The aim of the present study is to identify thefactors affecting the governance of the world of sports.The research method is mixed and of a sequential exploratory type.The data collection methodwas a study of upstream documents and semi-structured interviews with 15 people, including sports management professors, managers andexperts of sports teamsat the national level, and expert employees in the Ministry of Sports and Youth.Which was done using a snowball sampling method. In order tocollect information, the researcher reached theoreticalsaturation by conductingfifteen semi-structured interviews.In a small part of all employees of sports federations and elite athletes,248 people were selected as samples using a simple random sampling method. Through the information received from the interviews andcoding through MAXQDA software, the questionnaire was designed and its construct validitywasconfirmedthroughconfirmatoryfactoranalysis. Also, using AMOS software, the final research model was presented.In the present study,factors such as social responsibility, ethics, knowledge-based, environmental factors, commercialization of sports, politicization, interactionism,sports diplomacy, specialization, development of the sports industry, and globalization of sports were identified ashaving an impact on sportsgovernance.The results of the study showed that factors such as social responsibility, ethics, knowledge-based, environmental factors,politicization, interactionism, sports diplomacy, specialization, development of the sports industry, and globalization of sports have a positiverole and impacton the governance of the world of sports, and commercialization of sports has no impact on the governance of the world ofsports.Therefore,sports officials should pay special attention to factors that have a positive impact on the governance of the world of sports and provide the basis for strengthening them.