Management attitudes toward of Thai Amateur Football Leagues

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research aims to study the attitudes towards Thai amateur football league management, study personal attitudes of Thai amateur football league management in different personal information and study about the relation between attitudes towards professional soccer club license and the attitudes towards football league management. Therefore, mixed method research is applied in this study. There are 2 samples used in this research. First sample is the interviews of the executive directors from 5 different football clubs in amateur league who could be promoted to compete in a professional league. This is called as the qualitative research in this study. Another one is quantitative research. Information from 400 executives and team officials participated in Thai Amateur Football League is collected. Questionnaires with statistical analysis such as average, Analysis of Variance and Correlation Analysis are applied in this research. As a result, it found that the interviewees have good attitude towards Thai amateur football league management with the highest score at 4.452. Planning is the most important factors with the highest score at 4.517 while command gets the lowest score at 4.39. Then, the personal attitude of Thai amateur football league management could be divided into 4 hypotheses. It found that age, career, income, and region of football club affect the attitudes towards Thai amateur football league management confirming by differentiate score at 0.05 statistically. Finally, there is a statistically significant in positive correlation at 0.01 which is in a moderate correlation between the attitudes towards professional soccer club license and the attitudes towards football league management. It can be said that if a professional football club license is practicable, people will pay more attention to football league management.