Introduction: On the basis of economic theories, risk index is very effective on transfer and movement of capital, so that anywhere that the rate of investment risk is high capital movement to their become slow. Indeed risk index represents economic, political and social situation. Sponsorship (as a kind of foreign investment) for support of the sport event examine kinds of variables such as economic, political, social environment of place for investment. The studies have showed that exist foreign investment in sport industry of European and even Asian countries such as Japan, in despite of definition such financial sources in Sport Plan of Iran but Iran sport has remained deprive of financial income. One of the most important variables foreign investment attraction is institutional situation of place for investment, researcher decided to examine the affecting institutional factors on foreign investment attraction in Premier League Futsal Iran.
Methodology: The population and sample consisted of 146 all managers and board of directors members of professional clubs of the Premier League Futsal, sport federation executive board members. The data for this study were gathered through one questionnaire. A validation study was conducted by management experts and the reliability was measured through Cronbach α-coefficient α=0.93. The gathered data were analyzed through Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson correlation coefficient and factor Results: There is a positive significant relationship between 6 factors and foreign investment attraction in Iran sport industry. based on loading factor among affecting factors on improvement of present status loading factors of legal-civil, economical, managerial-human, information-marketing is higher than 0.5 and incentive support and cultural-social is higher than 0.4.
Discussion: Affecting institutional barriers on foreign investment attraction in futsal are divided to two general categories: inside and outside of futsal environment. External environmental factors are caused by policies of centers that make decisions for sport of country. Eliminating of such barriers need to update definition in sport policy and cooperation, coordination between centers that make decisions for sport of country. Eliminating of internal barriers need to update definition and changes in strategically and operational planning, elimination and reforms such as economic, financial, legal in institutions of sport industry. Since the first step for foreign investment attraction is privatization and since in Iran almost all of sport structure are dependent to government, it is necessary for managers and planners to pay deep attention to privatization for attraction of kinds of investors and transnational companies in the sport industry