The causes of sport crises

The present research aimed at determining causes of crisis in sport and ways for preventing them in the fields such as hardware (facilities), software (management), live ware (psychological and social factors) and mass media from the viewpoints of spectators, athletes, coaches, referees and sport correspondents and also to introduce a crisis- management strategic model. The statistical population of the research was 41380 people ; samples were randomly chosen from the population as follows :spectators 300 out of 40000,athletes 250 out of 1000,coaches 70 out of 80, referees 40 out of 50 and correspondent155 out of 250 . Statistical method used in the study was ANOVA, descriptive statistical techniques and Schaffeh tests for analyzing collected data. The finding of the study show that there are significant between the testes ’views on crisis-creating factors (P < 0.05). According to subjects’ viewpoints the following factors were known as major crisis causes: The first and the most important one was software (management), the second factor was hardware and live ware jointly, and the third factor was mass media. In order to manage them effectively, we must have a strategic view and divide the processes into three phases: pre-competition, during competition and post-competition ones.