Building and codifying the scale of the art of managing matches for first-division football referees in Iraq

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in building and codifying a scientific scale for the art of managing matches for football referees in Iraq, as an objective tool that contributes to diagnosing the levels of referees, and identifying the strengths and shortcomings of their administrative performance on the field, and the purpose of the research is to build and codify a scale to measure the art of managing matches for first-class referees and to find standard grades and levels for the scale of the art of managing matches for football referees. As for the research fields, the human field included the referees of the first division of the Iraqi Football League for the season (2023-2024) in the central and southern regions, and the temporal domain was determined for the period from (2/2/2024) to (22/6/2024), while the spatial field included  the referees' training fields in the central and southern regions. The researchers used the descriptive method in the survey method, and the research population consisted of (191) referees, where the research sample was selected by the deliberate method, which is (160) referees, with a percentage of (83.76) % of the research community, and the appropriate devices and tools were used as well as scientific procedures to build the scale of the art of game management, and the researchers used the appropriate statistical means through the statistical package (SPSS) to obtain the results of the research, and the results were analyzed and discussed according to modern scientific sources, and the researchers will produce the following conclusions, including the construction and legalization of a tool to measure the art of match management. For first-division referees in football in Iraq, most of the referees were positioned at the high level  in the  scale of the art of match management and its four dimensions, and the researchers recommended several recommendations, including the adoption of the game management art scale for first-division referees in football.