Objective: The study Stakeholder perception of the factors influencing the success of team sports in Guilan province.Methodology: Descriptive-survey research method being a field study was conducted. The statistical population of the study includes bosses, vice presidents, Secretaries and employees of Guilan province sport committees having representatives in the premier league and first division of the country along with all managers, coaches, and players of the respective teams Available and targeted sampling methods were selected (217 people). The validity of the researcher-made questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability (0.89) was calculated.Results: The results showed There is a difference between internal factors (p=0.021) and external factors (p=0.041) in the success of team sports in the Premier League and first division of Guilan province in three groups: manager, coach and athlete. In the internal dimensions in the dimensions of the coach (p=0.006), the player (p=0.021) and the team (p=0.013) and in the external dimensions in the media dimension (p=0.047) in the success of team sports in the Premier League and first division of the province. Guilan There are differences in three groups: manager, coach, and athlete. The results showed that the internal factors of the players 'factor had a greater effect than the external factors of the fans' factor.Conclusion: Sports managers are advised to pay attention to the priority of factors in planning and to give more credit to the importance of the success factor of the fans on success.

Sportsperson ship is one of the new terms which gets a lot of attention in sports ethics research nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sportsperson ship among individual and team sports elite male athletes. For this purpose, 84 elite athletes from individual sports including Wrestling, Tekwaendo, Karate, Weight Lifting, Track and field, Cycling, Boxing, Table Tennis, Swimming, Badminton, Gymnastic, Wusho, Bodybuilding and Skating and 78 elite male athletes from team sports including Basketball, Volleyball, Handball and Football completed the MSOS inventory. A pilot study among 45 athletes of Azad University was held which 34 inventory was approved and the coefficient alpha obtained was 0.77. Since after the examining, the distribution was not normal the data was analyzed through non-parametric Mann-Whitney U statistical method. The results stated that athletes involved in individual sports showed higher levels of sportsperson ship comparing to those who involved in team sports. Moreover, there found to be no significant diffrence between athletes with sport science academic education and those with other majors of academic education.

The aim of this study was to compare athletes' personality characteristics of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscintiousness, sociotropy, and autonomy in individual and team sports. One hundred and thrty-four athletes (92 team, 42 individual, 88 males, 46 females) from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, the University of Tehran, and several sport clubs were included in this study. All participants were asked to complete the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEOPI-R) and the Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale (SAS). Analysis of the data involved statistics including means, standard deviations, t-tests, and pearson's correlation coefficients. The results revealed that individual sport athletes scored significantly higher on conscintiousness and autonomy than did team sport athletes. The team sport athletes scored significantly higher on agreeableness and sociotropy than did the individual sport athletes. No significant difference was found between the two groups on neuroticism, extraversion, and openness. It can be concluded that athletes' personality characteristics are different for individual and team sports.