Abstract:
The purpose of this study was assessing the practices and challenges of administration in
football development in Bale zone. To achieve the intended objective of this study cross
sectional survey design were employed to study the problem. The data were collected totally
from 84 by purposive method selection in Bale zone within seven werada sport office56
experts and 28 management officials. To collect pertinent data, the researcher
employed/used liker scaled questionnaires and interview guides. The data collected was
analyzed into descriptive statistics of frequencies, percentage, mean ,standard division and
qualitative descriptions. The result indicated there are a lot of factors that challenge the
development of football administration in Bale Zone. These are lack of support,
encouragement and guidance to football from officials, shortage of necessary equipment for
football in terms of quality and quantity, low commitment and work for football from sport
officials and management, unsatisfactory relationship between sport officials and football
clubs, the absence of medical experts and facilities, shortage of budget allocated for football,
lack of well experienced experts in the area. The current status of football in the mentioned
area was not good. It was decreasing from time to time according to report of bale zone
football federation (2011). As indicated in the result part the practice was less interesting
and the development of the profession was very weak. This was the result of the abovementioned challenges and factors. Especially shortage of budget allocation was raised as the
major constraint. The result recommends organizing a football club can be successful and
effective if it was supported by appropriate facilities and equipment because they were the
essential parts for the development of football sport.
