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Self-officiating guides for contact football

These guides are designed to help support qualified and registered coaches to officiate contact football games should BAFRA officials not be available.  If this is the case, the game or games within a tournament must be officiated by a minimum of three BAFCA Level 1 or above qualified coaches for 11v11 games, or or two for smaller sided contact variants. Coaches must be  who are currently qualified and registered with BAFA, have undertaken a field audit and have undertaken the reading of the rules of the game and the BAFA Guide to Self-Officiating. Coaches officiating games will have the full powers of regular officials and must be treated with equal respect.

BAFA Guide to Self-Officiating for 11v11 contact
BAFA Guide to Self-Officiating for 11v 11 contact – appendix 1: game day audit
BAFA Guide to Self-Officiating for 11v 11 contact – appendix 2: game day checklist guidelines