THE CULTURAL IMPACT ON FOOTBALL FANS: COMPARISON OF SCOTLAND AND TURKEY

Abstract

Culture, reflects the common values of a group of people and effects their life style, manners, beliefs. Also we can say that football is one of the  most popular sports in the world are at national and international level. Due to this popularity, football matches stands out as not only being a sporting event but also encounter of different cultures, beliefs, communities and values. Fans come together to form groups of supporters whose known for their intense loyalty for their team. This group of supporters can operate various activities, organize diverse movements or protests, can be part of multiple events and they can even compose their own cultural structure. Determining the factors that fans are affected when performing their behaviors will help to understand the acts of the fans.In this study, the affect of the cultural structure, which has a great influence on human behavior, on the behaviors of football fans is being investigated. Behavior analysis was carried out by comparing the behavior patterns of football fans with different cultural structures in similar situations. Football is one of the  most popular sports in the world and therefore football matches stands out as not only being a sporting event but also encounter of different cultures. In this study we compared the behavior of supporters from Scotland and Turkey.