The aim of current article is to treat and analyze the relationship of emotional intelligence to the skill performance of football players, by revealing the nature of the relationship between two variables and analyse the role and contribution of emotional intelligence in achieving effective skill performance, it was found that: - emotional intelligence establishes the presence a professional player, and development of his skill performance by controlling his positive and negative emotions and thus developing his athletic performance - football players are exposed to great psychological pressure during ninety minutes, which requires the availability of high capability and skills for them to deal in the right time at the right time with these pressures by the presenceof awareness and high emotional intelligence.