Referee scheduling for the modern club

A fitting schedule, quick and easy
No hassle, right the first time

Referees share their availability, the planner sees at a glance who's free and assigns them. If anything changes, everyone knows right away.

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Tested at several clubs last season, in active use this season — and available for your club too.
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Planner
Saturday7 open
09:00
Home O13-1Away O13-1 SPORTLINK
Field 2 ·5 available
Assign
09:00
Home O11-2Away O11-1 SPORTLINK
Field 3 ·4 available
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10:30
Home O17-1Away O17-1 FRIENDLY
Field 1 ·3 available
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10:30
Home O15-1Away O15-2 SPORTLINK
Field 2 ·6 available
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12:45
Home O19-1Away O19-1 SPORTLINK
Field 1 ·2 available
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14:30
Home VR1Away VR1 SPORTLINK
Field 1 ·5 available
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16:00
Home 1Away 1 SPORTLINK
Field 1 ·8 available
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Publish & notify
Sound familiar?

Making the schedule is often a real challenge. Figuring out who's available — and chasing them up — even more so

  • The schedule for the coming weekend goes into the group chat as an image, with a request to confirm you're available.
  • Then come the replies. Who can, who can't, and “I can do that day, but only at a different time”. Before long you've lost track.
  • Later in the week someone drops out after all. And by now several versions are doing the rounds — sometimes someone replies to an old version.
  • At one club it's a group chat, at another a round of phone calls. But in the end the overview usually rests with just one or two volunteers.

Refplan makes all of that easier, faster and clearer

How it works

A fitting schedule in 3 steps

Matches come in from Sportlink (requires Club.Dataservice), automatically or with one click. You add friendly matches yourself.

  1. Step 1 Share availability

    Referee

    Referees indicate in the app when they can, up to four weekends ahead. So their availability is known before the schedule is even made.

  2. Step 2 Assign

    Planner

    The planner sees at a glance who's available, and assigns them. Refplan puts the best matches first — based on availability, on what someone likes to referee and on how many matches they have done this season. Refplan can also create a proposal for the whole match day; you tick off what you take over.

  3. Step 3 Publish

    Planner

    Publish once and everyone's in the loop: the referee gets a push notification, and anyone who's linked their calendar sees the match appear in it by itself.

And after that, it stays right

If something changes, everyone involved is notified automatically. If a referee updates their availability and it clashes with an assignment, the planner sees it straight away.

What Refplan does

Easier scheduling, with full control

Refplan is a handy addition to your existing club software. It makes scheduling your own referees far easier.

For the club

  • The app in your club's colours

    Upload your club logo and Refplan suggests colours from it — you can adjust them. The app then looks like your club's, and the emails carry your logo and club colours too.

  • Your home matches are in there in no time

    Via Sportlink, or otherwise from a photo of the match programme — no retyping needed. With the Sportlink import, Refplan also recognises the matches the KNVB assigns a referee to itself: those you don't have to fill in.

  • You see who still needs to fill in

    For each match day you see who hasn't submitted their availability yet, and remind them with one click. Exactly those people, not the whole group.

  • A proposal for the whole match day

    Let Refplan work through the match day: who is available, who referees which category, who is already full and who has had the fewest matches. You decide per match what to take over.

  • Works with several planners too

    Do you split the schedule — one of you taking the Saturday teams, another the Sunday ones? Each planner picks the teams they plan and keeps their own part. One schedule, no duplicated work.

  • Your FairPlay stars

    Does your club take part in FairPlay? Then Refplan keeps track all season of what share of your matches is refereed by a trained referee. You have an up-to-date picture of where you stand.

  • Not everyone needs to be in the app

    Is someone refereeing without an account? Just type in their name. They'll appear on the week schedule and in the download all the same.

  • A calendar for every team

    Turn on team calendars and every team gets a calendar link players and supporters can subscribe to themselves. If a match moves or is called off, that calendar follows — and for an away match it carries the full address.

  • Week schedule and stats, at the push of a button

    Download the week schedule as Excel — in your club colours, with your logo, and with the columns you want. The season stats come along as a separate tab.

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Referee
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For the referee

  • Share your own availability

    In a few taps you indicate, per day, which times you're available and how many matches you're willing to referee that day at most. Done.

  • Away for a longer period?

    Holiday, injury or another reason: set yourself to unavailable for that whole period in one go. No ticking off day by day for weeks.

  • You can always adjust

    If something changes, you simply adjust your availability. Already assigned to a match? Then the app first asks whether you're sure — and the planner knows right away. A club can also switch off withdrawing via the app; then it goes through the planner.

  • Your calendar stays right

    Link it once and you never have to look at it again. If a match moves or an assignment is dropped, your calendar updates itself.

  • Referee at more than one club? One account

    You keep your availability separate per club. And if a planner wants to ask you while you're already refereeing elsewhere at that time, they'll see it.

  • Say what you like to referee

    Per club, indicate which match categories you enjoy refereeing and which you would rather not. The planner sees this and takes it into account.

  • Your own season at a glance

    See how many matches you've refereed this season, broken down by age category. You can look back at earlier seasons too.

  • Available in multiple languages

    Everyone picks their own language — the whole app, including notifications and calendar, adapts.

What it costs

For the price of a few coffees a week

With Refplan your club saves time, and gets convenience in return. The bigger the club, the bigger the saving and the convenience — which is why the price scales fairly with the number of teams. A small club doesn't pay for the scale of a big one. For an average club of 25 teams, that comes down to one or two coffees a week.

  • A fixed amount per month or year — not per assignment
  • All features for everyone — no pricey add-ons
  • Unlimited matches, referees and planners
Choose your plan
€5 + €0.40 per teamper month · max €40
€15per month
€180 per year · 1.5 coffees a week

Amounts include VAT. All teams registered with the KNVB count — not just the ones you use Refplan for — except Futsal, O7 and G teams.

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A fitting referee schedule, quick and easy

Less hassle, more overview, more ease. Everything in one place and always up to date — you stay in control.

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