Abstract

Background & Purpose: This survey evaluated the economic obstacles of club privatization in Iranian professional football league.
Methodology: The statistical population of this study included the Premier League and first division football club directors, chiefs committee of Football Federation and official football of the Provinces, sport management and some of economic and management professors which were familiar to the professional football Issues, and football news reporters and experts (N=173). The data collection tool was researcher made questionnaire which its validity was confirmed. To measuring reliability of questionnaire, Cranach’s alpha was used (α=0.80). Friedman test was used for ranking of the obstacles and Factor Analyzes was used.
Results: The results showed that the first obstacle was population inappropriate allocation of broadcasting.
Discussion: Increasing the effectiveness and efficiency, improvement of the managing system, obtaining good results and increasing the budget of club are the most important aims of each sport club and the Economic problems towards the clubs privatization were the notable obstacles to reach these goals. So, removal of these obstacles, is the first step to success.