Today, sports federations are responsible for the development of sports all over the world, and for survival, growth, performance improvement and competitiveness in the national and global arena, in today's dynamic environment, they seek to find a suitable strategy to manage and achieve the long-term goals of the sports organization. From the current research, the model of the effect of strategic knowledge management on strategic exploration in managers and experts of selected sports federations will be explained. The research method in terms of practical purpose and in terms of gathering information is a descriptive survey and the statistical population of the research includes all managers and employees of sports federations, the sampling method in this research will be random-stratified, so that first all federations It is divided into two groups of team sports and individual sports, then there are six federations of team sports that include (football, volleyball, handball, basketball, hockey, baseball) and six federations of individual sports (wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, karate, tennis). On the table, athletics) has been randomly selected as the total number of employees of Iranian sports federations (750 people) which was determined to determine the statistical sample from the table of Karjesi and Morgan 1970 (159 people). 250 questionnaires have been distributed to prevent the samples from falling. The tools used in the upcoming research are two strategic knowledge management questionnaires (Lopez and Maruner 2011) which will include eight items and two components (written knowledge - personal knowledge) and the strategic duality questionnaire (Johnsen et al. 2009) which includes fourteen items and two components. The component is (exploration_exploitation). Their reliability is respectively 73/. and 78/. Designated . Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency, etc.) will be used to analyze the data. Also, in the inferential statistics section (Pearson's correlation coefficient test) will be used to measure the relationship between variables and path analysis of structural equation modeling using SPSS 25 and LISREL 8.70 software. The results indicate the significant impact of strategic knowledge management on exploration (creativity) The use of strategic knowledge management has brought awareness to employees and discovered new opportunities and creative innovation in the organization and employees, and this issue has led to the development of performance and the achievement of a competitive advantage of sports federations compared to other sports federations.