Referee features are available if the tournament’s package includes the Referee Management module. Referees are managed by the organiser, tournament officers and referee managers; linking a referee profile to a TurnuvaGo account is done only by the organiser and tournament officers.
Adding a referee
With “Add new referee” on the Referees screen you create a referee profile with name, city / region, phone, e-mail and an optional photo. If the referee has a TurnuvaGo account, the organiser or a tournament officer links it in the “Linked user account” field: the account link is needed for the referee to receive notifications, see their assignments on their own screen and, when allowed, run live matches. Only the organiser and tournament officers can create, change or remove the link; a referee manager can add referees and edit their details but cannot change the account link. You can deactivate a referee with “Deactivate referee”; their past assignments are not deleted.
Assigning a referee to a match
- “Use referee assignment for matches” must be on in the Referee Settings on the Referees screen; you also set the default number of referees there. If the feature is turned off, the assignment fields are hidden and earlier assignments are not deleted.
- On the Fixtures screen you open the match’s window with “Schedule” (or “Referees” if you cannot schedule matches), choose the referee team on the “Referees” tab and select “Save referee team”; the same tab is also in the window opened with the gear button on the Live Match screen. After saving you return to the same match’s Referees tab.
- Once a match has finished, the Fixtures screen no longer shows the “Referees” button; the assigned team remains visible on the match card. If a finished match’s referee team needs correcting, use the “Referees” tab of the window opened with the gear button on the Live Match screen: tournament management can make this correction and a reason for the change is required.
- If the same referee is assigned to two matches whose times overlap, a warning is shown; you can still save after confirming that you have checked it. If a match time changes later and creates a clash, the schedule is saved; the clash appears on the Referees screen and stays until you resolve it.
- There is no automatic referee assignment.
The referee’s own screen
A referee with a linked account and an assignment sees the “My Assignments” page in the menu, which lists their upcoming assignments. If “Referees can run live matches” is on in the Referee Settings, the referee can also run the live flow of the match they are assigned to. Referee names are not shown on the public page.
Referee match report
- The referee match report is available if your package also includes the Discipline module. The assigned referee can write a report for the match; the report is optional, and showing a card is not required.
- You save the report as a draft and send it later; the main report cannot be changed once sent. New information is added as an “Addendum”.
- Tournament management can ask the assigned referee for a report in a disciplinary case. A referee cannot open a disciplinary case directly; they send a case request (see “How do cards, sanctions and discipline work?”).