Identifying the Factors Affecting the Implementation of Sport Marketing in Iranian Football League Clubs

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the implementation of sports marketing in the clubs of the Iranian Premier League with the exploratory blend approach. The statistical population of the study consisted of sports management professors, managers and marketers of football clubs, members of the football federation marketing committee and students of sport management doctors. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data in a quantity section. To collect data in a quantity section were used theoretical sampling and in-depth interview with the elite by 17 people. In the quantitative part, 244 questionnaires were collected and analyzed by a questionnaire drawn from the qualitative section and its distribution among the research samples. The face and content validity of the questionnaire of 49 questionnaires was confirmed by the views of the professors as well as the convergent and divergent validity and the reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. A total of 381 primary codes were obtained. These codes are categorized into 14 groups of codiminders and 3 groups of selected including individual factors, organizational factors, and outsourcing factors. The path coefficient between sport marketing implementation and individual, organizational and external factors was 0.476, 0.445 and 0.336, respectively. According to the value of index (GOF=0.282) in the study of general fitness, the model of measurement has a good quality.The results of this study can be used by Iranian Football League clubs to plan for implementation. Favorable marketing leads.