The Satirday Pool Scheme is operated by the County FA and the following Saturday Leagues
- Leicestershire Senior League
- Leicestershire Combination
- Leicester & District League
- North Leicestershire League
- Leicester City League
It is intended to ensure that all Saturday football is covered with a referee and that all referees looking for a game get one where possible. All referees who have registered as available on Saturday afternoons with County FA who do not have a game must either close the date with County FA or one of the above leagues or be liable to accept appointments from the Pool.
The Regulations
In order that referees in this County may be utilised to the greatest possible benefit the following scheme has been agreed
between The Association and the Leicestershire Senior League, Leicestershire Combination, Leicester and District Association Football League, Leicester City League and North Leicestershire Association Football League and must be adhered to by all
concerned.
1. Each league will initially allocate its own referees to matches and may make any re-appointments up to 9.00 a.m. on the Monday preceding the following Saturday’s matches
2. A list of matches together with the appointed officials will be sent by each League to the Referees Development Officer of the County Football Association by 9.00 a.m. on the Monday. With the list will be a list of matches with no appointed Referee, a list of available referees who have no game, and a list of referees who have closed the date.
3. A League will notify the Association’s Referees Development Officer of matches which subsequently become uncovered by an official Referee.
4. The Association’s Referees Development Officer will immediately, or as, and if circumstances permit, fill any vacancy with a Referee not appointed or becoming available.
5. A League may engage an official after the time stipulated in 1 above only with the permission of the Association’s
Referees Development Officer.
6. All Leagues will release a Referee for a Supply League and upwards appointment which arises and will receive priority in replacement.
7. Referees who are not allocated matches by their respective Leagues on given dates which hereafter become closed for personal reasons SHALL NOTIFY IN WRITING to the Referees Development Officer of the County Football Association up to and including the Friday of the previous week, following which such notifications may be by telephone.
8. Upon receipt of all monthly appointments referees operating on Leagues outside the Pool Scheme (including Level 1-4 referees) shall advise the Referees Development Officer of the County Football Association of all closed dates, whether for football or non-football reasons. Referees shall also advise the Referees Development Officer of all open dates on which he wishes to receive an appointment. Where a Referee, operating outside the County on a given date, upon his original appointment being changed or cancelled by that League, such change of availability shall be immediately advised to the County Referees Development Officer or his nominated aide.
9. Referees at Levels 1 to 4 who are appointed to a Friday, Sunday or Monday game shall, in the event of not
wishing to take an appointment on the Saturday of that week-end, close such date with the Association’s Referees
Development Officer.
10. Referees who cannot fulfil their allotted appointments through any circumstances (Saturday morning included) shall
notify the League Referees Appointment Officer. Only in emergency should they contact the Association’s Referees
Development Officer.
11. The scheme will operate on Saturdays from the first Saturday in September until the last Saturday in April inclusive, in each Season
12. Any referee appointment from the Pool Scheme shall receive match fees relative to the League or Competition.
13. Leagues are required, in writing, to report to the Association’s Referees Development Officer any Referee failing to accept an appointment from the Saturday Pool Scheme.