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Motivations of Football Fans in Singapore 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (Proceedings) Motivations of Football Fans in Singapore 1. Matthew, Mohan. Student. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected] 2. Ho Keat, Leng. Assistant Professor. Sports Marketing and Management, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected] Abstract Spectatorship of local football matches in Singapore has been on the decline. Football fans are now more likely to watch an English Premier League match on broadcast media than a local football game in the stadium. The purpose of this study is to find out the reasons why English Premier League (EPL) football fans in Singapore watch the EPL and to understand how those reasons can be applied to how local football clubs can attract more spectators to their games. A questionnaire adapted from Sport fans’ motivations: an investigation of Romanian soccer supporters (Izzo et al, 2011) was administered to 53 respondents who are fans of the English Premier League. The majority of the respondents were between 18 to 25 years of age (88.7%) and of male gender (81.1%). The results show that respondents watch football for Entertainment (Mean =4.42, SD=0.56), the Physical Skills of the players (Mean =4.38, SD=0.75), a sense of Vicarious Achievement (Mean =4.31, SD=0.79) and to a lesser extent for Escape (Mean =3.87, SD=0.92). More importantly, the findings show that spectators who are highly involved in Sport are more likely to watch English Premier League because it provides a sense of Escape (Mean High Involvement = 4.17, Mean Low Involvement = 3.11; t(51) = 4.39, p<0.01) and Entertainment (Mean High Involvement = 4.59, Mean Low Involvement = 4.00; t(51) = 3.85, p<0.01). The findings suggest that to attract spectators, local football clubs need to recruit more skillful players to provide higher levels of entertainment and sense of escape for spectators. In addition, local football clubs need to engage spectators to cultivate a sense of belonging to the club, subsequently leading to the sense of vicarious achievement. This is especially so if football clubs are targeting spectators who are highly involved in the sport. Keywords: Motivations, football fans Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, June 5-6, 2015 474 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (Proceedings) Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge the funding support for this project from Nanyang Technological University under the Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus (URECA) programme. Background The S-League is a professional league for men’s association football clubs. It was founded in 1996 as a means to produce more local footballing talents and improve the standards of local football. Initially, the league was well-received with the highest attendance recorded at 30,000 spectators. (S-League facts and figures, 2009) However, the attendance figures have been dropping over the years. The number of spectators dropped to its lowest point of 932 spectators in 2012. (Chin, G. 2014). Football fans in Singapore are now more likely to watch an English Premier League match on broadcast media than a local football game in the stadium. In 2011, the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia reached an agreement that would see greater co-operation between the two nations. One of the intended avenues would see the Under-23s play in the Malaysian Super League and Malaysia Cup from 2012 onwards, the first time a Singaporean team would be participating in a Malaysian domestic football league since 1994. This team was called the Lions XII. (Asiaone, 2011) The Lions XII’s return into the Malaysian Super League (MSL) has also affected the S- League as spectators find the MSL more exciting. The Lions XII in fact play good crowds when hosting their MSL counterparts but S-League attendances remain paltry. Objectives/Research Questions Given the popularity of English Premier League locally, the purpose of this study is to examine the reasons why English Premier League football fans in Singapore watch the English Premier League. This will allow us to see how local football clubs can Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, June 5-6, 2015 475 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (Proceedings) extrapolate findings to better implement strategies to attract more spectators to the local games by focusing on the motives of spectators in watching EPL matches. Spectators vary in their level of sport involvement and consequently have different propensities to consume sport. Marketers should focus their attention on current consumers and encourage them to be even heavier users (Mullin et al, 2014). In this study, differences in motives between spectators who are high and low in sports involvement will also be examined. Literature Review The motivations of football fans vary between culture, race and gender. Researchers have usually examined differences between genders (Wann, 1995). Male sport fans are more likely to be motivated by eustress (a positive stress that motivates the individual), self-esteem and aesthetics while female sport fans are more likely to be motivated by family needs such as spending time with loved ones (Wann, Schrader, Wilson, 1999). In Japan, seven aspects were identified to measure the motivation of J-League fans (Mahony et al, 2002). They were drama, vicarious achievement, aesthetics, team attachment, player attachment, sport attachment, and community pride. These seven factors were selected based on their applicability to the Japanese context. It was then found that team attachment and vicarious achievement had a significant and positive influence on attendance and motivation to watch football matches. Team attachment was defined through items that measured psychological commitment, team identification, and team importance. In another survey conducted among J-League and K-League fans, it was found that in accordance to (Mahony et al, 2002), team identification and vicarious achievement also were two main factors that affected attendance (Won & Kitamura, 2007). It was also discovered that escape (from reality) was a new reason that contributed to fans watching football in stadia. In Malaysia, the idea of loyalty was found to have been one of the attributes that have also been found to affect why individuals watch matches. This loyalty would usually assume the form of national pride and the one nation identity (Pilus & Husain, 2013). As Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, June 5-6, 2015 476 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (Proceedings) a result, placing “loyalty” elements was a suggestion cited to increase the involvement of spectators in the Malaysian league. This definition of loyalty overlapped with the idea of team attachment as defined in (Mahoney et al, 2002). Given that it has been well-established that team attachment does have a positive effect on fan motivation, we eliminated this item from our measuring scale. Furthermore, Singaporeans do not have such forms of loyalty in terms of nationalistic and geographical identification with Barclays Premier League. The footballing situation in Singapore is slightly different from that in Japan, Korea or even Malaysia. Given the lack of the popularity of the local league, the English Premier League is the footballing league of choice. It was found that 88% of respondents in a survey found that the S-league was boring and did not excite them. A further 96% felt that the English Premier League had the upper hand in terms of viewership in the country (Selvam, 2015). Hence, this study would differ from the prior three set in Asia as due to the specific circumstances in Singapore which are different from that in Malaysia, Korea or Japan. The results of (James, et al, 2006) found five factors that found a wide applicability to a range of sports. These were physical skill/ability, drama, escape, social interactions (family& others), and vicarious achievement and were modified in (Izzo et al, 2011). The concept of entertainment was also added. Entertainment is defined as items that represent the desire of some individuals to have a good time and enjoy the excitement associated with sporting events (Al-Thibiti, 2004). The 6 subscales were found to have good basis for application to this study despite the different cultural context and are closely aligned with those in (Mahony et al, 2002) as well as (Won & Kitamura, 2007). Hence, we felt that they were the most applicable to the study. However, it was decided that the concept of social interaction in (Izzo et al, 2011) should be removed as it largely referred to the attendance of matches at football stadia and would not be applicable to a Singaporean fan watching the English Premier League. Inversely, it was discovered that there has been a dearth of studies that explored the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, June 5-6, 2015 477 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences “ASEAN 2015: Challenges and Opportunities” (Proceedings) idea of how involvement in sport affected sports motivation. Hence, we decided to explore whether the level of Sports Involvement would affect one of the six factors. Research Methodology The survey instrument was adapted from an earlier study on the motivations of football fans (Izzo et al, 2011). The factors measured include Vicarious Achievement (3 items) eg “I feel like I have won when my football team wins”; Escape (3 items) eg “Football games provide me with an escape from my day to-day activities”; Drama (4 items) eg “I enjoy football games when the score is close”; Physical Skill (3 items) eg “I enjoy watching the skillful performances of football players”; and Entertainment (4 items) eg “I look forward to football games because they are exciting”.
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