Match Roles

This section of the Competition administration tools allows the authorized superuser to configure and organize a specific set of match roles (fields) on the match screen for each sport available in Comet. Sport is defined by both disciplines and gender, which allows you to have a different configuration for Men’s Futsal vs Women’s Futsal, etc.

For any of those combinations, you can configure separately the list of match roles that are team-specific (meaning the persons who sit in the technical area of each team) vs the list of persons who are appointed as match officials.

When you first click on this menu, you will see the list of match officials, for some default sport. The table view shows key information, and it allows you to search, filter, and sort the available roles. In order to add more “persons” to the list and to the match screen, for all matches in the same sport, you can click the Add button on the top right corner of the table.

New Match Role

A pop-up screen will open up with the list of all required (and optional) values necessary to complete the configuration of each match role. Take extra care when selecting the registration type(s) and a user role, which is very important for Match officials who may be responsible for performing certain activities for each of their matches.

Please note that the same configuration can be easily applied to multiple sports, simply by listing multiple values in the section for Sports.

Match Role Authorizations

Below is the description of match-related authorizations, for match officials whose appointment is confirmed on a specific Match

• Participate:

  • access match details, confirm/reject appointments, complete match forms (where role appointed as editor)

  • access Lineups, Start List and Match Report once lineups have been confirmed

• Edit:

  • in match status SCHEDULED: enter/update team lineups

  • in match status SCHEDULED or LINEUPS_CONFIRMED: enter match events, carry out Live match functions (live status, start/end phase), edit match data, switch status Scheduled/LineupsConfirmed

  • enter Live Match Commentaries

• Confirm: Set match to status PLAYED

*Match Official Editor is the Match Offical role that has the Editor check enabled

The Referee Observer (Assessor) has all Match Editor (Participate) Authorizations, plus Authorizations to complete the Referee Assessor Report.

Admin Authorizations

The authorizations tab on a “Match role” configuration tells the system which group of roles is permitted to appoint and administer the official in the match in that match role.

Two groups are available:

• Refereeing → which grants permission to:

  • Administrator of Referees if the match is under the user’s organization

  • Referee Manager (also known as Referee Appointer) if the user’s connected person is added as the Referee Manager/Appointer to the (parental) competition of the match

• Competition → which grants permission to:

  • Competition Administrator if the match is under the user’s organization

  • Competition Manager if the user’s connected person is added as the Competition Manager to the (parental) competition of the match

It’s possible to select both groups for a single Match Role configuration and to grant permissions to both departments, refereeing and competition.

The same selection of the “Match Role” Authorizations grants permission for canceling the appointment or for reverting the appointment of a match official. This setting is also reflected in various processes, such as:

• e-mail notifications,

• unavailability administration,

• matchday operations

For example, the Competition Administrator

• will be able to enter unavailability, appointment responses, and matchday actions on behalf of those Match Roles for which the “Competition” authorization setting was entered.

• will receive response (confirm/reject) notifications only for those Match Roles for which the “Competition” authorization setting was entered.

Furthermore, administrators can correct data on behalf of their match officials after the match has been set to PLAYED. No Match Official can edit the match after it has been officialized.