The purpose of the study was to define the chronical aspect of the sport event and suggest timeline concepts include the work scope of the sport event organization. For accomplish the research goal, literature review on time frame of sport event and the in-depth interview(n=23) was fulfilled. The results of this study were as follows; 1) the time based concept and the perception of the point of phase transition is different in each functional area, 2) the sport event time-frame could be categorized in ex ante Event stage, Event operation stage and ex post Event stage as general and the Event operation stage was departmentalized in preparation phase, Game delivery phase and closure phase. As a result, this study suggested the transition criterion in each phase. Limitations and future directions for real time sport event organization were discussed.
