NEW REFEREES

All new referees should now start the process at our new registration site, you will sign up on "New Member Registration" if you are brand new or are returning to refereeing after more than 3 years away. After your profile is complete, while you can see all the clinics, you must choose Outdoor Entry Referee Online Lessons FIRST.  You want just this Online link first, so that after your payment you can get access to the 25 online training modules that are a prerequisite for the in-person course.  ONLY after you have successfully completed all 25 modules will a new green button/box appear that says "Pick a Clinic".  That's when you decide what roster you want to be on and where you want to attend the in-person class and hands on field training.   All the 25 modules must be completed before the posted cutoff date of each clinic, at midnight the night before the clinic, in order to be able to get put on the specific clinic roster. After midnight the system won't let anyone be added to the roster.  Any roster has a cutoff date so the sooner you can get your 25 modules done, the better.  Here is the link to get you started;    https://mrdp.omgtsys.com/

The entry in-person clinic consists of both classroom and hands-on field training.

CURRENT REFEREES

Referees registered within the past 3 years should start their recertification at https://mrdp.omgtsys.com and select the Member Sign In option. If you have not already changed it, your default username will be your primary email address (from the US Soccer Learning Center). Your default password will be your last name (all UPPERCASE).

As a Referee or Emeritus Referee, you have two options for recertification:

Option 1: Outdoor Referee Recertification clinic ($100 total fee). If this is your choice, select the Referee Recert Online Lessons clinic. Upon completion of all 7 lessons, the Online Lessons button will change to say Pick a Clinic. At that point, you will be able to move yourself to an in-person clinic. Your 2025 badge will be given to you at the clinic.

Option 2: Outdoor Referee Zoom Recertification clinic ($110 total fee). If this is your choice, select the Outdoor Referee-Zoom Recertification date and time you wish to attend. After registering, and before attending the Zoom session, you will be required to complete the 7 online lessons. Your 2025 badge will be mailed to you shortly after your lessons are completed and you have attended the Zoom session.

If you register for the outdoor option and subsequently want to transfer to a Zoom option, there will be a $10 convenience/service charge that must be paid before your transfer can be completed.

If it's been over 3 years since your last registration in Missouri or any other USSF state, you will have to use the same path as the new referees.  If the OMS system only offers you the online entry route, then your last registration was outside the permitted 3 year window.  You will have start out as a "new referee" and when the system finds your info it will tell you what to do.

In the meantime once other training gets posted, i.e. fitness testing, assignor or mentor courses, if you're eligible you should see them on your home page.  REMEMBER EVEN IF YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR MORE THAN ONE THING (i.e. referee and assignor, referee and mentor, etc) THE PRIMARY EMAIL ON YOUR PROFILE IN THE LEARNING CENTER MUST MATCH THE PRIMARY EMAIL AND DOB IN OMS ON YOUR PROFILE or the 2 systems won't sync your SafeSport and/or Intro to Safe.

REFEREES REGISTERED IN OTHER STATES

All referees that are currently registered in other states and want to keep your registration there use  https://mrdp.omgtsys.com/   and then choose "GUEST REGISTRATION" if you just want to be assigned here.  This process does NOT affect what state you are currently registered through, rather it just confirms your registration status through the learning center and makes your info available to registered assignors for affiliated games in Missouri.  If it can't confirm your registration status, it kicks it to state administrators to confirm it in other ways. Of course all guest registrations now have to pay a $40 guest fee each year, plus if your existing background check isn't accepted by OMS, then you may also have to pay $7.50 for one in OMS. 

If you want to actually transfer your registration to Missouri, instead of guest registration you should click on "Transfer" to move your registration into Missouri. Be aware that normally doesn't happen until the NEXT time you re-register, but by checking that box the OMS system will let you re-register with Missouri the next time you re-register.

At some point ALL new referees that are 18 or older, as well as all re-registering referees, mentors, coaches, or assignors will have to go to the USSF Learning Center to complete at least 1 module every year at no cost to them.  Please don't do anything else on the USSF site that you have to pay for.  Any fees you should pay will already be folded into your fees you pay to register through Missouri, so we repeat, please don't pay for anything on the us soccer site cause if you do you can't get it back.

By Federal Law If you're 18 or older you also have to do SafeSport.  It must be updated every year.  It is free and should not cost you anything. You can also take it on the same learning center location  https://learning.ussoccer.com/safeguarding UNLESS your existing SafeSport expires more than 60 days from when you want to take it.  Otherwise then you can only take it by going directly to safesporttrained.org  Going there you will want to know which of the 4 USSF approved modules you need to take next.  Once it's done from there, on their menu, right hand side, look for "TRANSCRIPTS" and get/download a pdf copy and email it to [email protected] so we can save a copy at the state level, (a USSF requirement again), and we can upload it to your profile in the learning center.

The 4 approved USSF SafeSport modules are, in order of sequence:

SafeSport Trained - U.S. Soccer Federation

Refresher 1: Recognizing and Reporting Misconduct = U.S. Soccer

Refresher 2: Preventing Misconduct - U.S. Soccer

Refresher 3: Creating A Positive Sport Environment - U.S. Soccer

A new one, or the next in sequence, must be taken every year.  After all 4 have been taken, the sequence of modules starts all over again.

Suggest for returning referees you start with https://learning.ussoccer.com/safeguarding and ensure your Intro to Safe and Healthy is up to date, and if you're 18 or older your SafeSport must also be current.

Contact your MRDP system administrator (front page along the bottom) if you have any other questions.