Identifying Sport Marketing Barriers in Iran from Sport Manager's Perspectives

The aim of this study was to identify sport marketing barriers in Iran from sport managers’ perspectives. The statistical population involved top managers of Sport and Youth Ministry, National Olympic Committee and sport federations (N=80). Sample was equal to the population and 67 questionnaires were returned correctly. A researcher-made questionnaire (with 40 items) was used to measure sport marketing barriers in five factors including economic, legal, managerial, structural and environmental. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 10 experts and its reliability was obtained as 0.86 in a pilot study. Data analysis showed that sport marketing barriers in Iran were respectively legal, structural, managerial, environmental and economic. So, sport politicians must consider these barriers before designing sport marketing development strategies and determining their priorities.