Challenges to Develop Sport for All, Professional and Vocational, Women’s and Educational Sports in Yazd Province

The study is to identify the challenges to physical education and sports development in Yazd province. Therefore, sport in the province was divided into four categories: sport for all, professional and vocational, women’s and educational sports. The research samples were 70 executives of Sports and Youth Offices and Education Organizations and their informant colleagues throughout Yazd Province. To collect the data, at first 53 Unstructured (In-depth) Interviews and then Structured Interviews were done. A face-to-face questionnaire was used to have more precise information. So, the method of the study was a qualitative one. Content analysis and comparison of both parts of interviews were used to interpret findings.The findings indicated that financial, socio-cultural, human resources, patronage, sport for special groups, talent identification, and inequity in sports and planning are the most important challenges in order to develop the sport and physical education in Yazd province. In addition, a number of suggestions are proposed to handle the mentioned challenges.