Labour Process of Football Referees In Professional leagues: The Example of Sakarya Province

In the world, the beginning of the football refereeing, was correlated with the beginning and spread of football. With football becoming such a colossal industry, footballers who play this game, have been turned into leisure time employees. Particularly, the labour process of footballers have begun at this point where football has turned into a profession. The profession of football refereeing has come into prominence as the decision-making authority about conflict in football field, while the footballer are playing football. Just as the effort footballers perform, referees also perform in order to manage the football match and make the right decisions. However, when it is investigated, it is observed that there are very few scientific research done. Consequently, referees to be studied in a scientific research is quite important in order to overcome the lack of information on this subject. In the study semi-structured interview of qualitative research was used.