Keys To Referee is an e-learning and development platform that enables analysis, evaluation, tracking and assessment which is personalised for any referee at any level… It is not about the STATS for us – It’s about development. We aim to enhance the learning, knowledge and understanding of match officials across all sports ensuring their continued progress to develop and raise standards for all sports.
If you are willing to learn, we are happy to help. We have an expert team of former elite referees that offer feedback and advice using the analysis, evaluation, and development platform regarding your performances and decisions made. We want you to develop regardless of level or involvement in the game.
You can become a member for free and start a discussion with our team of experts. You can ask us for advice, send in your refereeing or football clips for discussions and become part of our daily and weekly discussions through our social media. We want to provide advice through different media forms to help all referees. Sign up for free now.
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THE BENEFITS
Analysis & Evaluation
Full tracking, the full devaluation and analysis of decisions made with action plans for development.
Analysis of Performance
Analysis software used for professional development for replays of each decision made and committed. Increased contact with coaches / experts.
Tracking results & stats
Implement training plans in advance following progress and up skill referees.
Develop & Progress
Our portal enables you to evaluate and assess performances over time to help Referee development
Evaluate and review the professional development
Implement training plans in advance following progress and up skill referees. Create action plans and unique pathways.
Referees Courses
Courses are being added all the time, Laws of the game, Sin Bins and very importantly Safeguarding. Safeguarding courses are written by one of the UK’s leading experts.
Review perfromances
Review their own game or a colleagues. Real-life scenarios. Online observation and assessment.
Consultancy
Our experts can help build the structure you are looking for: Grow and develop from the very top to grassroots of each sport. Raising standards at each and every level.
An Application to test Referees
Check out our Be the VAR App that tests your knowledge and understanding of the laws of the game
OUR LATEST BLOGS, LATEST REFEREE NEWS AND STORIES
First Ever Game
Rookie Referee’s first gameThat’s it, I’ve completed my course, and all the feelings with this (read here) it’s now about getting my first game, which I really didn’t have to wait long for. My support team had already alerted the local league about...
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Soccer Six football – A walk down memory lane
Some years ago, when English clubs were not qualifying for the European Competitions with the regularity that they are today, or the F.A. Premier League had not been thought about, the football visionaries felt that an indoor tournament for Football League clubs was...
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Welcome to Refereeing by Rookie Referee
Here is my first blog about my experiences in becoming a Referee over the last year. As a child I never participated in football however I have a younger brother who plays in a grassroots team and we also started to follow a local championship team. After watching my...
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Chelsea v Tottenham, 1996. A special London Derby
Monday was always the day of the week when Premier League referees were notified of their next appointments, so you can imagine how excited I was when appointed to the London ‘derby’ at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, way back on 26th...
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Referee, female & only 5ft 3, does it make a difference?
Referee, female & only 5ft 3, does it make a difference? Can you imagine it, two semi-professional teams, paying crowd and a 5 ft 3 female referee is walking the teams onto the pitch, ball underarm with two assistants normally towering me, and the captains always...
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Thoughts on the application of the denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee During a game the referee must always have on his radar when a team go on the attack monitoring the possibility of a DOGSO (Denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity) offence. The referee needs to...
A look back and how things have changed.
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee. With no live football on television, l was recently invited to appear on Talksport’ s Hawksbee and Jacobs show. This was to discuss a recent showing on television of the 1979 FA Cup game between...
Advice on applying the use of advantage
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee. I was a referee who just loved to apply advantage in order to keep the game flowing at pace and to allow players the opportunity to use their skills against the opposition. The more experience of my...
Referee Body Language
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee One area of your performance that I want you to give consideration to is your Body Language which is the art of non-verbal communication Some years ago, I was surprised when a Sports Psychologist in a...
Warm-up procedure prior to kick off
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee. When I appointed Prof Matt Weston to become the Sports Scientist for the PGMOL he rightly took control of all the training and put in place regimes to affect a lifestyle change in our match officials....
The movement patterns of top referees
This blog is proudly created By Keith Hackett for Keys to Referee Sir Stanley Rous who became the sixth President of FIFA made a major contribution to football by rewriting the Laws of the game in1938, making them simpler and easier to understand. He was also the...
The Carrington v Webb Ref debate: Controlling yourself before others!
A discussion by two experts on controlling yourself before you can control others Referees in football, at all levels, are often the subject of great scrutiny, criticism and abuse. In this article, Keys to Referee asks two authors about referees in football the...
Controlling Yourself Before You Can Control Others
Recall a time when, during a football match, you saw a player (or players) lose their composure and control. One type of incident that comes to mind is the so-called ‘mass brawl’; a cluster of players, frustrated, angry and primed for physical competition acting in a...
While We Are Social Distancing, Referees Should Think About the ‘Social Payoff’
Sports are a social situation. They take place with others and in front of others. This is part of their appeal; players enjoy the camaraderie, fans quench their thirst for tribal belonging and coaches satisfy desires to influence others. Hence self-isolation is...
Referees, Confidence and Arrogance
Referees, Confidence and Arrogance To understand more about refereeing I decided to put my money where my mouth was and become a qualified official. I enjoyed every minute of the training and meeting not only my fellow trainees but my assessors too. Their experience...
Ref Lounge Episode 6 and Bonus Material
Ref Lounge Episode 6 Part 1 discussing Match Day 18 in English Premier League Ref Lounge Episode 6 Part 2 discussing Match Day 18 in English Premier League Can Referees give two bites of the cherry? The ball hits Referee - Drop Ball, is this law correct for the...
The future of VAR, Version 2
by Ahmet Guvener @guvenersoccer, When I set down to write this article and name it “The Future of VAR,” my computer reminded me that I had written another article with same name about two years ago. Two years ago, the VAR system was at best an infant;...
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