Abstract:

Nowadays, billions of people are following football game all over the world. The game has become multi-layered sport activity with social, economic, and politic dimensions. This multi-dimensional point has attracted attention in Turkish sport public as well as all over the world. Foreign football players in the world football leagues are one of the issue that discussed in Limiting foreign players is started at 1951 in Turkish football Doğan et al., 2004, s.32 and it has been discussed since then today in Turkish sport public The purpose of this research was considering positive or negative effects of foreign football players that played in Turkish professional football leagues on Turkish football under sport public opinion. The results of the research regarding sport public opinion indicated that high number of foreign football player increased the quality of football and promotion of Turkish league, increased the competitive strength of Turkish teams in international organisations on club basis. Also, participants believed that foreign players contribute promotional activities of Turkey, and development of football market. On the other hand, participants believed that, numerous foreign players have negative effects on economic situations of clubs, as well as on national team, and youth set up.

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