The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of managerial

changes on the performance of football clubs in Iranian premier league. The

statistical population of present study contains all clubs which participated in 12

seasons of Iranian football clubs premier league from 2001 to 2013. The whole

data was extracted from the archive of premier league organization and Foolad

Mobarakeh Sepahan sport club. Improvement or degradation of football clubs in

each season compared to the previous season based on managerial changes or

stability has been investigated. The data was analyzed with one way ANOVA with

Gabriel post hoc test, and independent sample t test in significant lower than 0.05.

Results revealed that managerial stability had significant effect on improvement of

the performance, and successive changes of executive managers had significant

impact on degradation of performance. Results showed that managerial changes

caused a 2.48 decline in their rank on the league schedule, and managerial

stability caused a 1.00 improvement in their rank on the league schedule.

Generally analysis of results supported the hypothesis that managerial stability

provides enough time for implementation and realization of long term and short

term goals and final improvement on clubs performance.