Girls' Tendency to Watch Football Matches in the Stadium and the Factors Affecting It

Today, women's access to social spaces and areas is one of their most important concerns. This study aims to investigate the tendency of women to watch men's soccer and the factors affecting it. The population of the study is "all girl students of Tehran Universities in 2018". The sample size estimated by Cochran formula is 495 persons. Finally, data were collected through questionnaire by multistage cluster sampling from four universities including Allameh Tabataba'i, Tehran, Shahid Beheshti University and Azad University of Science Research. In terms of girls' tendency to go to the stadium, about 15 percent of them would never go if the stadium was opened, 25 percent were skeptical, and 65 percent were willing to go to the stadium. This finding, along with the condition of watching football matches on television, reflects a rethinking of women's identities as they move from "watching football" to "becoming a footballer". Also among the social factors influencing the tendency of girls, in the first stage, their agency can be analyzed more at the individual level with the aim and experience of excitement and in the second level as reducing the limitations of the political system towards women in the society. Some of the prominent feminist attitudes serve two previous purposes.