Practice and challenges of club management in southwestern Ethiopian super league foot ball clubs

Abstract

This study focuses on investigating the major practice and challenges that influence the development of clubs management in south western Ethiopian super league football clubs. The general objective of the study was to investigate the major practice and challenge that influence development of club management. To achieve the intended objective of this study across sectional survey design would be employed to study the problem. Data were collected from Kaffa Coffee, Jimma Ababuna and Bench Maji Coffee football Clubs through questioner, observation and interview. To realize the objective of the study, multi stage sampling techniques was used in the study, i.e. Purposive sampling was used to select the participant zone, Simple random sampling was employed to select clubs, Purposive sampling method was employed to select club- president, club managers, technical directors, technique officer, Team leader, and Finance officer and availability sampling technique was employed to select players. The total number respondents of this study were 96 consists of 75 players and 21 club administrative staff members was employed. Self-made questionnaire was used to collect data through questioner, observation and interview. Before the actual study carried out, a pilot study conducted which is for checking the validity & reliability of the instrument of data collection. The data collected was analyzed into descriptive statistics of frequencies, percentages and inferential statistics of binary logistic regression was used. Data presentation was carried out by chart and tables. The null hypotheses were tested using chi-square at p <0.05 level of association or agreement using SPSS 23. On practice of club management the findings revealed that the strategies used by manager were viewed by a high proportion of the respondents as strongly disagreed, with a practice of club management which was viewed as strongly disagreed in three clubs. For the challenge of club management participant were of the opinion that the financial problems, equipment, planning resource, capacity building training, club structure and expert contribution to the clubs variable in the equation are significant that indicate there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the factors which were listed above have a significant effect on the club management. Which are great challenge for club management were generally agreed. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the managementof the football clubs should improve on all the management practice used to club management and reduce the challenges that above mentioned. Further studies on practice and challenges that influence the development of clubs management need to be carried out in other super league football clubs in Ethiopia.