The objectivs of this research are to study the factors that affect the football gambling in Bangkok metropolis and find the way to protect and solve the football gambling's problem. The data of this research are derived from the football gambling players in Bangkok by using 150 sets of questionnair and 10 persons for in-depth interview. The statistical tools used in analyzing the data are frequency, percentage, average and chi-square test with the significant at 0.05 As the resalts, most of the samples are male with the average age of 34.15, Buddhist, Bachelor degree or Mattayom 6, married and be the head of the family. The occupations are government service and semi-government officer. The average income is 11,589.48 baht per month. These samples used to play the football gambling by average of 2.96 years with 4 times per month and with the amount of 3,430.60 baht per time by using cash for playment more over most of them play with the group of their friends and the second play with “the football table". They received the gambling's informations form the newspaper or magazine and never been cheated the money from the football gambling while all of them have never been caught befor. Factors affecting football gambling are as following : 1.The football competition are exciting in cheering ; thinking that football themselves are the sport not the crime ; playing football gambling as fashion ; accepting by the society and expecting to gain more income. 2. The characteristics of the football gambling are not waste time, convenient and easy to play. 3. The goodwill of the football team are composed of the superstar, the famous team manager and the old statistic of team that win more than lost.
