An Empirical Research on the Correlation between Spectatorship Status of Football Fans and Sport Team Evangelism (eFANgelism)

The aim of this research is to reveal the correlation between sports team eFANgelism and the spectator, fan and fanatic attitudes of football Spectators. Besiktas, Galatasaray Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor fans, this goal was tested on a total of 362 football spectators gathered from four separate main masses: Galatasaray and Trabzonspor. The "football fan fanaticism scale “was used to determine the level of Football Spectators (spectators, fans, fanatics) and the” sports team evangelism scale “was used to determine fan behavior mobilized by the heated dissemination of Football Spectators' beliefs about the team and team-centered interactions. In the analysis of the data, a normality test was performed and it was determined that the data was distributed normally and parametric tests were used. According to the fan fanaticism scale, 34.8% (126) were fanaticism, 35.4% (128) were fans and 29.8% were spectators (sports fans); sports team eFANgelism of football spectators was found to be significantly higher than spectators and fans. In addition, a positive correlation was found between sports team eFANngelism and the lower dimensions of football fan fanaticism (tendency to think/act towards violence and institutional belonging). Based on this, it can be said that eFANgelists, who are fanatics and fans, promote the teams they are supporters of without any expectations, ensuring the spread of team-centered interactions.