Sociological Factors of Violence and Aggression among Football Spectators (from Tabriz Football Spectators Point of View)

Football stadiums, because of manifold factors, could be an environment of demonstrating violence for spectators. Accordingly, this research aims to study the sociological factors of violence among Tabriz football spectators. Statistical population was whole football spectators of Tabriz and sample population was 1045 people chosen by random sampling method in the 6 home competitions of TractorSazi and Gostaresh Foolad. The instrument was an author made questionnaire and the reliability and validity was confirmed. Kolmogrov Smirnov, one sample T test and repeated variance analysis tests were used for statistical methods by SPSS20 software.The results of variance analysis showed that, cultural intolerance, team position, referee related affairs, reaction to spectators of other teams, personal and psychological problems, hardware factors, software factors, coach and players position and media factors (P≥ 0.05) were effective on violence demonstration from Football spectators point of view. To remove the factors of violence, it would be better to pay attention to position and stand of stadiums at first and then try to solve personal problems.