Purpose: The strategy plan for talent identification of athletes plays an important role in talent identification and improving the performance of athletes. Therefore, the purpose of the current research was to examining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes based on the SWOT method and providing strategies for them.
Materials and Methods: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive. The research population was experts and managers of the billiards federation, coaches of national and club billiards teams and heads of the talent identification committee, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 13 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposive sampling method. Data were collected by semi-structured interview and research-made questionnaire and analyzed by weighted average and rank methods in SPSS software.
Findings: The findings showed that for the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes were identified 12 strengths, 29 weaknesses, 18 opportunities and 8 threats. Also, the evaluation of the internal factors of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes showed that the amount of attention to strengths in compared to weaknesses was higher, and the evaluation of its external factors showed that the amount of attention to opportunities in compared to threats was higher. Finally, according to the analysis of internal and external factors were designed strategies for them.
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, the attention of managers and officials to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes can have appropriate consequences.