One of the disciplines of sports science. A discipline that studies the coordination of sports organizations by using management theories and methods to achieve predetermined sports goals. Because the management system is mainly composed of managers, managed objects and management means, its research objects include managers and managed people, wealth, materials, time, information and management forms and methods. The contents include: the basic principles of sports management; The development history of sports management; Sports management system; The function of sports management; The process and method of sports management; Management forms and methods of various sports. In practical application, field classification is often used, namely, school sports management, competitive sports management, mass sports management and so on. Research methods mainly include observation, investigation, experiment, comparison, analysis and case study.

1. Interdisciplinary construction

Sports management is to observe and solve problems in the field of sports with the knowledge of management science, and it is a departmental management science, which is manifested as the intersection of management science and sports science. But only discussing this level seems superficial, and we should further discuss the intersection from two aspects: cognitive system and method system.

As far as cognitive system is concerned, besides the influence of system philosophy, many scientific theories at all levels in sports science system are the main basis for constructing sports management cognitive system. Sports is a special phenomenon of human culture, which has unique characteristics different from other fields. The discussion of sports problems must start from the unique perspective of sports, and if we abandon and deviate from this basic point, we will not find the essential law of sports activities. A manager who knows nothing about sports practice, even a successful manager, can hardly succeed in the field of sports. We can't even imagine what the result of sports training will be with the understanding of enterprise management. However, while insisting on the leading position of sports science, management science obviously provides a necessary supplement for the construction of sports management knowledge system. Management science provides another way for sports workers to observe, understand and solve problems in the field of sports, changes people's traditional views on sports phenomena and enriches the cognitive system of sports management workers. Therefore, the cognitive system of sports management science has the characteristics of organic intersection of sports science cognitive system and management science cognitive system.

As far as the intersection of methods and systems is concerned, different levels of scientific theories, methods and technologies in the modern management science system constitute the most basic methodological basis of sports management. Without a rich and effective method system of management science, sports management cannot progress. At the same time, we should also see that the effective management methods summed up by human beings in the process of sports practice, such as the management of venues and equipment, sports training, etc., are not available in modern management theories focusing on management industries and enterprises. They are also one of the sources of modern sports management method system. Therefore, in the method system, the characteristic of sports management is the organic integration of management scientific method system and sports scientific method system.

Sports management is based on the organic intersection and integration of sports science and management. This kind of construction is by no means a complete transplant of management knowledge into sports, nor a simple pile of sports knowledge and management knowledge, but a hierarchical construction after reasonable selection and scientific processing from the rich cognitive system and method system provided by the two.

2. The comprehensiveness of the subject foundation

Although sports management is a kind of human social practice, it is obviously not enough to solve sports management problems only with the knowledge of social science. We should also learn from the research results in natural science, thinking science, humanities science, system science and many other fields. Only by comprehensively applying multidisciplinary knowledge can we reveal and reflect the complex laws of sports phenomena and achieve satisfactory results. For example, the management of venue equipment pursues the process of how to achieve the best effect with the least resources, obviously with the help of natural science knowledge such as mathematics; The control of athletes' training process should be based on the research results of human science; The training and management of athletes' sports intelligence should refer to the latest progress of thinking science and psychological science; The goal of sports management is the overall effect, pursuing "1+1>"; 2 "Holism, which is obviously the research category of system science. Therefore, sports management involves many disciplines such as natural science, social science, thinking science, human science, psychological science and system science. In this sense, the discipline foundation of sports management is more comprehensive.

3. Soft science with disciplinary attributes

Soft science is a new discipline that comprehensively applies the theories and methods of natural science, social science, humanities and mathematics to solve all kinds of complex social phenomena and problems brought about by the development of modern scientific and technological production and provide satisfactory decision-making schemes for the coordinated development of economy, society and science. Based on multi-disciplines, sports management studies the operation and evolution law of sports as a social phenomenon, and its value orientation is to provide decision-making schemes for the coordinated development of sports. In this sense, it obviously belongs to the category of soft science. However, it must be noted that soft science does not mean that sports management only uses qualitative "soft methods" to study "soft systems", and soft science needs efforts. Sports management not only studies how to coordinate the relationship between people and sports practice, so as to create a harmonious management atmosphere and give full play to collective strength, that is, to explore the law of sports "soft system", but also to study how to rationally distribute materials and wealth to achieve the greatest effect and efficiency, that is, to explore the law of sports "hard system". Sports "soft system" management pursues "satisfactory" management effect, and mainly adopts soft system research methods, such as physical education class's teaching process management and sports training process monitoring. People don't have the standard to judge the optimal result, so they can't get the optimal result. The management process is the process of pursuing the "satisfaction" of both the manager and the managed. Sports "hard system" management, such as venue equipment management, sports fund management, sports industry management, etc., pursues the best management effect, and the methods adopted are mainly accurate, rigorous, standardized and logical quantitative scientific methods.