The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative importance of professional sports clubs' brand value evaluation factors. For this study, professional sports clubs' brand value evaluation factors were extracted by using delphi method with pro ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative importance of professional sports clubs' brand value evaluation factors. For this study, professional sports clubs' brand value evaluation factors were extracted by using delphi method with professional sports clubs' officials, sport management and marketing instructors, sport media officials, professional sports leagues' officials and corporate sponsorship managers who have expert knowledge and experience regarding pro-sports club's brand. The relative importance of brand value evaluation factors were verified by using AHP.
The results of this study were as follows:
Firstly, as results of delphi method, professional sports clubs' brand value evaluation factors were divided into 7 evaluation areas with 35 items in total(6 items of financial status, 4 items of awareness, 5 items of loyalty, 5 items of image, 6 items of grade, 6 items of stadium and 3 items of media exposure)
Secondly, as results of AHP, the priorities of the evaluation areas were grades, awareness, loyalty, financial status, image, media exposure, stadium.
The priorities of the stadium were convenience of watching, convenience of toilet, conveniece of parking lot, amenity, concession stand, subsidiary facilities.
The priorities of media exposure were frequency of exposure on portal sites, frequency of TV exposure, frequency of exposure on printed media.
The priorities of grades were experience of champion, seasons' grades during the past 5 years, season ranking, star players, players' personal records, awareness of head coach.
The priorities of image were uniqueness, distinctions, individuality, image of fans, freshness.
The priorities of awareness were public awareness, familiarity, brand information, distinguishment.
The priorities of financial status were ticket revenue, sponsorship revenue, players' salary, advertising revenue, sales revenue, marketing cost.
The priorities of loyalty were attachment, preference, re-visit intention, intention of additional cost payment.
Lastly, experience of champion showed the highest relative importance(11.2%) in whole evaluation items. Experience of champion showed 3.1% higher than seasons‘ grades during the past 5 years(8.1%) which was the second priority in whole items, and 22 times bigger than subsidiary facilities(0.5%) which showed the lowest priority.