An assessment of risk management practice in existing football stadiums of Ethiopia.

Abstract

In light of the fact that an assessment of risk management practice in existing football stadiums of Ethiopia is very critical issues to make stability of sport organization and this assessment deal with four existing football stadium to investigate the effective implementation of sport facility operation by accessing information from home team managers and technical Directors ,Coaches and players in purposive and Availability sampling, and the primary objective of the study was to establish the manager status of stadiums. Specifically, investigated the five stadium service like; crowded management, risk management, legal aspect, medical plan, and parking and traffic control as well as the association between demographic factors of stadiums. The study was conducted by using research instrument; Questionnaires, Interview ,and Document analysis in concerned of Addis Ababa Stadium, Dire Dawa Stadium, Tigray Stadium, and A wassa kenema Stadium, and case study research design were implemented, an Analysis of mean media, and average of 54 respondents. Overall, the results of this study revealed that risk management practices were not conducted in a sufficient and consistent manner, even though many home team club officials and players experienced or observed a significant number of un effective operational service in existing Ethiopian stadium. Furthermore, several relationships were reported between sport club’s institutional demographic factors and risk management practices. Some of the factors affecting higher responses of risk management practices were; ownership of stadium, club with fewer members, shorter durability of club, and ownership of club’s host facility. The study may contribute to construction the basic framework for law and policy issues with regards to managing football stadium in Ethiopia, finally it is hoped that escapable service and possible litigation are avoided in the future.