly collection of articles, quizzes, downloads, and more from Referee.com. The best in officiating delivered directly to you.

Football Officiating A-Z Free Email Series

Officiating football isn’t easy. Success requires dedication and concentration… you can’t phone it in. That’s why we’ve collected some of the best tips & techniques we could find into an email series that won’t overload you. Each week we’ll send you football officiating tips corresponding to two letters of the alphabet. 26 letters = 13 weeks. 

The Football Officiating A to Z Email Series is just enough to get you thinking football weekly, but not so much you forget it the second you’re done reading it. 


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Next Level Football Officiating Free Email Series

  • Go Beyond the Basics. Every situation in a football game has basic requirements to officiate it correctly, but you can move beyond them. Advice and guidance can fine tune your skills, increase your accuracy and make calling any situation easier.
  • We’ve collected some of the best advanced tips & techniques we could find on every part of officiating football into a weekly email series that will keep you thinking football all the way until the season begins.e beyond them. Advice and guidance can fine tune your skills, increase your accuracy and make calling any situation easier.
  • Each week for the next 12 weeks we’ll send you football officiating tips that won’t overload you, but will make you better and more prepared for the upcoming season.

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How Decisive Are You?

Decisiveness, judgment and confidence are some of the “must-haves” at the highest levels of sports officiating, but they’re also necessary traits at all levels of officiating. Those three traits are tightly tied together in the sense that you can’t truly be decisive without good judgment and the appearance of confidence.


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Mental Performance A-Z Guide

Officiating is often more mental than physical. The demands on your memory, decision-making, judgment and reactions can be extreme.

We don’t focus on mental performance and how to improve it as much as we should, but it’s as vital as studying the rule book or attending association meetings.

Use these simple but effective points of advice to make sure you’re operating at peak efficiency each time to you step on the court, pitch or field.


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Find Your Officiating Personality

Do you know what type of official you are? What kinds of officials are on your crew? This officiating personality quiz will help you find out.

The decisions you make and how you make them can help you define your officiating personality. You’ll be guided through some routine and some difficult situations and your choices will give you insight into yourself and the officials you work with.

Learn how to maximize your success and where you can improve to be come the best official you can be.


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Next Level Baseball Umpiring 8-Week Free Email Series

  • Go Beyond the Basics. Every situation in a Baseball game has basic requirements to officiate it correctly, but there is always more to learn. Advice and guidance can fine tune your skills, increase your accuracy and make calling any situation easier.
  • We’ve collected some of the best tips & techniques we could find on every part of umpiring Baseball into a weekly email series that will keep you thinking baseball all the way until the season begins.
  • Each week for the next 8 weeks we’ll send you baseball umpiring tips that won’t overload you, but will make you better and more prepared for the upcoming season.

Enter your name and email address to start Next Level Baseball Umpiring 8-Week Free Email Series and join the Referee.com email list to receive valuable tips and officiating related information.

Next Level Softball Umpiring 9-Week Free Email Series

  • Go Beyond the Basics. Every situation in a softball game has basic requirements to officiate it correctly, but you can move beyond them. Advice and guidance can fine tune your skills, increase your accuracy and make calling any situation easier.
  • We’ve collected some of the best tips & techniques we could find on every part of umpiring softball into a weekly email series that will keep you thinking softball all the way until the season begins.
  • Each week for the next 9 weeks we’ll send you softball officiating tips that won’t overload you, but will make you better and more prepared for the upcoming season.

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Next Level Basketball Officiating 10-Week Free Email Series

  • Go Beyond the Basics. Every situation in a basketball game has basic requirements to officiate it correctly, but you can move beyond them. Advice and guidance can fine tune your skills, increase your accuracy and make calling any situation easier.
  • We’ve collected some of the best tips & techniques we could find on every part of officiating basketball into a weekly email series that will keep you thinking basketball all the way until the season begins.
  • Each week for the next 10 weeks we’ll send you basketball officiating tips that won’t overload you, but will make you better and more prepared for the upcoming season.

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18 Tips For Beginning Officials

You love sports, you want to be involved, but this officiating thing looks hard right? It doesn’t have to be. 

Referee’s  editors have pulled together 18 of the most useful tips to get you thinking right and prepared to succeed your first time out. 

18 Tips for Beginning Officials is a perfect primer for those with little to no experience.


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The Guide To Game Time

You go to meetings and study the rules but when game time approaches it’s your responsibility to get yourself ready.

Pregame preparation, site surveying, meeting with coaches and administrators and much more is covered in this great guide that will help you set yourself, and your crewmates, up for success every game.

The Guide to Game Time will get you ready to go out there and work a great game.


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Get The Word Out

A Recruiting Guide For Local Associations


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How To Keep Good Officials

Retention Strategies In Officiating


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Mentoring In Officiating

A Practical Guide


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