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Becoming a referee, and your referee profile

A tournament organiser adds you as a referee. Scoryboard then adds a Referee segment to your profile switch, with its own bio and statistics.

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Written by Maab Saleem

A tournament organiser makes you a referee by adding you to one of their tournaments. Scoryboard then gives your profile a referee side, with its own bio and its own statistics.

Before you start

You need a Scoryboard account, and an organiser who is running a tournament. An organiser is the only person who can make you a referee.

How you become a referee

  1. Tell the organiser the email address your Scoryboard account uses.

  2. Ask them to add you as a referee on their tournament. On their side that is Participants, then Referees, then Add Referee. They fill in your name and that email address.

    The Add referee window on the Single referee tab. It has First name, Last name and Email fields, with Email outlined in red, and two switches: "Save for future tournaments" and "Allow referee to start and end matches".

  3. That is it. You are a referee as soon as they save. Open your profile to see it.

The email address has to match your account exactly. An organiser who types a different one creates a separate referee record, and your own profile stays as it was.

Your referee profile

  1. Open your own profile. The switch at the top right has gained a Referee segment, and your profile opens on it.

    The top of a player profile over a black banner. The name Rae KB sits at the bottom left. At the top right a blue pill switch is outlined in red, with a white Referee segment on the left and a smaller blue segment on the right.

  2. Select Football on the switch to see your player profile again. Each side holds its own bio, its own statistics and its own match list.

    The same profile banner with the switch outlined in red, now showing a blue Referee segment on the left and a white Football segment on the right.

How many sides you have depends on the sports you play. A football referee has two, Referee and Football. A referee who also plays padel has three: the switch reads Referee, Football and Padel.

Your profile opens on the referee side from now on, because being added as a referee makes Referee your default profile. You can change that under Select your default profile in Profile settings.

Add your referee bio

Your referee bio is separate from your player bio. Readers see it when your profile is on the referee side.

  1. Select your name at the top of the sidebar. The block opens and shows how many profile fields are still empty.

    The expanded sidebar block: an avatar, the name Rae KB, a truncated email address, "Edit User Profile", and a warning line "Complete your profile (3)" outlined in red above "Sign out".

  2. Select Complete your profile. Scoryboard takes you to Profile settings and jumps to the first field you have not filled in.

  3. Find Referee Bio under My Bio. It sits under your player bio and only referees have it.

    The My Bio section of Profile settings. A "Bio" box is empty with a yellow highlight and reads 0/150. Below it a "Referee Bio" box is empty, outlined in red, and also reads 0/150. To the left is the line "2 highlighted fields are still missing."

  4. Write your bio. You get 150 characters over five lines, and the counter under the box shows what you have used.

    The Referee Bio box holding the text "FA Level 1. Ten seasons of Sunday league. I keep the game moving and explain every decision." The counter below reads 92/150 and is outlined in red.

  5. Select Save Changes. Your bio now shows on the referee side of your profile, above your referee statistics.

    A referee profile. A MY BIO panel holds the saved bio. Below it six statistic tiles read MATCHES 1, RED CARD 0, YELLOW CARD 0, TOTAL FOULS 0, NO. OF LEAGUES 1 and AVERAGE RATING 0.0.

What your referee statistics count

MATCHES is the only tile that moves for a referee. It counts the matches you have been the referee on.

The card and goal tiles are your own playing figures. Refereeing does not add to them.

TOTAL FOULS stays at 0. Scoryboard does not record fouls.

AVERAGE RATING is what players have rated you after matches. See Rating a match, player, team or referee.

If it does not work

  • The switch has no Referee segment. Nobody has added you yet, or they used a different email address. Ask the organiser which address they typed. Look for the word Referee, not for the switch itself - every profile has a switch. A football-only account has one pill reading Football, and an account that plays padel has two, Football and Padel, whether or not anybody has made it a referee.

  • You are waiting for a message. Being a referee starts the moment the organiser saves. Open your profile to check.

  • There is no Referee Bio box in Profile settings. The box only appears once you are a referee. See the first point.

  • Your bio disappeared after you changed your photo. Save your photo first and your bio last. Saving a new photo on its own clears your bio. See Profile settings - what you can change.

  • You want to stop being a referee. Ask the organiser to remove you from the tournament.

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