Nowadays, attracting, organizing and keeping volunteers are the important goals in sport management and human resources scope. The purpose of this study was surveying motivation, satisfaction and burnout among sporting volunteers in Iran. The population of this research consisted of 260 sport volunteers in Fars province sport committees. 74 individuals were selected as the sample of this study by cluster sampling. In this survey, we used four questionnaires (burnout questionnaire was developed and consisted of 21 items, motivation of volunteers questionnaire was developed by (24) and consisted of 27 items, satisfaction questionnaire of Omoto and demographic Questionnaire. The reliability was measured by alpha Cronbach (r=0.81, 0.87, 0.75) at P=0.05. The data were analyzed by the descriptive and deductive method that was tested by MANOVA and correlation tests. The findings showed that family-support factor was scored as highest and appreciation factor as lowest among volunteers. There was a meaningful relation between empowerment and family-support, perceived reward and appreciation. Also, satisfaction and burnout were higher in females than males. There was a meaningful relation between empowerment, lack of appreciation and perceived rewards to satisfaction. The results also showed a meaningful relation between religion, empowerment, perceived rewards and lack of appreciation in sport volunteer's burnout.
