Mega-analysis of key trends affecting the future of women's professional sports with a structural equation modeling

Women's professional sport is considered as one of the challenges in the field of sports in the country. In order to overcome this situation and present its development in the future, it is necessary to provide an early warning system in this regard and review the progress of that program. this study has identified and clustered trends affecting the future of Iranian women's professional sports in the future. This research is descriptive-analytical in terms of applied goal setting strategy and its method and explanatory based on futures research methods. Theoretical data were prepared by documentary method and experimental data by survey method based on Delphi method. Participants in the study were 20 experts and specialists in the field of women's sports who were selected by purposive sampling. The results showed that the distribution of key variables affecting the future of women's professional sports in Iran has an unstable system and among the 40 factors studied in this study, 12 factors (capital adequacy, private sector participation, income generation and commercialization of women's sports Government investment, attracting financial capital, increasing income level, increasing power and presence of women in sports, increasing the number of sports clubs in the field of women's sports, community support for the development of women's sports, increasing women covered by championship sports, support The media and gaining a quota in the Olympics) played a key role in the future of women's professional sports.