The purpose of this research was to study the reasons of Iranian football clubs failure in the Asian football champions’ league. The research was descriptive and its population included managers and coaches that were familiar with football. A research-made questionnaire was used to collect data; its content and face validity was confirmed by 10 sport management and football experts and tool reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha (α=0.84). The information of 105 distributed questionnaires was analyzed by Friedman test. The results showed that among 5 components (management and organizing, coach and technical staff, the external components, players, economic and financial), the management and organizing component have the greatest roles in the success of football clubs. It is suggested that aware and experienced managers and coaches in sports, spend most of their attention for grassroots football and setting long-term plan for teams.
