Determination of the levels of the football programs of the footballs in the Turkish professional football levels

Scanning Model has been used in this study, whose aim is to define the Turkish Professional Soccer Leagues' footballers' level of being influenced by the football programs. A survey has been used as a data collecting tool. Demographic information, composing the first part of the survey, is created by the researcher and the second part of the survey, making up 21 items, Levels of being Influence of Soccer Professionals by the football program in Turkish Professional Football Leagues has been developed by the researcher, too. Five point likertscale has been used to test the dependent variables. Degree of agreement is 'never' 'occasionally' 'sometimes' 'often' 'always'. The ranges are graded as, from positive to negative, 'always' (5), 'often' (4), 'sometimes'(3), 'occasionally'(2), 'never' (1). To test the answers' reliability, it has been carried out on 48 footballers playing in Elazığspor and Elaziz Belediyespor. Cronbach's alpha test was carried out by regarding 34 of 48 questions and α=0,918 was determined. The study has been carried out on 602 professional football players, playing in 30 clubs, 6 Super League, 8 PTT 1. League, 8 2.League, 8 3. League Teams connected with Turkish Football Federation.The scope of this study is the professional football players who play in the professional football teams.875 surveys has been distributed to football clubs and the correct 602 surveys has been taken into consideration. The data by the evaluation of the survey has been transferred to the computer by using SPSS 22.0 program. Demographic information and the frequency and percentages of answers to find out competence and educational background of football clubs' directors has been demonstrated on tables and they have been evaluated. Variance analyis has been used for comparing among the groups and Tukey test has been used for comparing in the groups as an analysis method. Consequently, it has been found in the study that the footballers between 16-20 age, described as young, have been influenced by the football program more. Also, it has been found out that the more the level of league, the lower the degree of influence of footballers, and if the league category is low, the footballers are influenced more by the critical programs made by the media. Keywords: Football, Professional Footballer, Television, Football Programs.