Islamabad Football Association (IFA) will host PFF Grass Root Referees Course to be held with the collaboration of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) from 2-7 February 2011. Islamabad Football Association (IFA) is organising six-day course during which 24 participants from various districts of Punjab, Islamabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, FATA and Gilgit Baltistan will turn up.
On the directives of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), PFF Referee Wing used to conduct such courses. It will be one of the two such courses in year 2011, during which prominent AFC/PFF Referees instructors will give lectures to Under-24 Referees. "PFF Grass Root Referees Course will equip Referees with the knowledge and skills to take charge of the coming matches in PPFL, PFF League and Age-Croup competitions.
Most of the referees are new to the discipline and are therefore in need of the course to give them a solid platform for development," said PFF Secretary General Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi who asked IFA to submit list of 24 participants plus four reserves at deadline of 20 January 2011.