Yes — request soccer officials for Long Island travel and club matches, including multi-field tournament days. Tell us age group, small-sided or 11v11, how many fields run at once, kickoff windows, and whether each game needs a center only or a center plus assistants. We do not publish a fake fee card on this page. Submit the request and we confirm what the date can hold.
Why travel weekends are not a town-rec booking
A town recreation schedule is usually one site, one age band per night, and a coordinator who already knows which parent will turn the lights on. Travel and club soccer on Long Island is the other shape. Games stack on Saturday and Sunday. Several age groups share a complex. A visiting team may be coming from another part of the island, and the home club is the one who has to produce officials even when the assignor the league normally uses is already full.
That is the booking this page is for. It is not a guide to joining a club, and it is not a promise that we are the official assignor for any named league. If your competition already has an assignor of record, use them. Call us when you still have uncovered matches, a one-off tournament, or a weekend your usual crew cannot fill.
Our general soccer referee page covers the sport across Long Island. This page is the travel and club case: multiple games, a crew plan, and a site that is often a complex rather than a single town field.
What to send before we assign anyone
A useful request is specific. Vague notes (“soccer Saturday, a few games”) produce the wrong crew or a slow reply. Include:
- Town and complex name, plus field numbers if the site has more than one pitch.
- Date, first kickoff, last kickoff, and whether games are back-to-back on the same field.
- Age group and format: small-sided or 11v11. Do not make us guess from “U12.”
- How many officials each match requires in your competition. Some younger games are a single referee. Many older full-sided matches use a center and two assistants. We assign what you specify.
- Who pays, and who the official should call if a field is late or a team does not show.
- Any certificate-of-insurance requirement, and the legal name the venue wants on it.
Name the field, not just the town. Complexes with four pitches will put an official in the wrong parking lot if the request only says “Smithtown soccer.”
Crew size is a competition rule, not a guess
Organizers sometimes ask us to “send whoever is standard.” There is no single standard that covers every Long Island club weekend. A 7v7 or 9v9 match and an 11v11 match do not put the same number of people on the touchline. A festival that uses one referee per small-sided game is a different labor plan from a weekend that requires a diagonal system with two assistants.
Write the requirement the way your competition wrote it. If you are unsure, ask your league or tournament director before you request coverage. We would rather delay a day than assign a one-referee crew to a match that will be protested for lacking assistants, or the reverse — three officials standing on a small-sided game that was written as one whistle.
The same honesty applies to age. An official who is comfortable with older club matches is not automatically the right fit for a morning of very young small-sided games, and the reverse is also true. Put the age group in the form.
| What you tell us | Why it changes the assignment |
|---|---|
| One field, one match | A single official or a three-person crew for that kickoff, then they are done. |
| One field, a full slate | The same crew may stay if the windows connect. Gaps and age jumps may need a handoff. |
| Several fields at once | A crew plan. One person cannot be the center on two pitches that kick at the same time. |
| Small-sided festival | Often more games and shorter matches. Count games, not just “a Saturday.” |
| 11v11 with assistants required | Three slots per match, not one. Under-requesting is the usual miss. |
Need a crew for a travel or club weekend?
Age group, field count, kickoff windows, and how many officials each match requires.
Request coverage →Tournaments versus a club league Sunday
A club league match is one kickoff, a known opponent, and a site the home team uses all season. A tournament day is a stack: pools in the morning, later rounds if you advance, and a field that may be reassigned at lunch. Those are different requests even when both say “club soccer.”
For a tournament, send the grid if you have it, and say what happens if weather or a forfeit deletes a round. Officials planned for a 2 p.m. final should not be assumed available at 4 p.m. because the morning ran long. If you need a standby, say so. If you do not, do not expect one to appear.
Our tournament referees page covers multi-game events across sports. Use this page when the sport is soccer and the teams are travel or club, not a town house league.
Indoor domes are a different ruleset
Winter pushes a lot of Long Island soccer inside. A turf dome or field house that runs its own league is not this page. Boards, walls, smaller rosters, and modified restarts change the game. We already explain that booking on the indoor sports facility page. If your “travel weekend” is actually three hours of indoor soccer at a private complex, link us to that venue and say indoor. Do not paste outdoor 11v11 assumptions into a dome request.
The reverse mistake happens in March. Clubs move back outside and keep the winter crew notes. Tell us the surface and the laws you are playing. We confirm the format with you rather than assuming last month’s indoor session still applies.
Sites, parking, and who meets the official
Travel games move. A club that plays “home” at three different complexes in one month needs the address of this week’s site, not the club’s mailing address. Gate codes, school security desks, and which entrance is open on Sunday morning belong in the notes. An official who cannot get onto a campus does not help you, and we will not invent a gate code.
Name a human who will be at the field before the first whistle. Tournament desks sometimes close, and the coach on the sideline is not always the person who booked the officials. If a match is delayed, that contact is who we call.
Paperwork private complexes actually ask for
Town fields sometimes sit under municipal coverage. Private complexes, colleges that rent pitches, and some school districts want a certificate of insurance that names them. That document is routine, and it is slow if you ask for it as cars are parking. Put the venue’s legal name in the request. Details on what the certificate shows are on our certificate of insurance guide.
Background-check and certification questions come up too. Ask them in the same request if your competition requires a specific check. We will tell you what we can document. We will not imply a credential we are not providing for that assignment.
Lead time on Saturdays that everyone wants
Spring and fall Saturdays on Long Island collide: soccer, lacrosse, baseball, and softball are all trying to staff the same morning. A four-field club tournament is not a same-morning favor. Send it when your grid exists. If a referee drops the week of the event, use the form anyway and say it is a fill-in — partial coverage is sometimes possible, full coverage is not something we will pretend to guarantee.
Weather makeups are their own problem. A Sunday moved to Wednesday night is a new request, not an automatic transfer of Saturday’s crew. People have jobs. See cancel and reschedule for how to close the original date so you are not paying for a field nobody used.
Fees
We do not print a travel-soccer price list here. Match length, crew size, travel between complexes, and how many games one official works in a day all move the number. Our cost-by-sport guide is the place we discuss how soccer fees are structured. If that page and your competition’s published referee fee disagree, your competition’s assignor rules win for league matches. For an event you are hiring directly, the quote on your request is the number that matters. Do not budget a tournament from a rumor in a parent chat.
What we will not claim
We do not list clubs we “officially” serve, because a weekend fill-in is not a league partnership. We do not invent USSF grade requirements for your age group. We do not promise every Saturday in May is open. We do not staff a match and also pretend to be the league’s discipline committee. The product is officials on your fields when the request is specific enough to assign.
If the need is a single town recreation game, start from the soccer page or last-minute referee. If the need is a travel or club weekend with a real grid, start here.
Send the grid, not a vague Saturday
Fields, ages, kickoffs, and crew size. We will tell you what we can cover.
Request a referee →Frequently asked questions
We staff soccer for organizers on Long Island, including travel and club weekends that are not a town recreation schedule. Say so in the request so we do not plan it like a weeknight rec game.
Yes, when the grid is specific: fields, games, kickoff windows, and officials per match. One person cannot center two pitches that start together.
Not always. Tell us what your competition requires. We will not invent a roster rule.
Indoor facilities use modified rules and a different booking relationship. Use the indoor facility page for dome and futsal work.
Many private sites do. Send the legal name early. See the certificate of insurance guide.
As soon as the grid exists. Spring and fall Saturdays collide with other youth sports. Same-week fills are sometimes possible and are not a promise.