Certified Referees in Suffolk County — From Babylon to Montauk.

Yes — Emergency Refs staffs certified officials across all 10 Suffolk County towns, from Babylon to Montauk. Suffolk County stretches from the Nassau border all the way to Montauk Point — nearly 100 miles. It covers 10 towns, hundreds of incorporated villages, and thousands of youth and adult sports games every week. Finding a referee on short notice in Suffolk requires a local network, not a call center in another state. Emergency Refs is built here, for here.

Planning a full season instead of a single game? See how far in advance to book a referee on Long Island — and if you're staffing up for fall soccer, field hockey, football, or volleyball, our guide to booking referees before fall season covers why the officiating pool tightens fastest in late August.

Towns We Cover in Suffolk County

Complete coverage across all 10 towns and their villages:

A few South Shore villages come up often enough to get their own dedicated page. The Patchogue referee coverage guide covers the Village's own Parks & Recreation-run fields — Shorefront Park and Rider Avenue Park — separately from the surrounding Town of Brookhaven, since the two run through different permitting offices even though they border each other directly.

Sports Covered in Suffolk County

• Soccer — USSF certified, youth travel through adult rec
• Lacrosse — US Lacrosse certified, boys and girls
• Basketball — IAABO certified, CYO, travel, and adult leagues
• Ice Hockey — USA Hockey certified
• Field Hockey — NFHS certified
• Baseball & Softball — rec leagues, travel, tournaments
• Football — flag and tackle, all ages
• Volleyball

Huntington is one of the higher-demand towns in Suffolk on its own, with a dense concentration of travel soccer, lacrosse, and CYO basketball programs — see our dedicated Huntington referee guide for hamlet-by-hamlet coverage and what makes booking there different from a lower-volume town. Smithtown is another town with its own page, for a different reason: it runs two full school districts — Smithtown Central and Kings Park Central — whose overlapping wrestling and winter-sports schedules squeeze the local officiating pool harder than a typical single-district town. See our Smithtown referee coverage guide for hamlet-by-hamlet detail across Kings Park, St. James, and Nesconset. The Lake Ronkonkoma area runs the reverse structure — one very large school district, Sachem Central, spread across parts of both the Town of Islip and the Town of Brookhaven — and our Lake Ronkonkoma referee coverage guide covers Lake Ronkonkoma, Holbrook, Farmingville, and Ronkonkoma together. Western Suffolk has its own dedicated page too: the Town of Babylon referee coverage guide covers all ten hamlets and three incorporated villages that make up one of the most administratively split towns we staff. Within that town, the hamlet of Deer Park runs a busy enough schedule at Fabio Buttitta Park and Geiger Lake Memorial Park to warrant its own page — see our Deer Park referee coverage guide for how coverage splits between those two parks. Commack sits right between Huntington and Smithtown, close enough to both that we treat it as its own routing zone rather than filing every request under one town — see our Commack referee coverage guide for how that works. On the South Shore, Bay Shore gets its own page too — it's a hamlet inside the Town of Islip rather than a town of its own, and it sits between our western and central Suffolk coverage; see our Bay Shore referee coverage guide for the surrounding hamlets we staff alongside it. On the North Shore, Northport is technically part of the Town of Huntington covered above, but it shares its own school district — Northport-East Northport — with East Northport, Eatons Neck, Asharoken, and part of Fort Salonga, a distinct enough community footprint to warrant its own page; see our Northport referee coverage guide for that district-level detail. Further east on the North Shore, Port Jefferson is really two places that share one name — the incorporated Village of Port Jefferson and the separate, unincorporated hamlet of Port Jefferson Station in the Comsewogue School District — and mixing the two up is common enough that we've given it its own page; see our Port Jefferson referee coverage guide for how we tell them apart when routing a request.

Key Suffolk County Venues We Service

• Dix Hills Sports Complex (Huntington)
• Belmont Lake State Park fields (Babylon)
• Blydenburgh County Park (Smithtown)
• Long Island Rough Riders complex (Farmingville area)
• Town of Islip, Huntington, Babylon, and Brookhaven recreation fields
• YMCA facilities across Huntington, Smithtown, and Babylon
• Indoor sports facilities and school district gyms throughout the county
• East End tournament venues in Southampton and East Hampton

Frequently Asked Questions