Risk management in sports: A research on the risk assessment of the sportsmen in turkcell super league

The main goal of this study is to clarify the level of the sportsmen?s risk assessments in Turkcell Super League and to emphasize the importance of risk management in sports.The research has been performed as a general scanning model. The research population consisted of the sportsmen in Turkcell Super League in the season 2006-2007.A two-section survey including 30 questions was performed to get the research data. In the first section of the survey, there were questions about the sportsman?s age, marital status, educational background, age of professionalism and tenure of office in his club. In the second section, there were statements related to finance management, insurance management, facility management and injury management, each having five options and was required to be evaluated according to the Likert scale.SPSS 12.0 for Windows packet programme was used for the statistical analysis of the research data. In this analysis, the frequency distribution, the percentage, the mean, the standard deviations were used as statistical techniques. The One-Way ANOVA test was used to determine the level of risk assessment of the target group related to their age, educational background, age of professionalism and tenure of office in his club. The Independent-Samples T-Test was used to determine the level of assessment of the target group related to their marital status and other status. The quantitative data were tested with a level of significance of p<0.05.As a result of the research; a Risk Classification Matrix of Turkcell Super League was achieved and a meaningful distinction was found among the research group?s level of risk assessment in terms of educational background and status related to finance management, among their level of risk assessment in terms of age and age of professionalism related to insurance management, among their level of risk assessment in terms of their educational background related to facility management, among their level of risk assessment in terms of their age, educational background and age of professionalism related to injury management.The Key Words: risk, risk management in sports, the risk factors in sports, risk assessment, risk classification matrix