In recent years, cheerleading events have brought a new favor to the campus, with demonstrations including dance, cheers partner stunts, tumbling, and jumps, showcasing the energy, enthusiasm, and team spirit of a cheerleading team. However, results from competition often have a huge influence on a team's moral. Thus, how to establish a fair and affect judging criteria for cheerleading competition is an issue worthy of discussion. The purpose of this study was to construct the judging criteria for cheerleading competition by the method of exploratory factor analysis. This study use Taiwan's college cheerleading judging criteria as basic framework and consults other domestic and foreign judging criteria to create a questionnaire for establishing new judging criteria for cheerleading competition. In this study, referees at the Taiwan Collegiate Cheerleading Tournament were asked to review the videotapes from the competition and grade the competition based on the new set of criteria. Moreover, the judging multi-criteria for cheerleading competition were constructed by exploratory factory analysis. In conclusion, using exploratory factor analysis, the results revealed that the judges based their scoring on five criteria: team spirit, difficulty and originality of moves, dance choreography, familiarity and stableness of moves, and props used during competition. It was expected that the findings of this study can provide useful information for judges of cheerleading competition.