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Organizational commitment is a psychological condition which is ‘‘describing the relationship between employee and organizations’’ and ‘‘providing to maintain the employee’s decision to stay in the organization’’. It is stated that an important factor in organizational commitment effort of the people for general purpose and in terms of for feeling itself as part of a group. Organizational commitment is thought to be important since sport has become as a sector which increasing day by day among the people of the place and importance and people in the sport trend to a common goal through organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to determine the effect on the level of organizational commitment, level of organizational commitment and individual differences the athletes who play as active in amateur level within the boundaries of province Bolu. Research was desingned in the relational screening model and data were collected using survey. In this study was used three-dimensional organizational commitment scale (Affective Commitment,Continuance Commitment, Normative Commitment) to determine organizational commitment what was developed by Allen-Meyer and adopted to Turkish by Wasti (2000). Research consist of 144 athletes who play active football in the amatur leagues 2013-2014 season in the province Bolu and who paticipated to the research voluntarily. In addition population and study sample is the same. Average age of the athletes is 21,78 and averaga football age is 9,26. As a result of the statistical analysis, no significant differences were found in terms of organizaitonal commitment dimensionals, the level of satisfaction from clup facilities, the level of satisfaction supporting from team-mates and the level of dialog with clup managment (p>0.05). Hovewer significant differences were found the dimensions of the affective and normative commitment dialog level differences with sporty responsibles p<0.05). Significant diffrences were found dimension of the continuance commitment education level difference (p<0.05) furthermore negative significant were found between age, education and football age with continuance commentment. Consequently, rather than clup managments and clup facilities , sporty responsibles are more effective on the commitment level for amatuer football players. It could be said as a cause of this that, football players and sporty responsibles are in direct relation to each other. In addition it could be said that, the higher the age and football age tend to feel compulsion to team by themselves decrease.

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