Journal of Sports Education

Abstract

Football coaches who are one of the main players of football labor market, during their professional process, they are exposed to market problems that seen in other labor markets. Unemployment, job search process, problems that concerning employment such as informal employment, contracts, market’s unique mechanism, status and instructions set by the federation, club, these are shaped in context of the relationship between administration and coach. In the market of football coaches, coaches are employed according to various criteria such as education status, whether they are licensed or not, their license degree, their experiences during the period of unemployment, whether there are any other source of income in their life, their transfer relations or contract duration and forms. Purpose of this study to reveal general working relationships of coaches on the basis of employment of football coaches market. In this study survey technique was applied to obtain data on the working relationships of football coaches. Survey questions prepared by us. Data that we obtained were evaluated in SPSS statistical program; it has been resolved with frequency and cross tables. From this point this research is a descriptive research since it is aimed at revealing the general situation of the market. Findings are included demographic characteristics concerning the performance of the profession such as coaches license degrees, their football history, education status in the findings section of the study; quantitative and qualitative findings on working relations. As a result of this research it turns out that they have experiences unemployment in every way, they are cancelling the contract before the contract expires, there are some job insecurity of coaches with resignations due to economic and social conditions and coaches do not work in categories that are suitable for the classification.