The role of media promotion in banks sports sponsorship

media promotion in banks sponsoring from sport. The research method was applied and qualitative. Its implementation was through interview and using thematic analysis. Sport sponsorship authorities of the national governmental and private banks that had sport sponsorship were formed the population of this research (19 banks). All of the population were considered that it was possible to provide to collect data from 18 banks. The results demonstrated that media promotion is one of the goals and achievements of banks in sport sponsoring, which includes informational and advertisements codes. furthermore, banks also face media constraints in sport sponsoring, which are Legal Advertising Limitations and informational, and the lack of indorsement and cooperation of officials and athletes. In order to encourage new sponsors to join the sport sponsorship and retain existing sponsors in this field, following points can be taken into account: considering the media promotion as one of the goals and achievements of sponsors in sport sponsoring and strengthen its and try to remove their constraints which are related to media promotion.