We’ll try not to get too long-winded about this.  In Albuquerque, for entry level referees on adult league games (ASL) and youth league games other than high school or AYSO, you go to an entry level referee clinic staged by the New Mexico Soccer Referee Association.  We’ll come back to AYSO and high school after we address how you get to be a referee for our games.

  

The United States Soccer Federation (“USSF”) has overall authority for the training and assessment of soccer referees.  The State Referee Committee (“SRC”) includes the following positions:

• Chairman
• State Referee Administrator
• State Youth Referee Administrator
• State Director of Referee Assessment
• State Director of Referee Instruction
• Registrar
• Treasurer
• Director of Upgrade Program
• NMYSA Representative  
• NMYSA President (ex-officio)

  The SRC is charged with training, retaining, assessing and promoting soccer referees and programs in New Mexico.  You can find those district breakdowns and further information on the NMSRA website at http://www.nmsra.org/Default.htm.

 

 If you have a child playing in AYSO, they run a completely separate referee program and you can find out more about that by going to your particular AYSO region in the local soccer links area of our website.

 

 

 If you’re interested in becoming a high school soccer referee, you can visit New Mexico Activities Association at http://www.nmact.org/.