EFL gets 54 new officials

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A new group of professional match officials will officiate across the Sky Bet Championship and support the development of refereeing standards across the rest of the Sky Bet EFL.

Known as Select Group 2, 18 new referees and 36 assistant referees have been contracted thanks to financial investment from all 24 Sky Bet Championship clubs.

The investment follows the recent launch of a new joint-initiative adopted across English football that aims to promote honesty, integrity and positive behaviour across the game.

From the start of the 2016/17 season referees will apply the laws of the game to rigorously manage players’ and coaches’ behaviour towards match officials, as well as conduct in the technical area.

This initiative has been introduced alongside a revision of the game’s laws designed to make them more easily understood by …

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