Identifying and Ranking Obstacles to the Development of Beach Soccer in Iran

The study is to identify,rank the obstacles to the development of beach soccer in Iran. This research is applied in terms of purpose,data collection was done in the field,in a mixed qualitative,quantitative manner. The statistical population in the quantitative part,including the officials of the beach soccer committee of the federation,the football delegations,the managers of the clubs,the prominent coaches of the national beach soccer teams were equal to 50 people,in the qualitative part,12 experts. Due to the limited statistical population,the statistical sample was equal to the population. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire including 29 obstacles to the development of beach soccer in the country. The validity of the researcher-made questionnaire was confirmed by 10 university professors,its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test (α,0,88). The Delphi method was used to identify obstacles to the development of beach soccer,the Friedman test was used to rank the obstacles in the inferential statistics section.The findings showed that 29 obstacles were identified,prioritized in managerial,executive dimensions,areas,facilities,equipment,financial,economic,attitude, support of officials,and human,environmental,respectively. The officials of the federation should first of all remove the obstacles in the field of management,administration,then remove the obstacles of facilities,equipment in their agenda.