Distribution of Competitive Balance in Iran Football Pro League and Europe Pro league With Economically Indexes (k top team, Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient)

In last decade, the subject of competitive balance of professional leagues has attracted so much attention. Competitive balance is called to prediction of fans about winner of the match. Sport league needs some level of balance to be active and could be still in the completion of sport economy. Championship competitive balance of Iran’s and Europe five flight league (England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) was compared. To fulfill this aim, data of mentioned leagues gathered for time period (2001-2010). To determine competitive balance, indices of “k tom team”, Gini coefficient t and Lorenz curve was used. Results indicated that competitive balance status in Iran was in the best and in England and Italy was in the worst situation according to k top team index. According to Gini coefficient, Iran, Germany and France respectively were in the best situation and England, Spain and Italy had the same status. The better situation of Iran’s competitive balance is because of distribution of power among different teams, and reduces of power between two popular teams of Tehran (Esteghlal and Piruzy) and others. So it seems that Iran’s pro-league has a good potential for found rising and developing economically.