Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to Analysis of Factors Affecting the international sports seats by the representatives of Iran.                                      
  Methodology: The statistical population of this study included all of  the faculty members, administrators, athletes and representatives of the sports seats in the context of international seats, had the necessary knowledge and experience(n=495).In the qualitative phase, 25 individuals were selected purposefully and in quantitative phase , a sample of 220 people was chosen based on Morgan table. The instrument was a 55-item structured questionnaire to achieve the objectives of the study. The validity of the content and formal questionnaire was confirmed by 20 experts of sports management and its structural validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Its reliability was studied in a pilot study with 30 subjects and calculated as 0/83.For data analysis the descriptive statistic and inferential statistics methods including KMO, Bartlett exploratory factor analysis with orthogonal rotation and Friedman by application of AMOS software SPSS software were used.             
Results:The Research results showed that there are 6 factors in order of priority such as social and  cultural factors, administrative,  communicative , economical , professional and occupational, political as effective components contained within international sport seats are involved.                                                        
Conclusion:It is suggested that organizations and senior executives of sport use all these effective and fundamental factors for gaining international seats and work to preserve and strengthen these factors, and by establishing a long-term plan, the acquisition of international sport seats as one Consider important strategies in sport.