Introduction: Today, scientists have come to the conclusion that in every area of the organization, human resources are the most important asset. In sport, as in the field of business, commitment of skilled manpower is due to creating competitive advantage and succeeds in the field of sport. The role of coaches in football and sport talent development is emphasized. So the research that is done in the context of commitment of coaches are not only takes an important steps to protect athletes in their sport careers, but also maintain an important sport patterns are called coaches. A lot of researches on different aspects of coaching and its impact on psychological conditions of athletes such as commitment have done. Seyed Hoseyni, Fathi and Broujerdi are showed in their research that coaches' leadership behavior affects on sport commitment, motivation and satisfaction of athletes (Fathi and Broujerdi, 1391). wylleman also showed that effective communication between coach and athlete plays an important role in motivation, commitment and sport performance of players. laios and his colleagues showed that coaches are realize, expertise and authority as the most important power bases and legislative power, the power of force and rewarded power are in the next category.
Methodology: This study is applied research and data are quantitative. 271 coaches among 925 AFC A Certificate holders participated in this research. Questionnaire of present research is derived from Scanlan et al. (1993) 37 questions with 5-point Likert scale that measures six effective factors on sport commitment. In this study descriptive statistics is used to analyze the data and structural equation model and Amos software were used to illustrate the model.
Result: Results showed that social support (= 0.74; ρ <0.001 β), social pressures (= 0.53; ρ <0.001 β), involvement opportunities(= 0.37; ρ <0.001 β) and alternatives (= 0.23; ρ <0.001 β) have effect on commitment of Iranian football coaches. Also there is not a significant relation among sport enjoyment and personal investment with sport commitment of coaches in football of Iran.
Conclusion: Therefore, using the role of social factors such as family, friends and fans can probably increase coaches commitment.