Comparison between Football Spectators and Risk Managers's Perception of Security Management in Azadi Complex

The purpose of this study was to determine the football spectators’ perception about security factors in events holding in Azadi Complex. Therefore the descriptive-survival method was used. The researcher-made questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach alpha test (p=0.811). Descriptive statistics, k-s test, binomial test, and Mann Whithney U test were used for data analyze. Among studied factors spectators’ attendance path, parking and around stadium control, and stadium entrances control and searching were in a partly appropriate level. Informing and spectators’ awareness of forbidden items and security points, and stadium emergency equipment were in an inappropriate level. Crowd control was in an appropriate level. There are differences between opinion of spectators and event-holding authorities in informing and awareness of forbidden items and security points. Spectators believed that informing and spectators’ awareness of forbidden items and security points was in an inappropriate level, but event-holding authorities believed that informing and awareness of forbidden items and security points was in an appropriate level.