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Match Facts 101 For Clubs

The New England Rugby Referee Society has moved from Who’s the Ref to Match Facts (MF) as our assignment platform.

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Each club and conference has an established account, and NERRS pre-loaded the primary contact from last season (2022-2023) in the system for each account. The primary contact can log into Match Facts and follow the rest of the process.

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If you're working with NERRS for the first time or your old primary contact is no longer associated with the club/conference, please contact Amelia Luciano at president@nerugbyrefs.org to request establishing/updating of the account's contacts.

Officer Responsibilities and Instructions

Primary contacts must ensure the following procedures are done for their club.

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1. Update Contacts

  • Anyone who has the role “Membership Officer” can add others and can assign them roles.

  • Login to Match Facts. Go to the “Organization” view by clicking in the top left of the page (as opposed to your personal section).

  • Go to MEMBERS

  • Click “Add member”.
    Each club must have at least 2 members, and there is no maximum number of members.

  • Enter name and email  - Your new member then will get an email to complete their registration.

    • WHAT WE DON'T NEED:

      • Date of birth

      • Gender

      • Postal address​​ for every member

    • WE DO NEED:​

      • Club Treasurer's contact information that includes:

        1. Email address

        2. Phone number

        3. The club's correct postal address for BILLING

      • Club President's contact information that includes:

        1. Email address

        2. Phone number​

  • At this point, members with the "Membership Secretary" role can assign the new member roles.​

    • Members can have more than 1 role
      e.g. one person can set as President and as Treasurer.

    • A single role can be assigned to multiple people
      e.g. both the Treasurer and the President might want the “Treasurer” role so they both get invoices.

  • Please clear out any members who are no longer involved in your club’s administration.

  • FOR CONFERENCES ONLY

    • You also need to update your contact list with a name and email address for the following three roles:

      • Leader (president, commissioner, czar, whatever your conference calls it)

      • Treasurer

      • Chair of Disciplinary Committee

 

2. Enter your playing venue (or venues)

  • In the Organization section, go to GROUNDS

  • Put in your field’s name and address. This needs to be able to generate a close enough location for GPS.

  • For venues with multiple fields (e.g. Fort Adams or Union Point) use the option to “add fields”.

    • If you don't, the system will only accept one game per time slot (causing problems at places like Moakley Park).

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Inform Amelia Luciano that you have done the above, and she will enable your team to input fixtures.

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3. Enter Requests

  • Go to MATCHES, and click the little arrow at the right side of the “add new match” button.  

  • Select game or tournament

    • INDIVIDUAL GAMES

      • Select your competition (Club Men or Liberty or Colonial Coast Women or etc.)

      • Select division

      • Select round (2024)

      • Select field 

      • Enter time/date/opponent details

    • TOURNAMENTS

      • Select your competition (Club Men or Liberty or Colonial Coast Women or etc.)

      • Select division

      • Select round (2024)

      • Select field 

      • Enter time/date/opponent details

      • Update the Notes section with the following information

        1. # of Matches per day
          1 referee can cover up to 6 matches of 7s
          Multiple referees will need to be allocated as # of games increase: 2 for 12, 3 for 18, etc.​

        2. # of teams

        3. Type of match: 7s or 15s or 10s

        4. Turf or Grass & # of Fields

  • PROOFREAD DETAILS. You are responsible for the accuracy of your entries.

  • Hit “save”

  • Your games will show on our schedule as “pending”, until approved by the Society.

    • Teams that have unpaid bills will remain pending until cleared by our treasurer.

    • If your game(s) don’t change from pending to future in 48 hours, please contact Amelia Luciano.

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4. Communicate with assigned referee(s)

  • When an assignment is made, team's contact(s) will receive an assignment email; Save for your records.

  • The referee assignment from Match Fact includes:

    • Details you entered about the match

    • Referee's contact information​​

  • Once notified of an assignment, CONTACT THE REFEREE(S) DIRECTLY:

    • Confirm the match details.

    • Exchange phone numbers so in the event of changes or a cancellation you can communicate effectively.​

User Guides for Match Facts

For detailed information concerning capabilities please review the PDFs linked below.

Registration

Membership Officer

Club Admin

Club Treasurer

Coach

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