Abstract
Today, sponsorship accounts for a major part of marketing programs of the world’s professional clubs in terms of earning income. The current research aimed to identify the most significant factors deterring the participation of sponsors from sponsoring professional volleyball league clubs in the country. This research fell under the category of survey and explorative researches and is a field study in terms of data gathering. This paper was conducted with a sample of 150 people of mangers of volleyball federation and professional volleyball league clubs, heads of clubs’ marketing affairs and sporting experts and etc. via a simple random sampling method. In order to determine the validity of the tool for measurement, experts’ views were used and in order to measure the reliability, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was applied, where its rate for the scales of the questionnaire was over 0.07. The results obtained from the single sample t test were indicative of the fact that five economic, legal, social, cultural and managerial obstacles were among the most important factors deterring sponsors from participating in the sponsorship of professional volleyball league clubs in the country (p<0.001). Freidman test was also used for prioritization of obstacles and indices related to each of the obstacles.
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