Sport Management Journal

The Comparative Study of Sport Clubs in Iran and the Selected European Countries

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Vahid Nazari 1
Mohamad Hosein Razavi 2
Morteza Dousti 3
Farzam Farzan 3

1 PhD Candidate, Department of sport management, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran ,Iran

2 Professor, Department of sport management, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran ,Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of sport management, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran ,Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2020.293390.2368
Abstract
Sport clubs have an important role in the people’s sporting activities; these clubs are important not only for the competitive, the elite sport but also for the public sport. The objective of conducting the present research is the comparative study of the sport clubs in Iran and the selected European Countries. The present research has been done among the countries in 2019 taking a qualitative research method as well as utilizing a comparative approach in terms of spatial and temporal adaptation level. We usually consider a research as the comparative one in which the comparison data of at least two societies have been used. Therefore, nine countries, France, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Austria and Greece and England have been selected. The sampling was done in a purposeful way. Then, the four stages-description, interpretation, juxtaposition and comparison of the structural adaptation- have been fulfilled utilizing Bereday’s model. The results have shown a lot of similarities, in many cases, between the countries being studied regarding the role and the position of the sport clubs despite different cultural and political origins in their formation. We can provide conditions for strengthening and developing the clubs in the country considering the strengths of such fundamentals in the countries being studied utilizing those strengths in the activities of the sport clubs in the country.

Keywords

European
Iran
Selected Countries
Sport Clubs
The Comparative Study
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 2022
Pages 130-91

  • Receive Date 03 December 2019
  • Revise Date 19 May 2020
  • Accept Date 13 May 2020

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