THE ECONOMY OF FOOTBALL IN THE CHANGING WORLD: AN ANALYSİS OF FOOTBALL ECONOMY (1980-2020)

Abstract

In this study, a research has been made on the economic structure of football which is one of the most important tools of popular culture. In the first part of the study, a literature review has been made about the development of football, which has started at the beginning of the 19th century and turned into a big economy. In the main part of the article, the developments in the economic structure of football for the forty-year period between 1980-2020 are examined. The fact that football is a sector and the change in its economic structure has been investigated for the last forty years. In this forty-year period, the factors that affect the formation and growth of the economic structure of football were analyzed, and the effects of these factors on football economy were analyzed. In the conclusion part of the study, projections were made for the future of the economic structure of football. It was emphasized that the football economy will grow further in the future and it is ecosystem will be affected positively from this.