In the last decade, Iranian researchers in the field of sports management have widely used contextual theory in their research. Considering the special features of this methodology, the main problem of the present research is that sports management research is based on contextual theory. What are their strengths and weaknesses? In order to answer the research problem, meta-methodology and systematic review technique were used. The studied population includes a collection of articles that have been published in domestic scientific research journals between 1395 and 1400, considering the focus of the main research problem on criticism and investigating the methodology of grounded theory based on Strauss and Corbin's approach in the source selection stage, 20 articles were selected and examined. The results of the research show that the mentioned research in the field of 16 criteria includes "conceptual framework, formulation of partial questions, subject population Study, description of data analysis steps in the findings section, simultaneity of data collection and analysis, category creation technique, category dimension recognition technique, title selection technique, core category selection technique, validation, comparison with other theories and theoretical sensitivity to problems These problems can be classified into five categories: technical challenges, gap between theory and method, goal distortion, lack of complete understanding of the fundamentals of the underlying theory, and paradigmatic challenge. According to the present research, it is hoped that researchers in the field of sports management Get more familiarity with this research method and conduct your research with specific principles and rules in the defined approach.