Over the past few years, the focus of Referee been on referee development, and offering all our referees the opportunities to improve as match officials. In 2017 we created our Referee Academy, which has quickly become of Europe’s top refereeing training programs, thanks to the work of committed individuals within the professional games. Thanks to the great feedback received for this program, we have decided to expand the means of our development programs to include even more referees, and this is why we started our development group in 2019 and are starting a range of new programs in 2022. See all the details below.