A STUDY ON SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS BETWEEN INTERCOLLEGIATE MENS AND WOMENS FOOTBALL PLAYERS

This paper was conducted to investigate the difference in socio economic status between intercollegiate mens and womens foot ball players. The participants were a team of football players (N = 30) from Manipur 15 mens and 15 womens players who had participated in the Manipur University Intercollege Football Tournament 2025-26, which was held at Manipur, India. The sample for this study was selected through a purposive sampling technique. The data was collected using a Social Economic Status Scale (SESS) developed by R.L. Bharadwaj in 2005. From the results of the data analysis, it can be concluded that the women's football players had better socio-economic conditions than the mens football players in overall socio-economic condition as measured by the socio-economic status scale and also in all the sub-dimensions of the scale, such as family perspective, professional perspective, total assets, and caste perspective, except in education and income perspective.