Sport Management Studies

Assessment of Football Referees’ Knowledge from Law Issues Related to Referring Career

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Isfahan

Abstract
This study aimed to assess the knowledge of football referees from law issues of refereeing career. The total population of this study included all of the football referees in Isfahan in 1394 (2015) which actively cooperated with the football association of that city (N=100). 52 referees in various referring levels participated in this study. A self-constructed questionnaire includes 80 questions, in the form of 12 dimensions, employed in this research (validity: 0.73, reliability: 0.85). The results indicated that football referees do not have sufficient knowledge regarding law issues related to refereeing career (P≤0.05). In other words, regardless of their sufficient knowledge from some dimensions of legal refereeing duties, their knowledge from the results of breaching their duties, required factors for imposing liability to them, the criteria of standard referee, and the possible ways that they might enter to litigation are not sufficient. In these regards, the education system of referees, lack of related scientific sources, lack of media coverage, lack of supporting from universities, and insufficient knowledge of all people involved in sport from law issues of sport, might be, are the effective factors on knowledge of football referees in these regards.

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 9, Issue 44
November and December 2018
Pages 37-50

  • Receive Date 11 February 2016
  • Revise Date 06 November 2016
  • Accept Date 21 December 2016

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