The process of selecting and qualifying a referee is crucial to the Football Association, as this process must go beyond physical abilities and technical knowledge to include selfefficacy in managing oneself and complex situations on the field. This is the basis that contributes to the development of the level of refereeing and greatly affects the quality of matches and the sports scene in general. Therefore, the self-efficacy of football referees must be as high as possible. The referee must be familiar with all the laws of the game and have a personality. The problem of the study was crystallized by the researchers asking several questions: What is the level of self-efficacy among the referees of the Iraqi Football Federation? The current study adopted the descriptive research method The research community was intentionally chosen, namely (referees of the Central Football Association in Iraq). The researchers built a measure of self-efficacy, conducted scientific transactions on it, and then applied it to a sample of (86) referees. The researcher concluded that the referees of the Central Football Association in Iraq possess an average level of self-efficacy and recommended The need to conduct self-efficacy development courses.