The goal of present study was to analyze and compare the viewpoint of university professors and managers that holding Federations' sports matches, regarding the competencies of sports events' managers. This study was descriptive and scaling survey, and has been conducted as a field research. Statistical society includes 39 university professors with more than a three-year experience in teaching, in courses related to the management of sports events, and 64 managers that were involved in holding Federations' sports events and the statistical model was equals to statistical society. The COSEM questionnaire of the competencies of sports events' managers (Toh, 21) was our means for collecting data. The liability of the questionnaire content was confirmed by university professors, and its reliability ratio was 0.87. In order to determine the important factors in the competency of sports events' managers, the agential-conformational analysis with Varimax rotation was used. Also, to compare professors' views with those of sports events' managers, we used T test for independent groups. The results showed the most important competencies for sports events' managers include; planning techniques, event management, sports sites and sport facilities management, and event's research & marketing management. Also, there was not a meaningful difference between the viewpoints of university professors and the managers who hold Federations' sports events, about competencies of sports events managers.
