Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the occupational pressure of female referees in China Professional Football League, and to analyze the sources of pressure and the influencing factors of pressure. This paper conducts in-depth interviews with the female football referees who have been in charge of the football professional league of China for a long time to obtain the subjective feelings of the interviewees, so as to grasp the current situation of the work of female football referees and the existing pressure problems; On this basis, combined with the relevant theories, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of female referees' occupational pressure. This paper combs the three main categories that affect the occupational pressure of female football referees, and thinks that occupational pressure is that when female football referees face the potential sources of occupational pressure, they make different pressure coping behaviors under the mediating effect of the expected pressure results on the importance of individual influence, resulting in the physiological and psychological problems of female referees Psychological and behavioral levels of different degrees of stress results. On this basis, this paper attempts to build a theoretical model of the relationship between the occupational pressure source and pressure performance of female football referees. This paper is the first time to explore the source of occupational pressure of female football referees from a micro perspective. In order to provide a theoretical basis for dealing with the occupational pressure of female football referees in the football reform, and to explore the application of qualitative research in the field of professional football research.

Key words: occupational stress, Female football referees, Grounded theory