Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find out the distribution of sports injuries of football players in Turkish professionel football league during a season and to find out the occurance reasons of these injuries. A total of 109 professional football players in Turkish professional football league were voluntarily participated in to this study.
A questionnaire has 16 questions was given to subjects participated in to this study. Obtained data was analysed by using freguency distribution and percentage. As results of this study, while among the football injuires during a season, the distorsions were seen the most freguently type of injury (25.8 %) others were muscle ruptures (19.5 %), fractures (17.5%), head traumas (12.2 %) dislocations (11.7% ), tendon ruptures (9.2 %), meniscus lesions ( 3.9 % ), respectively.
It was assessed that occured injuries the most freguently was seen in lower extremities. Among occurence reasons of injuries, strokes of oppenents was in the first (32.7%) Lower condition level was in the last with 3.4 %.