Register for a Referee Class

West Side Soccer is currently offering referee classes:

Entry Level: U8 Official class on Tuesday October 26, 2021, 6pm to 9:30pm, via Zoom. For referees in U6 to U8.

Second Level: level Regional (a/k/a Basic) Referee class on Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:30pm to 9:30pm via Zoom. For referees in U9 to U12.

Third Level: Intermediate Referee class to be held on the last Saturday of January. For referees in U13/14 to U19. Likely to be in-person in Manhattan.

Attendees MUST register in advance at AYSOU.org using their OWN login and password. DO NOT login using someone else's email and password or you will not receive credit for these classes. A link to the Zoom classes will be sent shortly before the class to the email address used to register. Please do not forward the link to unregistered volunteers.

Please see the instructions below and email Michael Titowsky with any questions or requests for training.

Class attendance ALWAYS requires registration in advance at AYSOU.org, which means that volunteers must first register on the WSSL.org website under your Player & Volunteer Profile. This will kick off the background check process which is a legal requirement for all adult volunteers.

 

Teen Referees

Young people aged 10 years and over, including Core and Travel soccer players and their siblings, and are very welcome to attend referee classes, and can gain community service credit for their time in class and refereeing on the field (subject to approval by their school). The Teen Referee program welcomes new members and will make sure that you have fun as well as serving the league!

Volunteer registration for young people is a little different from that for parent volunteers. Go here for Teen Referee instructions.

More information about training can be found here.

How to Register for a Referee Class

These are the steps that need to be completed to register for a course. Some of them only need to be done once, if they're done properly. Please try to do these in order. It will cut down on problems and having to repeat any of these steps.

  1. Volunteer as a referee by logging into your WSSL in-league account and checking the box for Referee on your parent profile (if you have not done this already at registration)
  2. Go to AYSOU.org and log in using the same credentials as you do to log into your wssl in-league account
  3. Click on "In-person Courses" from the top menus
  4. Select "Referee Instructor Led Courses" by clicking on the blue "Open" button to the right of the item. You will see a list of all available in-person courses for that discipline. Choose 'U8 Official' or 'Regional Referee Course" as needed and click Sessions. It will unfortunately display every course in the country (believe us, we wish it didn't).
  5. Scroll down and just look for the date we are offering the training and then look for the WSSL course. All of our courses will say "West Side Soccer League" or "3/A/611" (which is our section, area and region) in the title.
  6. Click on 'Register". To get the details for the class (time and place and requirements), click on the course name. The details will expand below the entry

Complete Safe Haven, Concussion Awareness and Regional Referee Companion Courses Online at AYSOU.org

  1. Go to AYSOU.org.
  2. Log on using the same credentials you use to log into your wssl in-league account.
  3. Click on "Online Courses" in the top menu.
  4. Scroll down to see Safe Haven, CDC Concussion or Regional Referee Course and click the blue "open" button to the right for the relevant course.
  5. On the next page click Launch to take and complete the course.

For Safe Haven and Regional Referee Courses, all modules for each course must be taken for the course to be considered complete. Please note that the online Regional Referee course is not a substitute for the in person class. Its aim is to get new referees up to speed so they can attend the in-person Regional Referee class without first attending the U-8 Official class.