The referees from across Asia gathered in Malaysia for the final five-day development course, with the aim to conduct the final evaluation of the participants’ refereeing performances and technical knowledge, and recommend the successful ones to the AFC Referees Recruitment. As the eighth batch of young referees to go through the programme which began in 2007, they had convened in Fukuoka, Japan to officiate the 2017 Sanix Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament in March for their second development course.
