The effectiveness of professional competency certification of sports personnel in accordance with the mandatory of the Sports Law on the performance of Indonesia sports personnel

Introduction: This study aims to determine the impact of sports personnel’s professional com-petence on sports personnel performance in Indonesia in several Sports selected based on the importance of professional competency certification.Objective: This study focuses on the population of sports personnel in Indonesia which is spread across several leading sports branches following the mandate of the Grand Design of Sports in Indonesia.Methodology: This study focuses on impact analysis using the Scriven model, namely the goal-free evaluation model (goal-free evaluation model). The sample in this study were sports per-sonnel who already had 28 sports trainer licenses consisting of 14 leading sports, but do not yet have a professional competency certification from the National Professional Certification Agency. So,it consists of 2 people from each sport. Data was collected through direct question-naires answered by sports personnel.Results: The findings of this study resulted in the effectiveness of professional competency cer-tification for sports personnel, especially coaches in leading sports branches, having a value of Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.000 on df 28. The Sig. (2-tailed) value obtainedwas <0.05, which means it is significant for the performance results of the trainer compared to when the trainer had not been given a professional competency certification training program.Conclusions: Therefore, the role of professional competency certification is critical in improv-ing the performance of sportspersonnel in building and developing sports in Indonesia through professional and reliable sports personnel in carrying out their profession in each field follow-ing the mandate of the Sports Law.