Athletes who are competing amateur volleyball league senior me and women category expectations of clubs

The aim of this study is to determine the expectations of sportsmen/sportswomen who are competing in Konya division amateur volleyball league senior men/women category from their clubs.The environment of this study consists of sportsmen/sportswoman who are are competing in Konya division amateur volleyball league senior. Sample occurs 133 sportsmen/sportswoman who has joint this study.In the point of this aim, related literature has been searched and a questionnaire has been prepared by getting the view of specialists as data collecting tool. This questionnaire has been arranged in two parts. Totally there are 35 questions in this questionnaire. In the first part which has been arranged with classic method by listing articles, questions about general or personal information has taken place (7 questions). In the second part which includes Likert type questions related with playing volleyball(5 questions), choosing volleyball branch (7 questions), support of the club to volleyball (7 questions), sufficiency of coach and working conditions (9 questions) has taken place.In the end of this research, the data which are compiled by Ms Excel have been transferred to SSPS program on Ms Windows for statistical operations. Chi-square test been performed on SSPS as suitable statistics test to data compiled nominally. Obtained results are presented and interpreted by tables.In the point of obtained data, it is seen that the biggest reasons of playing volleyball are making a good environment (P<0.05), acquiring subsistence and earning money (P<0.05). Encouragement of family and friends (P<0.05) is the biggest reason of preferring volleyball branch . On the other hand, it is seen that the press is not effective enough in preferring volleyball branch (P<0.05).It is determined that the sportsmen/sportswomen find the monetary support of the clubs insufficient (P<0.05). On the other hand, they have the enough support related with training hall etc. from their clubs(P<0.05). Also it is determined that coaches who train teams are efficient enough (P<0.05) but working hours and workload are insufficient (P<0.05).In this study, some suggestions will be made about improving current possibilities and removing current insufficiencies by determining expectations of sportsmen/sportswomen from their clubs.