Umpire Training & Certification per Nation

France runs Arbitre Regional, National, and International exams as multi-part assessments combining written and practical components, with per-part scoring and pass/fail flags, written-before-practical ordering, and a mandatory recyclage refresher to renew. Training pathways move candidates from course through exam to practical, with provider-level distinctions between comite, ligue, and federation. Sweden runs an SDF-based three-grade ladder (L1, L2, L3) where the SDF is the official training provider, allows playing umpires at local level, and gates promotion behind experience requirements per grade. Germany runs the four-grade Schiedsrichter A/B/C ladder with an Anwaerterjahr (one-year candidacy), a 204-question exam tied to a points threshold, and a five-year holding period before CEP can step up to FIPJP.

The training pathway engine generalises these national rules into configurable training steps per grade, multi-part exam status tracking, prerequisite grade-year checks, and exam time limits with automatic expiry. Each candidate has a pathway progress endpoint exposing current step, completed steps, and outstanding prerequisites. Online exams serve questions without revealing answers, save draft answers automatically, expire on the time limit, expose a remaining-time check, and surface expired sessions to administrators for review.

Recertification, typically every four years, runs an eligibility check covering CE credits accumulated, assignments officiated, and current certification status. A recertification schedule lists certifications approaching expiry within a configurable window so the federation can run targeted refresher courses ahead of the wave. The registry expiration job batch-processes lapses (active to expired) and emits an expiry report grouped by grade and month, plus a grace-period listing for recently expired certs that can still be reactivated. The umpire assignment history endpoint generates a career summary (total assignments, head umpire count, distinct levels, career span) and a season breakdown of role, status, and level counts per year, supporting both promotion decisions and career retrospectives.