Functional Patohology of Voluntary Management in the Iranian University Sport Events

Sport events would not be feasible without volunteers; therefore, the aim of this study was to functional patohology of voluntary management in the Iranian university sport events.With respect to the main aim of the study, the methodology was qualitative. The sample consisted of those who had the most relevant data from the subject of the study; therefore in this study were used of the purposive sampling documents and interviews that the researcher after 11 interviews with experts people and experienced in this field, reached to theoretical saturation. In accordance with qualitative researches, data were analyzed simultaneously with data collection. Also, for analyze the research data was used of the Wolcott (2008) theme analysis method. The results included the 151 sub-themes and 8 main themes were discovered from the initial codes, from which it was derived of the 103 basic themes and 5 institutor themes. As a result, much reduction in the number of volunteering students for the Iranian university sport events arises from factors and multilateral functional problem, that lack of attention or less attention to each of them leads to major obstacles to development.