The aim of this study is to raise the awareness of public employees in sports administration through various types of training, and to measure the awareness of public employees working in sports administration with regard to sports, as well as to reveal the problems facing sports in Turkey from the perspective of those working in sports administration. The research was carried out with a mixed method within the scope of the ‘phenomenology’ design, a quantitative and qualitative research design in the survey model. The study population consists of employees working in the central and provincial organizations of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the sample consists of 581 people working under different titles determined by the convenience sampling method. Personal characteristics, an information form with three open-ended questions and the Sport Awareness Scale (SAS) were used in the collection of the data. Regarding the psychometric properties, the Cronbach α value for the whole scale was 0.937, and the Cronbach α coefficients calculated for each sub-dimension were 0.947 and 0.851, respectively. EFA and CFA analyses also reveal that the scale had sufficient validity values. The continuous variables in the quantitative section were examined using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in terms of normality, and it was seen that the data obtained met this assumption (p>0.05). For this reason, the analyses were carried out with t-tests and an ANOVA test, which are parametric difference tests. The data obtained through interview questions were analyzed by content analysis. SPSS 24 and NVIVO 10 package programs were used for the analysis. The findings show that the awareness of those working in sports management is higher among men than women, that for those who have just started their professional life it is higher than for others, and that those who have been working in sports management for a long time increase their awareness over time. The most important problems of Turkish sports are stated as lack of infrastructure, lack of merit, lack of sustainable sports policy, discontinuity of studies, insufficient sports awareness education and insufficient awareness of directing children to sports at an early age.