GOALLINE's Official Management system takes into account settings and preferences like league and position qualifications, venue preferences and availability. A new preference can be enabled to allow referees to indicate that they have a conflict with a specific team that they would otherwise be available to officiate.
This feature is ideal for officials who have family members or other personal ties to a specific team. If your official association has policies that define conflict of interest, consult those policies and update your conflicting teams accordingly. When using Edit Referee Assignments, this new preference will remove referees from the list of available officials when games involve the teams they have indicated are a conflict.
To enable the ability for referees to set their team specific conflicts:
- From the admin control panel, under Communication select "Site Configuration"
- Select Yes to enable "Referees set team conflicts"
- Click to "Save Configuration"
Once enabled, referees can update their team conflict setting:
- Login to the referee control panel and select "Edit Conflicting Teams"
- All leagues available will be listed. To set a conflict with a team in a given league, select the + to expand it
- Check the box located next to each team that is a conflict
- When all conflicts have been checked, click "Submit Conflicting Teams"
- To remove a team conflict, repeat steps 1 and 2
- Un-check the box located next to a team you previously had a conflict with
- To save click "Submit Conflicting Teams"
If the details of a game change to include a team that is in conflict with an assigned official, the organizations RIC or UIC as well as the referee involved will receive an email notification advising them of the conflict. An example of the email notification is:
