Detailed instructions for becoming a US Soccer referee are on the website of the MA State Referee Committee (MSRC) at https://www.massref.net/becoming-a-referee/steps-to-become-referee/. The schedule of entry level courses is at https://central.massref.net/courseofferings.cfm. The first class a potential referee would need to take is the “New referee orientation” one, which is often offered weekly. That class is two hours long and will help explain the rest of the online and in-person/on-field courses that he’ll need to take to become a referee. Most of those are done through MSRC but some are done online through the US Soccer Learning Center.
When a referee gets close to finishing the various trainings, they will need to register as a referee with BAYS and apply to work in Medway. Instructions for that process are at https://bays.org/content/referee-application-create-referee-account. The slowest part of that is the league processing the tax forms and direct deposit forms, so it is important to get those submitted promptly during that process. Once those are processed and the referee shows up in the MSRC database of certified referees, our travel referee coordinator will be able to approve their application and start getting their games.
Our travel referee coordinator typically assigns games one month at a time.
One very important thing when registering with MSRC, with US Soccer, and with BAYS, is that the referee should use their own email address as the primary address on their accounts and then list a parent’s email as the secondary one.
If you have any questions throughout this process please don’t hesitate to ask by reaching out to our Travel Referee Coordinator.
Pay information for BAYS is at https://bays.org/content/referee-payment-information. It’s considerably higher than intramural and he can expect anywhere from 1 to 4 games on each Saturday that he makes himself available to referee.
