The Investigation of Organization Structure of the 2013 U-20 World’s Cup in Turkey

This research was conducted so as to determine how FIFA U-20 World Cup 2013 Turkey organization was held; who had what responsibilities; and what kind of difficulties were experienced during the organization. In this research, the data was collected according to qualitative research techniques. The general data of the research was obtained from the articles and books about this subject and up-to-date web sites; the application of the research was prepared after having a detailed and face-to-face interview with organization tournament director in Turkey. At the end of the research, the organization was evaluated in general and it was concluded that FIFA succeeded in reaching the standard level in this tournament. Because the stadiums were nice and the floors of them were good; there was a favourable media interest; everybody did their jobs really well. In addition, this organisation contributed to the advertising of Turkey. It also helped many cities to have a lot of new plants. The organisation promoted the country’s economic development, as well. However, the biggest failure of the organization was that this tournament was the one where there were the fewest spectators with tickets with an average of 5.230 per match among all World Cups under 20 year-olds.