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Shama Maemae is the first female Solomon Islander to earn a FIFA badge as a center referee. FIFA confirmed accreditation following the release of the FIFA International List of Match Officials for 2024 sent to the federation referee department…

Twenty-two (22) referees from the Solomon Islands have completed a five-day FIFA MA course at SIFF headquaters in Honiara. The course is the annual FIFA Member Association Refereeing course for International and Top referees and Assistant Referees, Men and…

Two Solomon Islands match officials Bernard Mutukera and Rex Kamusu have been selected as candidates for the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar and FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021. Mutukera was selected as one of the Assistant Referees for…

The Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) technical department is hosting a three-day MA Senior Referee Course which starts today and concludes on Friday at the Allen Boso Complex in Honiara. SIFF Referee Development Officer (RDO), Robert Sulimae is optimistic…

Solomon Islands FIFA badged referees George Time and Hugo Hebala Pado are on international duties in China and Paraguay this month. Time arrived in China yesterday to officiate at the 2019 FISU University World Cup from 21 November to…

Soldiers help out local referees

The story has its roots in a chance meeting between Solomon Islands FIFA referees, Jackson Namo and John Sa’ohu, and Warren Bunn, at an international women’s match between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand in March 2012. Bunn, who…

This week another journey begins for Jackson Namo who is taking his first step in what is believed to be a long and ardours road to the apex that Taro reached in June 2010. Namo left earlier in the…