View of Transfers in Professional Football in Turkey (original) (raw)

In Turkey or all over the world, millions of people follow football matches. Football, with its social and economic dimensions, has become multidimensional sport activity. This multidimensionality, like all over the world, also in Turkish football, brought differences in the context of transfers. The aim of this study is to examine the transfers of incoming and outgoing football players during 20 seasons by means of the method of social network analysis and measure regrading network analysis. The study was realized through 15658 transfer data as 7699 transfers, realized from 2000-2001 to 2009-2010, and 7959 transfers, realized from 2010-2011 to 2019- 2020. The data were analyzed by means of nodeXL Software. In 20 seasons, transfers made from Germany were relatively more compared to the other countries and, except Egypt, it was emerged that football players were bought more than we sold to all countries. In the threshold of 2010-2011/2019-2020, it was identified that while “Germany”, “Brazil”, “Belgium” came to our face as the top three countries, to/from which the most football players were bought and sold, in the threshold of 2010-2011- 2019-2020, “Germany”, “United Kingdom”, “France”, to/from which the most football players were bought and sold. Also, although the number of Turkey increases in the second threshold (2010-2011- 2019-2020) (+ 260), the number of transfer Turkey made within itself decreases (-521). Although Turkey buys and sells to/from many countries, it predominantly made transfer shopping with European countries and, in the last ten seasons, reduced the number of transfer with Brazil, the most exporting football players country of the world, in important rate. Structured Abstract: Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the transfers of incoming and outgoing football players during 20 seasons by means of the method of social network analysis and measure regrading network analysis. The study was realized through 15658 transfer data as 7699 transfers, realized from 2000-2001 to 2009-2010, and 7959 transfers, realized from 2010-2011 to 2019- 2020. Methots: In the study, transfers made over 20 years in Turkey Professional League were examined by means of measures regarding network analysis of the data. If there is transfer of football player from Turkey to any country, this is evaluated as outgoing transfer and if there is a transfer of football player from