The Relationship Between Sports Sponsorship, Brand Image and Brand Value: A Quantitative Research
Abstract
In this research, the sponsorship relation between Turkish National Football Team and its 2018 new form, shoes and equipment world-famous sponsor brand is examined via Keller (1993, 2003)’s approach of consumer-centered brand valuation. With a quantitative research method, the data is gathered before and after the team’s 2018 UEFA National League and 2020 European Championship prelims from a sample of 378 participants and according to the findings, the former and the latter participants’ attitudes towards National Team’s image, sponsor brand’s image and value remain same. Accordingly, both National Team and sponsor brand preserve their positive images. However, within the correlation between sponsor brand’s image and brand value it is found that there is a moderate, significant and positive relationship between two variables and the strength of this relationship decreased after the prelims. As a result, it can be proposed that the positive or negative attitudes towards sponsor brand’s image affect brand value and brand value increases while brand image increases.
Keywords
Sponsorship,Sports sponsorship,Brand image,Brand value,Football
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