The purpose of the study an analysis of the main challenges to the development of football in the case of kelela wereda, the research method descriptive cross sectional survey, and mixed type approach was employed, Data utilized for the study have mainly been acquired through sample survey of (N= 134) participants. Among these, (N= 65) randomly selected football players from the four cluster and (N=7) comprehensive ;( N=8) community leaders selected by using simple random sampling and (N=54) sport committees were included, and the overall sampling technique is cluster sampling followed by simple random sampling methods, the data collected through questionnaires, interview and FGD. Descriptive (frequency distribution and percentage, mean) method of analysis has been utilized to analyze the data collected through questionnaire whereas the data from FGD and interview was analyzed through qualitative technique. The findings of the study indicated that the following major problems were dominant in the wereda football sport: the social impact in terms of less participation number of spectators and popularity, the enrollments of stakeholders by the general public, the investors and sport officers at all levels, and accountable administration, absence of permanent fund for the football sport, lack of sufficient football grounds, absence of professionals, less access and opportunity or available structure that could invite the private investors to attract to. As a general solution to the identified problems greater emphasis has to be given to the youth football in the area so that it could be possible to forward the football in the near future