The reality of sports injuries among first-class football referees in the Iraqi Premier League

Abstract

Sports injuries of all kinds that occur to football referees are a phenomenon that calls for the attention of all those responsible for managing sports activities by identifying the reality and most important sports injuries that occur and providing methods and means that work to treat and rehabilitate them and limit their occurrence in the future. The importance of the research lies in identifying the reality and most important common sports injuries that football referees are exposed to by preparing a questionnaire form for the most important types of different sports injuries and the period of occurrence of the injury that football referees may be exposed to during the season, the most common of which is among referees and first-class assistant referees. The researcher prepared a questionnaire for the most common injuries among football referees in the first division of the Iraqi Premier League for the season (2022-2023 AD) to identify the rates of injuries and the most important and common injuries that Premier League referees are exposed to and the period of their occurrence during (preparation - match - tests) so that we can establish The appropriate scientific solutions for them, after they were prepared in detail and presented to the experts to seek their opinions and correct them before distributing them to the research sample. The questionnaire form was distributed to all first-class referees accredited by the Central Iraqi Football Federation and the Central Referees Committee of the Federation to arbitrate matches for the Iraqi Premier League for the season (2022-2023 AD), who number (170) referees from all governorates of Iraq.