Study of Factors Affecting on Financial Fair Play’s Development in Professional Football in Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting financial development in Iranian professional societies.

The present study was a cross-sectional research carried out in qualitative and quantitative methods. The Samples in the qualitative method were 11 experts were informed about the research. the samples In the quantitative method were 65 pepple of Some senior football departments and the Ministry of Sports and Youth that were selected as the sample of the study based on the selection of all of them. The tool of the present study was Semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire of 31 questions. The validity of this questionnaire was reviewed and approved by some university professors. The reliability of this questionnaire was 0.81. To analyze the data, SPSS and PLS software were used.

The results of this study showed that 31 factors affecting financial development in Iran's professional football were extracted through interviews, which were classified into six technical, managerial, cultural, club, legal and motivational factors.

The results of the study showed that all identified factors affect the financial process in Iran's professional football. In the meantime, the technical factors with the impact of 0.967 had the most impact and the motivational factors had the lowest impact on the financial transfer of professional football by 0.647.