Janie Frampton

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Janie Frampton (August 26, 1959) is a British sports consultant and former football referee. She is the second woman to serve as a referee of men's professional football in the United Kingdom after Rebecca Welch.^[1]

Frampton is a director of Sports Official Consultancy, vice president of the International Federation for Sports Officials (IFSO) and Birmingham Commonwealth Games Chamber of Commerce, and executive chairperson of findmykit. In addition, she is a co-founder of the training institute TeamYou.^[1]

Career[edit]

Between 2001 and 2012, Frampton served as a national referee manager for education and training at The Football Association.^[2]

Since 2001, Frampton has been serving as the CEO of Sports Official UK (SOUK), and since 2012, she has been associated with Sports Officials Consultancy as a director.^[3] In 2011, she became executive chairperson and head of international relations at the International Socca Federation (ISF), and then joined Boccia England as a vice chairperson of its board of directors in 2019. Frampton has been an ambassador of Women in Football since 2010, Patron of Muslim Women's Network UK since 2017, and co-founder and chairperson of Ref Support UK, a registered charity to support the education, development, and advocacy of referees since its inception in 2016.^[1][3]

She became a vice president at IFSO in 2019 and was appointed vice president at the Birmingham Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce in 2021.^[1]

Controversy[edit]

After her emails were leaked on the national media in 2012, Frampton was charged for allegedly providing free tickets to the FA Cup semi-finals in exchange for flight upgrades for three female referees. Later, following the CID investigation, her charges were dropped, and Dean Mohareb was arrested for hacking, misuse of data, and unauthorized access to her emails.^[2][4][5]

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