The Relationship between Fandom, Team Identification & Loyalty to Sport Team with Virtual Sport Consummation

Participation in video games has become the fastest growing form of human recreation. In particular، the soccer has been able to penetrate many industries such as video games. It also influenced people to leisure. This study examined the relationship between psychological characteristics of football fans with their interaction with the relevant football video game deals. Participants in this study were 379 teenage boys who participated in the 2013 FA Cup Digital. To investigate this relationship، the authors used two-part questionnaire. The first episode features a sport fans (sport fan questionnaire، team identification and psychological commitment to team and the second part of the questionnaire، based on the level of participation in sports video games and win prefer (victory favorite team against other team) used was. Multiple regression results revealed that psychological factor، especially sports fans، significantly predict the Level of participation and win prefer.