Examining the Opinions of the Students of School of Physical Education and Sports about Sports Sponsorship

This study is conducted to identify the opinions of Physical Education and Sports students toward sports sponsorship. Though the research is focused on identifying the opinions of the students, it is a survey-based descriptive research. The sample group has consisted of 136 students (66 female, 70 male) from Physical Education Teaching department at Mersin University Physical Education Sports in the 2016-2017 academic year. An opinion questionnaire towards sports sponsorship and a personal data form which, were developed by the researcher, were used as data collection tools. Frequency, percentages, means and standard deviation scores are used in the analysis of the research. According to the results, the students stated that sports sponsorship and sports marketing are important and necessary and sports sponsorship provides benefit to the sportsmen, teams, society, sponsor firms. On the other hand, they remarked that while sponsorship support comprises all sports branches, football is the most supported one