Determinants of Assault on Football League Referees during Competitions in Nigeria

Abstracts

EN

The assault on referees is an act committed by an individual involved in a match such as players, substitutes, coaches, team officials or spectators against a referee that is of a violent or intimidating nature. This study, therefore, investigated the level of assault of referees in Nigeria’s Premier Football League. The participants for the study consisted of two hundred and fifty (250) Nigerian Premier League elite referees, footballers, coaches, and spectators. The purposive sampling technique was used for the study to select the respondents. Sampled used for the study was survey research design. A structured questionnaire with validated and reliability value of 0. 75 was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using the inferential statistics of Chi-square (x2) to test the research questions and hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. The three hypotheses of officiating, organization of the league and win at all cost tested, were all rejected. Consequently, some recommendations were made based on the findings of the study.

Keywords

EN

assault; competition; football; professionalism; violence

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Szczeciński. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 127-133

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

other

Danjuma Moudu Momoh

• Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Faculty of Education, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria

• https://orcid.org/0000000235486077

other

Toyosi Olaseyo

• Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Faculty of Education, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria

Identifiers

DOI

10.18276/cej.2021.1-12

Biblioteka Nauki

1338663