Introduction: Football as the most popular sport in the world has profound impact on human life and has growing popularity. Also, it can be changed political, social and economic conditions. The aim of this study was to identify obstacles and factors of development in Mazandaran province selected football clubs in two axis of the human and technical sources.
Methodology: This research method in present study was mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) and the sampling was purposeful and available. In the qualitative phase performed semi-structured interviews with 20 patients of statistical sample and were identified obstacles and factors. The section of quantitative research was taken by descriptive analysis. In this section to rank obstacles and factors identified were discussed. Researcher made questionnaire was distributed between 150 people of the research statistical sample. Questionnaire that made of items identified in the interview and its questions was in three sections: demographic information, obstacles and factors development. The content validity was confirmed by the number of sports management professors and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis and ranking of obstacles and factors identified, the Friedman test and software SPSS 20 were used.
Results: Results showed that in human source axis, the main obstacles and factors were respectively, the lack of proper grounds for accepting talents and create meritocracy in clubs of province, also the technical axis main obstacles and factors were respectively, inappropriateness preparation training and tactical structures and use of science of the day to practice football.
Discussion: According to the results, it can be realized that football of Mazandaran province in these sectors is weak and football officials of the province should resolved mentioned problems to deliver province football to its deserved place.