ISSA2018 World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Lausanne, İsviçre, 5 - 08 Haziran 2018, cilt.1, ss.127, (Özet Bildiri)
Vıolence and Sport: The Case of Professıonal Football in Turkey Veysel Küçük1, Pınar Yaprak Kemaloğlu2, Bertuğ Uygunkara1 1Faculty Of Sport Science, MARMARA UNIVERSITY/Turkey, 2Faculty Of Sport Sciences (recreation & Sport Management Departments), Gazi University/Turkey Violence in sport is not only inescapable regardless of all kinds of measures, research and regulations; contributors to the epidemic of violence are on the increase as well. The purpose of this research is to analyze some of the violence related records in Turkish professional football games regarding the managers, technical personnel, coaches, players and fans. For this aim, we analyzed the punishment records of 127 professional football clubs took part during the 20142015 and 2015-2016 Turkish professional football seasons. Total 1156 games within the respective team’s league were examined in terms of the punishments given to the managers, technical personnel, coaches, players and fans. The types of fouls considered were the ten behaviors in total defined within the football disciplinary regulations regarding violence and aggressive behaviors such as unsportsmanlike conduct, unsportsmanlike statements, unsportsmanlike conduct as a team, attack on personal rights, threatening, spitting, discrimination and ideological propaganda, fouls-attacks-fight, field incidents and fans using foul language. Other types of punishment were excluded. According to results, %39.01 of the 781 punishments during the 2014-2015 season and %37.80 of the 756 punishments during the 2015-2016 season were (co)performed by managers, technical personnel, coaches and players. The representations of violence and tendency to violence or aggressiveness were identified in Turkish Professional football leagues and, these representations, practices or behaviors were observed repeatedly. Issues regarding these various forms of violence and measures and the changes needed at different levels to tackle them were discussed. Keywords: Aggressive Behavior, Soccer, Coach, Manager, Violence