The Privatization of Some Sports Clubs and Their Administrative and Economic Dimensions in Iraq

Abstract

As it is known to all that the Iraqi sports clubs are a governmental institution that receives salaries or grants from the government to contract with players and to provide the requirements of these clubs, while the clubs in the developed world pay taxes to the state estimated at millions of dollars annually. Here, we must try seriously to reduce the depletion of state funds due to the expenditures of sports clubs, which have become a burden on the state instead of being one of the economic tributaries of the state that works to increase its annual revenues, as sports must be transformed from an item of expenses to an item of revenue, and through this study it turns out that we are still thinking in the traditional , which is predominantly emotional and the principle that sport is the right of everyone, and sports institutions must remain available and open to all free of charge. However, after the rapid development of the sports world and the light of Globalization and the privatization of some facilities by countries and the success of those experiments on an ascending basis, it became clear that there is no escaping the privatization of sports and taking the path of full professionalism from the privatization of assets, management and all other facilities, because sports have transformed from stadiums to the world of finance and investment. The privatization of clubs must be accompanied by a parallel line with the establishment of special sports channels to support sports transparently, on the best technologies, transfer them in an appropriate manner and promote them in order to increase the income streams of the clubs, through commercial advertisements.if the purpose is developing the level of sports in order to get Arab sports out of the bottleneck and to advance the application of full professionalism, and transforming clubs into commercial entities.