Applications
Referee certificate application
Referee and secretary certificates are issued after rules testing, practical review and federation approval.
Written test
Rules knowledge confirmation.
Practical exam
Judging or secretary practice at a sanctioned event.
Certificate
Issued according to federation procedure.
How to use this page
Application workflow and review data
Application pages should make the expected documents, decision route and follow-up action clear before a visitor contacts the federation.
All continuation paths in this block stay inside the ISF website.
What to prepare
- Applicant identity and contact route.
- Competition protocol, certificate target, referee practice or membership status when relevant.
- Country, national office or organizer context for routing the request.
How ISF reviews it
- The federation checks consistency with rules, standards, protocols and current status.
- Requests tied to results or records must be traceable to official event documentation.
- Unclear cases are routed to the secretariat or relevant committee for clarification.
What happens next
- Approved data can support a certificate, registry update, rank confirmation or official communication.
- If the request is incomplete, the applicant should provide missing evidence rather than submitting duplicate requests.
- Country-specific legal or payment details are handled by the relevant national office.
Officials intake
Referee or secretary accreditation request
Applicants should send their current practice level, target category and event experience before the federation assigns testing, interview or supervised practice.
Required request fields
- Full name, country, city and contact route.
- Target role: referee (side or chief), head referee, secretary or jury candidate.
- Current category, certificate date and expiry date, if any.
- Competitions already judged or supported as secretary.
- Preferred language for written test or interview.
Before sending
- Read Rules v5.2 Sections 8 and 9 before applying.
- Prepare evidence of practical judging or secretary work.
- Disclose conflicts of interest tied to clubs, athletes or organizers.
Routing and timing
- The referee committee checks eligibility and assigns the next step.
- Junior, regional, national and international categories use different thresholds.
- Certificates require periodic renewal and current rules knowledge.
The website form stores the request for secretariat review and the email action remains as a fallback channel. Do not send passport scans, medical documents or payment data unless the secretariat asks for them through an official route.