The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will decorate a total of 30 referees with the badge of the world football governing body, FIFA, on Thursday morning, thereby conferring upon them the ...

The breakdown shows there are 11 referees, 11 assistant referees, four futsal referees and four beach soccer referees. There are also 22 male and eight female arbiters in all, with three of the 11 ...

A German lower-league soccer match took an unexpected turn over the weekend when a bizarre incident led to its abrupt cancellation. A pre-game routine check turned painful for referee Stefan ...

(AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The French soccer federation president is joining forces with the country’s referees after Marseille ...

Fenerbahce coach Jose Mourinho receives a four-match ban and fined by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) following his ...

NFL referees have one of the most difficult jobs in sports, making split-second decisions that can impact the outcome of games. While human error is inevitable, some ...

A story out of Germany is so unbelievable that we’d never think it was real, except for the fact that soccer has a way of ... child on the field ran up to referee Stefan Kahler and bit his ...

The French soccer federation president is joining forces with the country’s referees after Marseille president Pablo Longoria accused them of being corrupt in a bitter rant that followed his ...

Soccer referees tend to deal with plenty of verbal abuse over the course of ... second umbrella than a game in Germany that was called off after the lead official got bitten in the testicle. Most ...