Today organizations are increasingly addressing their target audience through sports. They are aware that sport brings people together, it is connected with success and positive stories and it simultaneously offers a great reach. In Slovenia sport sponsorship is very often linked to social responsibility and in some cases it is not a matter of sponsoring in the true sense, but it is leaning more towards donations. Based on the theory and interviews conducted with visible players in the field of sport sponsorship in Slovenia, we found that there are movements in Slovenia in this field, but sport sponsorships still do not bring the desired performance or efficiency. Interviews were deliberately done with both well-recognizable and less-recognizable participants in sponsorship relations. I made a comparison between two athletes, two sports clubs and two companies. I compared Vid Peršak, who is at the beginning of the professional sports career and Filip Flisar, one of the most recognizable athletes in Slovenia. Among the sports clubs, I compared the Handball Club Celje Pivovarna Lasko, which is very recognizable not only in Slovenia, but also in Europe and the Basketball Club Rogaška, which is very successful in Slovenia, but it does not yet have such recognition as the first club. In the end, I also explored the differences in the understanding of sponsoring sports between two very large Slovenian companies, namely Telekom and Nova KBM.
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