In Massachusetts Overview Overview Registration Upgrades Assignment Administration Organized soccer in Massachusetts involves approximately a quarter of a million participants excluding their fans and families.
Players range from seven years old to over fifty years old including men and women.
As many as thirty thousand soccer matches are played annually in Massachusetts organized in leagues by gender and age. All of these matches require at least one certified soccer official and matches at higher levels of skill and competition require three certified soccer officials. The international governing body of soccer is FIFA . In the United States soccer is governed by an affiliate of FIFA called the United State Soccer Federation, USSF . These rules are administered by certified soccer referees.