Bednarik, Jakob; Petrovi?, Kre?imir; ?ugman, Rajko - Funding of Slovenian sport during transition

摘要

Slovenia started its economic transition as the most developed, decentralised and market-oriented former socialist economy. Its model of organising and funding sports was also very different to typical centralised socialist systems. During the transition process, major changes have been needed due to the further commercialisation of sport, whilst the basic structure has remained the same. The aim of this paper is to analyse the financing of sport organisation in this transition period in Slovenia. Detailed analysis of the financial reports of almost 2000 sports organisations in Slovenia in 1977 reveals important differences in the structure of expenditure among different sports. These findings reflect different levels of professionalism among various sports. Slovenian sports organisations mainly finance themselves through their own activities. There are different levels of commercialisation among various sports. The final structure of the private financial sources will be known as soon as all private funding sources of Slovenian sport will be analysed.