Explanation of the Iranian Premier League business model based on Osterwalder ontology

Sport industry by having many capabilities in holding sports events, especially in the field of professional leagues has a great ability to generate income. The Premier Football League is one of the most important businesses in the Iranian sports industry. Therefore, addressing this issue is one of the issues that is very necessary for the country's sports industry. The present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the business model of the Iranian Football Premier League in two parts with two qualitative and quantitative approaches. The qualitative part was done with the help of MAXQDA software by phenomenological method and by using semi-structured interviews by interpreting the views and impressions of 30 experts who were selected by snowball method. In this section, the business canvas of the Iranian Football Premier League was obtained based on Osterwalder ontology. The quantitative part was conducted using a standard questionnaire and the participation of 80 informed people as a research sample who were selected by purposive non-random sampling method. Data analysis in this section was performed using Smart PLS software. The results showed that there is no significant relationship between key partners with the structure of costs and key resources, customer segments with revenue stream and key resources with the proposed values and distribution channel. The results of the present study are a roadmap for structural pathology and developing compensatory strategies to create an integrated structure and a comprehensive communication framework in all aspects of the Iranian Football Premier League business canvas.