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Great referees deserve great software. Every day, our passionate team works hard to improve our product in our mission to make referee and official management smart and easy.
We do everything in our power to help sport federations of any size to gain:
Powered by a strong entrepreneurial spirit, our founders started their own complex planning consulting agency in 2015. A request from the Royal Belgian Football Association for referee planning prompted the idea to build a standalone software application.
Dieter De Naeyer, at that time a semi-professional referee and frustrated by the lack of referee management, and Ken De Norre - De Groof, always looking for a tough problem software could crack, turned their thinking to how a cloud platform could tackle all referee challenges.
RefAssist was founded and grew organically from a customer-centric philosophy. The all-in-one official platform was built, based entirely on customer feedback and necessities — and we continue developing, with the same mindset.
The perfect blend of referee knowledge, passion for sport, and software expertise
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For referees, by referees
RefAssist’s team goes above and beyond for our partners, listening to their feedback and considering their needs every day. We anticipate possible challenges and try to tackle them before they can even grow out to become issues. Our secret? Having actual referees in almost every branch of our compan...
Sports are a universal language. They unite people who might otherwise never connect. From Belgium, to Azerbaijan and Australia, RefAssist (OfficialsHQ in Australia) helps to consolidate that connection by taking care of any sport’s central figure: the match official. Being one of the most sport-fre...