US Soccer Association

U.S. Soccer is dedicated to producing multiple referee education sources targeted at giving support to the program's approximate 140, 000 people around the world that service amateur games during the youth and person levels.

Good quality training supplied by the 55 State Referee Associations is paramount to the success of the U.S. Soccer Federation Referee system. For this end, information and sources produced by U.S. Soccer are readily available on the web making sure that officials, instructors, assignors and assessors could be trained much more consistently and effectively nationwide.

As well as encouraging development inside the State Referee Associations, U.S. Soccer also focuses on pinpointing officials with the possible to ensure success during the expert and worldwide amounts. To help these attempts, U.S. Soccer assigns a network of very competent staff to numerous elite-level local and national activities in which quantitative and qualitative is collected to spot this system's up-and-coming and top performing officials.

These attempts in addition directly support the selection and instruction of National Candidates and National Officials. U.S. Soccer's technical staff conducts a highly discerning process to review and approve a finite range nationwide Candidates and National Officials on a yearly basis. These officials then obtain training from U.S. Soccer when preparing of working some of the country's most competitive occasions and leagues, including professional matches.

The pro Referee company (PRO) is responsible for managing referee programs for the expert soccer leagues in the United States and Canada. Its mission is always to supply first class match officials for many expert soccer in united states.

U.S. Soccer and MLS regulate and fund the company, with ongoing collaborative assistance from the Canadian Soccer Association also expert leagues. PRO assigns games played in MLS, NASL, USL, NWSL while the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.