INVESTIGATION OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF NON-DRUG SUPPLEMENTS (OTC) AS SPONSOR TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF AMATEUR SPORTS AMATÖR SPOR DALLARININ SORUNLARININ ÇÖZÜMÜNDE TAKVİYE EDİCİ İLAÇ OLMAYAN KATKI MADDELERİNİN (OTC) SPONSOR OLARAK KATKISININ İNCELENMESİ

Sports clubs play a major role in directing the sports infrastructure of countries and young people to a healthier future. They are the most important grassroots associations in directing the youth of a country to sports and enabling them to represent their country in sportive competitions. As in every country, clubs dealing with amateur sports in our country have to deal with many difficulties. Financial opportunities are at the top of these problems. There can be many problems, but the basis of these problems is the lack of full financial opportunities, which is the biggest obstacle of sports development. Even if all the conditions are met at the optimum level, it comes to an end with financial means at the last stage. Especially sports clubs have many financial, organizational, legal and managerial infrastructure problems. Descriptive method was used in the research by scanning the literature. It is aimed to examine whether non-pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs (OTC) will take the sponsor role in the activities of these clubs by evaluating the managers, athletes, trainers and employees of amateur sports clubs in our country. In our study, appropriate information from the literature was scanned and evaluated systematically and the subject was conceptualized under four main headings. These concepts; Amateur Sports Clubs were determined as Sponsorship, Drug Law and Advertising, Supplements (OTC) and evaluated.