MANAGEMENT OF PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 IN OPERATING THE THAI FOOTBALL LEAGUE SEASON 2021/22

Abstract

The purposes of Management of Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Operating the
Thai Football League Season 2021/22 was to 1) study the preventing the spread of COVID-19
in operating the Thai Football League and 2) study of social confidence in measures to prevent
the spread of COVID-19 of the Thai Football League Season. Taro Yamane’s formula was
applied to deliver the sample size. 400 samples were obtained by the convenience sampling
process. The statistics used for data analysis consisted of frequency, percentage, means,
standard deviation and regression analysis was applied for hypothesis testing.
The results revealed 3 dimensions detailed in 20 items that described the preventing the
spread of COVID-19 in operating the Thai Football League Season 2021/22. The first
dimension was players consisted of 3 items, secondly, free environment with consisted of 14
items, and thirdly customer consisted of 3 items. From 3 dimensions with 20 items, no item
had mean score below 4.0 (on the 5-point Likert scale), indicating that, overall, respondents
were confident in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in Thai Football League operations. The
average mean score across all 20 was 4.72. “Screening” item in Customer dimension item had
the highest mean score (M = 4.78; SD = 1.15), and the “Distancing” item in Free Environment
dimension had the lowest mean score (M = 4.13; SD = 1.57). For all dimensions, the highest
average mean score was also Players (M = 4.53; SD = 1.41) and followed by Customer (M =
4.23; SD = 1.29). The lowest average mean score was Free Environment (M = 4.18; SD =
1.31).

Keyword - Operating management, Management of Preventing, Thai Football League