Comparing to burnout level of professional and amateur football player

The aim of this study is to raise awareness about burnout syndrome which is not of sufficient importance in our country and to raise awareness of football players who are the most exposed individuals in the football sector. Besides, expressing the effects of professional and regional amateur league football players, and to reveal the differences between the dimensions of burnout syndrome among those leagues are other aspects of this study. In this study, "the sports burnout scale" developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Kelecek, et al. (2016) was used. The scale developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) consists of three sub-dimensions which are "emotional / physical exhaustion", "reduced sense of success" and "depersonalization". On the other hand, the scale adapted by Kelecek et al. (2016) into Turkish, consists of 13 items including "emotional / physical exhaustion", "reduced sense of success" and "depersonalization" (Appendix-3). The scale was evaluated in a 5-point Likert expression range (1 = never, 5 = always). The "emotional / physical exhaustion" dimension, which is one of the sub-dimensions of the scale, consists of 5 items (1.3.7.9.10. Expressions) which include "I feel extremely tired from doing sports" and "I feel exhausted in the sense of sport". The "reduced sense of success" dimension consists of 4 expressions (4.6.11.12.) including" I cannot accomplish much in sports" and " I feel successful in sports". The last dimension, "depersonalization", consists of 4 statements (2.5.8.13.expressions) in total that include "I am not in the sport as much as I used to" and "I have negative feelings for sports". The SPSS package program was used for data analysis. As a result of the analyses, a significant difference was found in professional and amateur footballers, marital status, playing in national team, age, education level, league and income variables, and no significant difference was found in position variables. Key Words: Football, Soccer Player, Professional, Amateur, Burnout Syndrome, Sport, Psychology