The concern with the performance of football referees has opened lines of investigation in areas such as technical and physical performance. Theoretical and analytical gaps regarding the causes of their performances in a holistic perspective are scarce. The purpose of this study is to understand how various processes of personal, career development and contextual nature influences the classification of football referees. The literature review on excellence and the performance of the referees allowed to define a model that contemplates three distinct areas: 1) personal experience; 2) sports course; 3) surrounding context. The model to understand the causes of the performance of the Portuguese referees was obtained by comparing the classification of referees for national boards between the periods of 2009-10 and 2018-19 with the relative data to their age, experience as a federated player and referee, region density and proximity to peers of national board. The results show that the performance of the referees is influenced by a set of processes such as individual experience, sporting background and the context. This article opens a new perspective on the referees' training process. Its content may constitute an important insight for the implementation of referee training programs, namely at the base.

对足球裁判员表现的关注在技术和身体表现等领域开辟了调查领域。从整体角度来看，关于其性能成因的理论和分析空白很少。这项研究的目的是了解个人，职业发展和背景性质的各种过程如何影响足球裁判员的分类。关于优秀和裁判员表现的文献综述允许定义一个模型，该模型考虑了三个不同的领域：1）个人经验；2）体育课程；3）周围的环境。通过将2009-10和2018-19期间国家委员会的裁判分类与他们的年龄，作为联盟球员和裁判的经验的相关数据进行比较，从而获得了了解葡萄牙裁判表现原因的模型，区域密度以及与国家委员会同级组织之间的距离。结果表明，裁判的表现受一系列过程的影响，例如个人经历，运动背景和背景。本文为裁判员的培训过程开辟了新的视角。它的内容可能构成对实施裁判培训计划（即在基地）的重要见解。结果表明，裁判的表现受一系列过程的影响，例如个人经历，运动背景和背景。本文为裁判员的培训过程开辟了新的视角。它的内容可能构成对实施裁判培训计划（即在基地）的重要见解。结果表明，裁判的表现受一系列过程的影响，例如个人经历，运动背景和背景。本文为裁判员的培训过程开辟了新的视角。它的内容可能构成对实施裁判培训计划（即在基地）的重要见解。