AU - Zare Abandansari, Mohammad AU - Razavi, Seyed Mohammad Hossein AU - Dousti, Morteza TI - Examining the challenges and opportunities of privatization of Esteghlal and Persepolis football clubs PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - ntsmj JN - ntsmj VO - 9 VI - 32 IP - 32 4099 - http://ntsmj.issma.ir/article-1-1552-en.html 4100 - http://ntsmj.issma.ir/article-1-1552-en.pdf SO - ntsmj 32 ABĀ  - privatization can be regarded as public participation in all economic levels of the country and indirect supervision of the state in the works. present study is the study of challenges and opportunities for the deregulation of the club of independence and Persepolis. qualitative research method and ranking of components are quantitative methods. semi - structured interview method was used to collect data. in the qualitative section, 30 people were interviewed for the privatization field. after reaching the theoretical saturation of the interview and in the quantitative section, the number of 384 were sent. the formal validity of this study was confirmed by eight professors of sport management and its reliability using cronbach's alpha 86 %. for statistical calculation of descriptive statistics and for ranking the components, freedman test was used. in the challenges of management with 4.04 percent of the most important parts and in the opportunities of management and economic sectors with 3 percent of the most important items to leave the two clubs to the private sector. By providing the necessary financial resources, the attention of managers to the private sector for entering the bourse and positive trade competition between the clubs to attract more efficient private sectors should be an effective step in the direction of the two clubs from the monopoly of the state. CP - IRAN IN - Babolsar LG - eng PB - ntsmj PG - 51 PT - Research YR - 2021