EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOURCES OF INCOME AND THE SPORTS SUCCESS OF THE CLUBS IN THE INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Abstract

Today, due to the sports industry, the sports economy continues to grow rapidly. Professional football teams, which have one of the biggest share in sports economy, have various sources of income. There is an increase in the revenues of teams which are consistently in the football money league rankings over the course years. In this study; The relationship between the sports achievements of professional football clubs that can enter the international football money league and the income sources in the money league has been examined, and the main income sources of the sports clubs that are in the top 20 financially are compared. As a result of the data, it is seen that professional football teams have a positive relationship between the sporting success and the commercial product revenues (p=,011) and it is seen that sporting success has a positive effect (%54,2) on commercial product income. Data analysis was evaluated on computer. SPSS 17.0 (The Statistical Package for Social Sciences-PC Version 17.0) was used for statistical analysis of the data. The results of the research were interpreted as p≤0.05 in the 0.95 confidence interval. Simple linear regression analysis was performed to investigate the relationship between the dependent variable and one or more independent variables. As a result; it is predicted that the sports economy, which gets more and more share from the world economy, will provide more benefits to the professional football teams with high budgets. It is assumed that the diversity of the income sources of the teams that can maintain their place in the football money league will continue to increase.