Economic and Social Development Model of Iranian Football

The current research was carried out with the aim of the socio-economic development model of Iranian football.

The research method was applied in terms of its purpose and mixed in terms of its execution method, which was conducted in the field. The football industry of the country (managers of the economic field in football (federation, some heads of delegations and expert experts in the field of sports economics) from this collection to the point where theoretical saturation was achieved regarding the research topic, people were asked to conduct interviews and obtain the necessary information related to The desired topic was chosen in a completely improbable way. According to these materials, the interview started with the purposeful selection of people who were experts and knowledgeable in relation to the research topic (economic development) and during a 3-month process and interviews with 20 Ehsas researchers. Kurd, which reached the point of theoretical saturation. Also, in a small part of the statistical community consisting of all experts in the field of sports marketing, especially football, some officials in the economic and marketing field of football in the federation, sports boards, experts and university professors, members of the media, managing directors of football clubs, Coaches, referees and athletes were selected in order to complete the necessary data. Due to the large number of people in the research community, the available sampling method was used to provide the necessary data to test the model. Based on this, 384 people were selected as samples. The research measurement tool in the qualitative part included semi-structured interviews. In the quantitative stage, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. To obtain the validity of the questionnaire, content validity, construct validity and Cronbach's alpha were used for its reliability. The steps of data analysis in the qualitative section were through open coding, axial coding and selective coding with MAXQDA 2020 software based on the Glazer method. In the quantitative analysis, the structural equation model based on SPSS and PLS software version 23 was used to analyze the inferential data.

Four factors including policy, economic, club and comparative development factors are effective on the socio-economic development of football; There is a significant difference between them, such that "comparative development component" has the highest rank in the factors affecting the economic development of football from the perspective of the research sample, and "club factors" have the lowest rank.

According to the findings of the research, after compiling the socio-economic development model of Iranian football, it was found that the fit indices of the model had an acceptable and desirable value, and the research model was confirmed.