Identifying the Effective factors on development of handball championship sport by Meta-synthesis method

The study is to analyze the research done in the field of championship sport development, especially handball qualitatively. The method was qualitative and a kind of meta-synthesis with the seven-step method of Sandelowski & Barros (2007). The research population consisted of all the related sources about 465 persons. first, 65 sources were selected based on title. Then, 43 sources were selected based on the abstract, which eventually analyzed 34 sources based on content as related resources by coding. The results of Meta-synthesis classified the effective factors on development of handball championship sport in two environments; internal (micro and intermediate level) and external (macro level) in four main categories: Individual factors (5 dimensions and 24 codes), human-managerial factors (6 dimensions and 40 codes), financial-infrastructural factors (4 dimensions and 46 codes) and socio-cultural factors (6 dimensions and 37 codes). The factors and components obtained from this research can be a good guide for investing, deciding and adopting appropriate strategies for the development of handball in the country.