Identifying and ranking the obstacles to the development of Sports in the Neighborhoods of Arak City

The purpose of this study was to identify and rank barriers to sports development in neighborhoods of Arak city.The research method was descriptive-analytical and the statistical population in the qualitative section included: experts (15 people) and in the quantitative section, included: all participants in Sports for All city of Arak (450 people).In the quantitative part, 207 people were selected as available and in the qualitative part of the whole statistical population as a sample.The data collection tool was a questionnaire which was prepared using a mixed method.To evaluate the content validity of the questionnaire quantitatively, two relative content validity coefficients and content validity index were used.Confirmatory factor analysis, t-test and Friedman test were used to analyze the statistical data.Information obtained using "SPSS" software. Version 24 and LISREL were analyzed.The results showed that, the seven factors that were identified as obstacles to the development of neighborhood sports have an effective and significant role in the lack of neighborhood sports development.These factors are in order of priority as follows: infrastructure, management, facilities and equipment, socio-cultural, budget-credit, environmental-welfare and finally access.