Abstract:

To establish a healthy sports system it is necessary to understand the issues that sport clubs face. Current study aims to put forward the issues of amateur sport clubs. Study has exploratory characteristics. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain the data. Gathered by using “typical case” and “snowball” sampling methods the sample for the study included 76 sport club managers. Content analyses method is used for the data analyses. The relations of club issues, which were identified by content analyses, are created schematically through a cloud software. Findings points out that there are financial, organizational, legal, and managerial issues in clubs as well as the issues related to the personnel, facilities, and the equipment. Consequently, it is found that the issues in clubs reproduce themselves in a vicious cycle. Financial problems are at the base of all problems. The most significant issue feeding this problem is that the legislations cannot meet the needs.

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