Growth and development in cities in addition to financial resources and economic and social growth requires efficient urban management. Today urban management has many challenges. In this study the challenges facing urban management have been researched and the most important goal is to measure and rank the challenges of urban management in Kermanshah. The present study has been done with a descriptive-analytical approach in terms of applied purpose and the method of data collection is based on the library method and field survey (questionnaire) of the findings based on surveys and interviews with 15 experts. In urban affairs the city of Kermanshah which was estimated using a simple random sampling method. In this study low level components of life and social development political and structural conflicts of centralized government system and decentralized urban management nature conflict of local urban management with macro-administrative system uncertainty of organization and inter-organizational relations of urban management uncertainty of organization and the internal relations of urban management inefficiency of urban management laws shortage and vacuum of specialized human resources have been analyzed through PROMETHEE visual software in order to prioritize effective criteria in urban management. Findings are based on a survey and interviews with 15 experts from urban affairs departments and other bodies related to urban management in Kermanshah to determine the superiority and weighting functions of the indicators and finally their ranking using the vp model. According to the ranking of components the inefficiency index of the rules with pH + 1. Has the highest weight and the index of organizational relations with a weight of 0.00 ph. +. They have the lowest priority scoring challenges for urban management which requires serious attention of city managers and decision makers.