A comparative study of how to finance the professional football clubs in Iran's and England premier league

The purpose of this research was a Comparative Study of how to finance the professional football clubs in Iran and England''s premier leagues. That was an applied research and implemented in descriptive & analytical method. Data collection was done through investigating of documents and also with use of Researcher made questionnaire. Face and content validity of the questionnaire has been studied by professionals and financial experts’ opinion and Construct validity was confirmed using exploratory factor analysis. Validity of the questionnaire has been obtained through Cronbach''s alpha (α 0/89). The statistical population includes Statistical research community، all football clubs in Iran''s Premier League and England that were selected available three clubs from England and five clubs from Iran as samples. Result showed there was a significant difference between methods of financing English & Iranian professional football clubs. Most of Iranian clubs funding by government and industry based (65%) while most of English clubs are private and funding by television broadcasting rights 31%)،matchdayincome (21%) and Cash flow from business (22%). Some major barriers to financing Iran professional football league clubs are as follows the state-run clubs، Lack of financial transparency، IRIB rejection to pay the media broadcasting right to the clubs، Failure to comply with copyright law in Iran، Football competition schedules، club marketing management، lack of awareness of club manager from new methods of financing، Limited use of creative directors with financial and business expertise in different levels of football industry.