This form is for FIRST TIME Regional Referees for 2027.

We want to provide you information you need to prepare for that level.

First - See if you are eligble.

To be eligible as New Regional you must have held Referee License for 2026 & 2025.

Now download the Regional Checklist- Click Here

(This is currently for 2026 but typically remains the same. Review the evaluation and fitness requirments.)

What you should be doing during this time now...

Evaluations

Find your three qualifying games to get evaluated on. Get those evaluations requested. These should be done now before the end of the year.

To Request- Click here

Those evaluation reports will then be entered into US Soccer RefEval for you to view later.

RefEval Portal- Click Here

You will use your US Soccer login there. For the userguide - click here

Have these done & ready by December

Fitness Test 

Train, train TRAIN.... for the fitness test!!

Find a school or park nearby and train weekly to reach the times below:

Repeated Sprint Ability Test (RSA)
Category 1 - 6 x40m Sprints with Maximum of 6.4 seconds per sprint
Category 3 - 6 x40m Sprints with Maximum of 6.6 seconds per sprint

• Interval Test (40 x 75m run / 25m walk intervals)
Category 1 - 17 seconds per 75m run and 20 seconds per 25m walk

Click here for the Male Regional Interval Audio test to practice with while you run.

Category 3 - 17 seconds per 75m run and 24 seconds per 25m walk

click here for the Female Regional Interval Audio test to practice with while you run.

This will help you get used to listening for the sounds during the test.

Good Work! You are taking that first step to moving up in your license level!