Validation of the Ross Brand Association Scale in sports teams

This research aims at assessing the validation of Ross brand association scale among the selected sports teams in Iran football pro league.
It was conducted as a descriptive-correlational research. Research sample included 650 fans from teams of Persepoliss, Esteqlal, Tractorsazi and Sepahan in 2012-13 season. Ross Questionnaire with 41 items was translated, retranslated and finally edited to be distributed among the sample. The face and content validity of questionnaire was confirmed by five sports marketing professors. Reliability based on Cronbach's alpha was equal to 0.92 (P According to the results, there were nine factors of personality, competition, success, background, stadium, brand, social factor, exclusive privilege and uniqueness explaining 64.289% of variance in the brand association scale. Indexes and outputs showed the fit of model (CFI=0.91).
Persian version of the Ross brand association is good instrument to evaluate the brand of professional clubs. Sports marketing managers are recommended to consider these variables in the team's professionalization process.