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RefWhistle

Ditch the Sunday night report

RefWhistle is the referee app and management software that runs officiating from the first appointment to the final broadcast. Availability, crews, live coaching, reports, video and streaming share one record, from community leagues to professional competitions.

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RefWhistle goes live at Kanga Cup 2026

Trusted by

  • Football Australia
  • Capital Football
LiveNorthside FC1–0Rangers
63:14
GOAR1AR2R
Live log2 angles streaming
  1. 63:02Positioning Caught square on the counter
  2. 52:48Management Bench settled before it escalated
Report drafts at full time

Officiating still runs on notebooks, group chats and Sunday nights

The admin around every match wears people down: 44% of referees leave, and it's one of the reasons. Capital Football, 2025/26 registrations.

    • Pen and paper on the touchlineDuring the match
    Logged as it happensLive

    The moment is captured while it's in front of you, not rebuilt from memory.

    • Rewritten from memorySunday night
    • Retyped into a portalMidweek
    Drafted at full timeFull time

    The report comes straight from the log, with the footage already attached.

    • The official hears backEventually
    Debriefed the same weekSame week

    The official sees each rating next to the clip that earned it.

How it works today

With RefWhistle

One record, from appointment to broadcast

Follow one match, Northside FC against Rangers, through the five stages RefWhistle runs. Each stage feeds the next, so nothing is typed twice. The figures are working examples with sample data.

The right official on every match

Officials post availability and block-outs from their phone, and reminders chase the gaps. Fixtures arrive from your integrated competition manager or data source, appointers build crews with the checks running as they go, and every offer, acceptance and swap stays on the match.

Referee management software
Crew builder
NPL MenNeeds crew
Northside FCvRangers
Sat 18 Oct19:30Deakin Stadium
Referee
J. Okafor
Assistant Referee 1
Unassigned
Assistant Referee 2
Unassigned
Fourth Official
Unassigned
Compliance Checks
  • Double-bookingNot run
  • Panel levelNot run
  • WorkloadNot run
  • Club conflictsNot run
Crew builder. Switch the sport and the positions follow your association's sport profile.

Log it without looking down

Coaches log incidents pitch-side with one thumb. Each entry is stamped to the match clock, tagged to the official it's about and rated on the spot, and the phone keeps working when the ground has no signal.

Referee coaching software
RefWhistle
H1
63:14
Rem 26:46
0A
2nd Half LiveEnd 2nd Half
Match Timeline2
Synced
  1. 58:41Positioning Center
  2. 41:22Penalty CenterKMI
The live console coaches use on the touchline.

Every angle, on the match clock

Stream Hub takes RTMP, SRT and HLS feeds or uploads and binds them to the match clock, so every logged incident is already a marker on the footage. Broadcast partners get read-only access to the streams they run.

Referee video analysis
Stream Ops
LiveTactical camera
41:22
Penalty awarded
Clip ready
KOHT2H
Angles
Audio
Healthy

Channels started on schedule before kick-off and archive to replays and clips after full time.

Coaching Log 41:22+0.5

Law 12, handball

Arm extended away from the body. The clip went straight into the panel's seminar playlist.

Stream Ops during the match. Pick a marker to jump the footage to that moment.

The report is drafted at full time

The live log becomes an After Action Report in your competition's own format, with suggested ratings. Coaches adjust and publish before they leave the ground, technical coaches can approve before release, and officials can reply to their own report.

Referee assessment reports
After Action Report
Draft

J. Okafor, Referee

Northside FC 1-0 Rangers, drafted at full time

coaching logs
18
KMIs
3
clips
7

Laws Application

Suggested from the log

Disciplinary Consistency

Suggested from the log

Advantage Control

Suggested from the log

Angle of View

Suggested from the log

Management Techniques

Suggested from the log

123
An After Action Report, suggested from the live log. Change a rating, then publish.

Teach with the moments that mattered

Clips become playlists by law, competition or panel, and live seminar quizzes are scored per official. Review panels settle the big calls, and each official's trends build across the season.

Referee video analysis
Seminar playlist
14 clips, 22 min
Question 1 of 5

Play stops here. What is the correct decision?

Pick an answer to see how the panel responded.

A seminar playlist. Answer the question to see how the panel responded.

From Saturday juniors to televised finals

The record is the same at every level; associations switch on what their competitions need. Sport Profiles set the positions, periods and terminology for each code, with football and futsal built in.

A youth match at a suburban ground, with the referee in the middle of playCommunity
Youth players sprint for the ball in an academy matchPathway
A packed stadium under floodlights during a professional matchProfessional

Hundreds of volunteers, one weekend at a time

Most officials only open RefWhistle on their phone: to set their availability, accept an offer and file a report. Appointers cover a full weekend of fixtures without a spreadsheet or a group chat.

Modules switched on

  • Availability
  • Appointments & Allocation
  • Compliance

Built for how federations really run

From a single association to a national body with dozens of members, every level gets its own controls, and nobody has to work outside the record.

Organisation
6 levels shown

  • State Federation

    Organisation
    AppointmentsVideo HubStream HubDefaults

  • Metro Association

    Association
    AvailabilityComplianceCustomised

  • Juniors

    Sub-group
    Inherited

  • Senior Men

    Sub-group
    Inherited

  • Regional Association

    Association
    AvailabilityInherited

  • Premier Competitions

    Association
    Match ReviewStream HubLocked
Each level shows which modules it runs and whether its settings are inherited, customised or locked.
Hierarchy
Organisation, association and sub-group levels. Settings flow down and can be customised or locked at each level.
Delegated, role-based access
Admin, technical coach, coach and referee roles come built in. Create custom roles and access levels on top, and delegate them down the hierarchy.
Your data, integrated
Fixtures and match events flow in natively from competition managers and data providers such as Dribl, Squadi and Opta. A separate public API with scoped keys lets your own systems pull matches, published reports and timelines.
Custom report formats
Build your competition's report formats and coaching-log inputs in the interactive builder: the criteria, rating scales and tiles your coaches actually use.
Technical committee reviews
Submit appointments for external review, or have panels review key match incidents and deliver feedback to the official on the record.
Audit and access
Accounts are by invitation only, administrator sessions can be time-limited, and every critical change is recorded with who made it and when.

About RefWhistle

RefWhistle (one word) is referee app and management software for football associations, made by RefWhistle Software Pty Ltd, an Australian company (ABN 22 702 634 375). It manages referee availability at Capital Football and ran its first public pilot at the Kanga Cup 2026. It is software for running officiating, not a whistle.

The RefWhistle appWho built it

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