Abstract:
This study explains the impacts of the Ethiopian premier league's new league approach. The Ethiopian premier league was held in the five selected cities. The total subject for the study was two hundred forty (n=240) Men Ethiopian premier league participant players, coaches, coaching staff, and club leaders. All participant clubs in 2013 and 2014 E.C were included in this study. This study used three sampling techniques; first, all participant teams select by using the compressive sampling technique, second, the participant teams were grouped into two in a cluster sampling technique those were home and away teams, and finally from 600 total populations select 240 participant subjects in a purposive sampling technique based on Yamane sample size determination. The data were collected through open-ended and close-ended questionaries and interviews. The quantitative data were analyzed by using Independent sample t-test statistical tools SPSS version 23 with a significance level of 0.05, and the qualitative data were analyzed by narration. Based on the analyzed data, the home teams benefited more than the away teams significantly from the impact of the Ethiopian premier league new league approach on the match result, economic impact, and psychological influence variables (p=0.001, p>0.05). The result of the study shows that five teams had the chance to play on their field (home) team and they were advantageous, and the remaining eleven teams had not the chance to play on their field (away) teams and they were disadvantageous in this new league approach. Therefore the study recommended that away teams should build standardized fields, and the Ethiopian football federation needs to consider and restore the regular league system.