The Hub gives each referee their games, their check-in and their coaching notes on their phone. It gives venue staff a live board that says who needs attention. And it gives the program a feedback loop that reaches the referee the same night, plus the numbers a director has never had.
Built with the Colorado Soccer Association referee program. In use every weekend, 2,800 referees.Nothing here is a mock-up. This is the order things happen in Colorado on a Saturday, and who sees what.
Games pulled from the assigning platform overnight. Kickoff countdown, field, teams, who else is on the crew, the rules for that league or tournament, and a map to the venue. In Spanish if that's what they chose.
No QR codes, no table. The site coordinator sees the name turn green on the board. A referee who hasn't checked in turns gold 30 minutes before kickoff and red at 15.
The referee taps Running late and a time. The coordinator acknowledges it from the board, the referee sees the acknowledgement, and the open slot is listed under Needs attention until someone covers it.
The referee coach's phone shows every game at the venue and who's on it. One note per referee, written in the moment. The referee gets a heads-up that a coach is at their field.
Notes are tidied for tone and clarity by AI, then every one is read by the Director of Referee Development before release. Flagged notes can be rewritten; nothing goes out unreviewed.
The note lands on the referee's phone, on their card, in their language. The program sees that it was read. The next weekend the coach can see what the last coach wrote.
Coordinators and coaches file their day from the phone. Payroll by venue, by date range or by person prints from one screen.
Venue staff don't scan a list of 60 games. The board does that, and shows the five things that need a person right now.
Tap a name and you get their card: phone number, a Text button with the message already written, their games today, their coaching history. Minors show the guardian's contact instead. Nobody's location is tracked.
One app, one sign-in with an emailed code, one database you own. Each person sees the screens their role unlocks.
Games, countdown, check-in, running late, the rules for each competition, the crew, coaching notes, the fitness test sign-up and your season's numbers. Works on iOS and Android as a home-screen app, in English or Spanish, and is built to go easy on the battery for people who are outside all day.
Every venue and every crew, live. Needs attention first, then the full board. Bulletins to referees. Help calls. Weather. Incident reports. Protection alerts for minors.
Who's at my venue, who hasn't had feedback this season, one note per referee written on the phone. Coaches see each other's released notes, so the fourth note builds on the third.
Every note cleaned by AI and read by a person before release. Flagged notes are rewritten or held. Coverage: who has worked, who has been seen, who has read their notes.
A referee requests a formal evaluation from their game screen, for maintenance or an upgrade. The evaluator writes it in the same app; it counts toward the referee's record.
Fifteen years of registration from the Learning Center exports: referees by year, first-year versus returning, who comes back after a break, retention, age, gender, experience, compliance, and where referees live on a map with the fields pinned. Season numbers update live.
Events, their venues, rules pages and alert emails. Fitness tests, classes and clinics with sign-up, capacity and a roster. A bulletin goes out the moment a session is created.
The FIFA test on one sheet: six sprints, the interval run by run with the pacer playing from the instructor's phone, CODA for assistant referees. Pass only when every part passes. Print or save the PDF. The referee gets a badge.
Coordinators and coaches file hours from the phone. Payroll by venue, date range or person; edit a report after filing; print.
Laws of the Game, signals, procedures, career paths, the fitness standards with audio, and each competition's rules on its own page. Offline once opened.
Every referee from the Learning Center, matched to the assigning platform's names. Titles and roles. The list of who hasn't registered for next year, with emails ready to copy and a CSV for the assignors.
Registration tracked week by week through the renewal season. The Hub asks each referee to renew from their own screen, and stops asking the day their new license shows up.
This is Colorado's real chart, from the State of the program screen. Every year's roster is made of three groups. The program holds at 2,900 only because 1,200 new referees arrive each year to replace the ones who leave.
That last number is why the Hub asks every referee to renew from their own phone, and why the coaching loop exists: a referee who got a note from a coach in October is one who feels like someone noticed.
The Hub runs on your data, in your name, with your badge in the corner. Colorado's is the first; the next one takes weeks, not a season.
Export your referees from the US Soccer Learning Center. Names, licenses, clearances and contact details load into your own database. Minors are handled under your protection rules from the first day.
Connect your assigning platform. Games sync every two hours, every group, four weeks out. Referee names are matched to people once and remembered.
Your coordinators, coaches and reviewers get their unlocks. Pick one venue for the first Saturday. The board is live, the notes flow, and by Sunday night you have your first coverage numbers.
The page for state directors covers what you hand over, what each role gets, and the first season. What you keep: your data, in a database under your account. What you get: the app, the updates, and the person who built it on the phone. What it costs is a conversation, not a rate card: states pick the tools they want and pay per program or per person; tournaments pay by the event; referee coaches by the seat.
Thirty minutes on a call. Bring a weekend's schedule and we'll show you what the board and the referee's phone would have looked like.