Community-driven project

Help build the world's most accurate referee dataset.

Referee.Observer is powered by people who care about refereeing. Our data comes from many sources, and it has to be validated and verified every single day to stay reliable. Join our team of volunteers and help keep it the best dataset anywhere.

37,457
matches
10,716
officials tracked
178
competitions
172
countries

How you can help

No coding required — just a passion for referees and accurate data.

Verify appointments

Cross-check referee, AR, fourth-official and VAR appointments against primary federation match sheets and bulletins.

Reconcile data

Spot and merge duplicate teams, officials and fixtures so stats stay clean and trustworthy.

Translate & transliterate

Help names read correctly across languages and scripts — English, Українська, Italiano and more.

Flag issues

Report gaps, suspicious entries or sources we should be watching for your league or country.

Where our data comes from

Federation match sheets Official appointment bulletins Competition press releases Trusted refereeing forums News & match reports Historical archives

Read more about how we work on our methodology and transparency pages.

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