The promotion of academic research is the foundation of the disciplines of knowledge and also is the base of the subject areas to expand. Therefore, the purposes of this study aimed at understanding the current status of sport management and analyzing the development trend of the sport management academic research in Taiwan. Literature review and content analysis were adopted to collect sport management research projects in physical education disciplines of the National Science Council and papers related to sport management from 2001 to 2011. A total of 936 samples were collected. It was found that the research topics of sport management was highly concentrated; co-authors' papers increased; and lacked for integration of research project. In terms of future study, the study proposes some approaches to develop sport management field: to develop the research topics; to establish research teams; to emphasize on research ethics; to expand sport management field; to integrate theory and practice; to identify the Taiwan's sport management position in the international sport management affairs.