Background: PKO Grassroots Festival IV 2026 is a youth soccer development program, which also offers a hands-on educational experience for students in sports event administration. Objectives: This study seeks to assess the management of the PKO Grassroots Festival IV 2026 using the Context, Input, Process, Product (CIPP) model. Method: A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used in this investigation. Quantitative data were obtained from 34 organizing committee members and 18 coaches of participating football schools, using 16 item five-point Likert scale questionnaires. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with five key informants selected through purposive sampling. The quantitative data were analyzed descriptively, while the qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Convergence and divergence between quantitative results and qualitative themes were used to integrate the findings. Result: The committee (97.06%) and coaches (80.55%) rated the Context dimension most positively, whereas the Process dimension was rated very similar (86.11% and 84.72%, respectively). The greatest difference between stakeholders was found in the Product dimension, with positive assessments from 88.89% of the committee members and 65.28% of the coaches, representing a difference of 23.61 percentage points. Qualitative findings revealed that the festival offered educational and competitive benefits and identified areas for development, namely referee consistency, competition equipment, support facilities and participant services. Stakeholders perceived fingerprint-based verification as a management innovation intended to strengthen the participant identification process, while its quantitative usefulness in reducing age or identity fraud was not demonstrated. Conclusion: The PKO Grassroots Festival IV 2026 was positively assessed across all CIPP dimensions, however the substantial discrepancy in Product assessments points to a gap between organizational performance and participant experience. Future festival management should therefore be based on organizational and implementation strengths and improvements of participant-facing amenities, competition services and technical match management.
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