Motivations and participation of female football supporters in Malaysia
List of Authors
  • Nur Hafizah Yusoff

Keyword
  • Female, Football Supporters, Motivations, Participation, Sociology

Abstract
  • Football has many spectators and fans around the world. Most of the spectators and fans are male rather than female. But nowadays e can see the increasing numbers of female fans attending to the stadium. Although Malaysia did not have a strong national football team and not in the best rank in the world, football is still Malaysian most favourite sport. Female fans also show their interested watching the game live in the stadium. They also buy tickets, spending their times to watch the team playing not only at the home but the away game. In fact, the management of the team also realizes that a female fan is increasing, and the management provides special counter tickets for female fans. Objectives of this article are to know what the female fans’ motivation are and how do they participate in their team. A total of 112 female football fans were chosen to be the respondents. The output from the survey showed 80.4% respondents said they started to support their team since last ten years, while 19.6% said they started to support the team over the past 10 years. The main motivation for them to go to the stadium are, to support their team (96.5%), meeting their friends (40.2%), release their stress (24.1%) and to watch and support their favourite players (25%). Numbers of 64.3% of respondents watching the game at home stadium, 32.1% watching and support their team in both home and away game.

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