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Michigan Referee Program / Referees / Upgrading

Upgrading Your Certification

If you desire to officiate the most competitive matches within Michigan and our region, you need to consider upgrading to a Regional referee.

We offer an informational session prior to our upgrade application windows to help share more information about the process. We share these via email and will post future dates on the website here, so check back.

You can also click the button below to learn more about upgrading and review informational slides from our prior workshop on upgrading.

LEARN MORE

Click on the button below to review U.S. Soccer Eligibility & Requirements as well as the required Fitness Test criteria.

REVIEW ELIGIBILITY
  • Will you be 18 years or older by December 31, 2026?
  • Have you been a U.S. Soccer licensed referee for two (2) consecutive years?
  • Have you completed your current Referee Certification requirements?
  • Can you PASS the FIFA Women’s Referee Fitness Test?
  • Taking into consideration the previous game experience for ONLY ADULT AMATEUR level U.S. Soccer, affiliated 11v11 soccer matches, AND those you will have officiated by December 31, 2026,
    • Will you have the experience as the center referee for 25 games and 15 as the assistant referee?
    • Youth games do not count toward this game count requirement.
    • If you need a sample match log to start/continue tracking your matches and have a file to submit: Click here

If your answer is YES to all of the above, and if you want upgrade to a Regional referee, please complete the following steps:

1

Submit an application.

SUBMIT

2

Email qualifying games to…

Joshua Abts – Mgr.RegionalRef@michiganrefs.org
(only include ADULT AMATEUR level matches)
Please note – High School, College, and scrimmages don’t count

3

Attend a fitness test.

There will be two opportunities:

1) Saturday July 26 2025
Hope Sports Complex
Open – 8am
Men’s – 9am
Women’s – 10am

2) April 2026 – TBD

You must complete a fitness test before your evaluations.

The deadline to submit your application to Upgrade to a Regional Referee is:

11:59PM, July 20, 2025.

Upgrade applications are subject to approval by the MRC upgrade committee.