Alireza Eizadi; Gholamreza SHabanibahar; mahmood goodarzi; habib honari
Abstract
Since government funds is limited to develop sports infrastructure, earning more and monitoring costs for sports programs and organization’s goals are considered. Clubs budget is reached to unprecedented figures in the tens or even hundreds of million dollars. As the clubs moved on to the ...
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Since government funds is limited to develop sports infrastructure, earning more and monitoring costs for sports programs and organization’s goals are considered. Clubs budget is reached to unprecedented figures in the tens or even hundreds of million dollars. As the clubs moved on to the commercial nature of their sporting nature, such a situation requires a transformation of the traditional features of the football industry. In order to prioritize marketing strategy of Premier League football clubs, the comments of 53 executives of clubs, marketing committee, officials and sports marketing football clubs experts were collected through researcher made questionnaires. Experts confirmed the questionnaire validity and respectively their reliability were confirmed due to inconsistency ratio of questionnaires that are less than (0.1). The results showed that developing a strategic marketing plan for premier league clubs matcher with the approach of maximum absorption advertising and sponsorship, developing the club comprehensive system and improving opportunities for private investment sectors are in priority second to fourth in the premier league. Developing stimulus plan to enter foreign top players in the premier league is the lowest priority.
alireza eizadi; gholamreza shabani bahar; mahmod goodarzi; habib honari
Volume 6, Issue 2 , December 2017, , Pages 21-34
Abstract
Today, football; after many changes; behind, from a simple sport has been proposed as a great trading alongside other industries and professions. The aim of this study is to develop a strategic marketing plan for football Premier League clubs based on SWOT analysis. The methodology is based on collection ...
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Today, football; after many changes; behind, from a simple sport has been proposed as a great trading alongside other industries and professions. The aim of this study is to develop a strategic marketing plan for football Premier League clubs based on SWOT analysis. The methodology is based on collection of data and descriptive survey based on functional objective. A total number of 53 which is clubs managers (n = 18) , clubs Marketing Committee (n=10) and sports marketing experts (n=25) participated voluntarily in the study with using purposive sampling. The survey instrument of the study was a questionnaire made up of internal and external factors marketing strategy League and consists of 60 questions. The validity and reliability confirmed by 10 experts in this field through Cronbach's alpha coefficient Which was 0. 87. The data was analyzed by descriptive and analytic statistics of Friedman Test Method for Ranking of League football's marketing strategies factor. Results showed that due to internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats) and resulting in SWOT strategic analysis, marketing position in football was offensive and the most important purpose according to Friedman's test, was to develop supportive, facilitative and encouraging rules, for participants in the field of Marketing football League. According to this target to counter the threat, taking advantage of environmental opportunities, is to eliminate weaknesses and to enhance strengths in football marketing and applying appropriate strategies aremeans to reach to the objectives of revenue for football.
