Affecting Factors on Football Player's Loyalty to Sport's Apparel Brand - Case: in the Premier League of Iran

The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing the loyalty of football players to sports apparel brand in the eleventh round of the Premier League. Methodology of this research was surveying and population of this research formed players who participated in the eleventh round of Premier League football(N=426).The study sample included 263 people of Premier League football players of Iran. Questionnaire data collection tool for brand loyalty was Wong Foong and yahyah (2008) with reliability of (α=0.73). Analysis of findings using ANOVA(analysis of variance)with repeated measures, a comparison Bunfrony test at a significance level of 0.05 was conducted with spss19 software. The results showed that the factors of the product quality, brand and model of sports was more effective than other factors in loyalty of sports apparel brand. Therefore, program managers, planners of sportswear industry should try to create or modify models to increase brand loyalty and products quality and provide basis increasing rate of customers loyalty and thus provide the long-term interests of their business.