Rahim Sheikhzadeh - Department of Sport Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Mahmoud Salimi - Department of Sport Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Yaghob Ghafuri - Department of Sport Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Ahmad Turk Far - Assistant Professor of Physical Education, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

This study aims at identifying barriers of entrepreneurship in sports in the perspective of administratorsand experts of Sports and Youth Offices in Hormozgan (in Iran). The statistical population included allthe managers and experts in the Sports and Youth Offices in Hormozgan (in Iran) as 72 people. Thesample size was also considered as 72 people due to the limitation of statistical population from 7 peopledid not cooperate and the number was reduced to 65 people. The sampling method is census samplingthat the sample is equal to the population. Data collection tools include Barriers to EntrepreneurshipQuestionnaire made by Yadollahi Farsi in 2011. The questionnaire has 63 questions with 5-choice Likertscale (strongly agree as 5 to totally disagree as 1 ) that assesses the barriers to entrepreneurship insport in 3 behavioral, structural and environmental dimensions and its reliability was obtained as 0.88 byCronbach alpha coefficient. The results show that the control is of no means considered as a barrier toentrepreneurial behavior. Also, technical barriers are structural barriers to entrepreneurship in Sports andYouth Offices in Hormozgan (in Iran) and economic factors are as environmental barriers toentrepreneurship in Sports and Youth Offices in Hormozgan (in Iran).

Entrepreneurship, Obstacles, Sports, Sports and Youth Offices