Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part E (2025)

The development of sports is considered as one of the social duties of governments towards citizens and one of the rights of citizens, and it is necessary to adjust policies and plans for the development and promotion of public sports in society in accordance with the needs and desires of citizens. Given the importance of the subject of this study, the aim of this study is to examine the development of the Sports Administration of Iraq according to the challenges of contemporary society. The statistical population includes participants in public sports in 2021 who were randomly selected. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that was first prepared and completed by consulting several experts and managers of physical education and sports and, after confirming its reliability, Cronbach's alpha method (86.0), was used. In this study, in order to study and describe the characteristics of the subjects, the variables of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics in Spss software were used. Also, the most important problems and obstacles to the development of public sports were lack of facilities (45.9%), lack of awareness of sports (29%), cultural and social problems (12.2%) and economic problems (10.4%). Finally, since some of the obstacles raised by society under study, such as economic problems, require medium- and long-term planning by the country's economic officials, so recognizing the factors affecting the development of public sports, such as incentives and barriers to sports participation, managers and planners will help take appropriate measures to remove obstacles.