This study aims to determine the self-handicapping levels of sports management department students. Furthermore, the study endeavors analyzing the sports management students' self-handicapping level by gender, grade, grade point average, and exercise status. The study group analyzed with the survey method comprise 158 students enrolled in the Faculty of Sports Science for Sport Management Department at Erciyes University, Kayseri/Turkey during the 2018-2019 academic year. The study utilizes "Self-Handicapping Scale" developed by Jones and Rhodewalt (1982) and adapted to Turkish by Akin, Abaci and Akin (2010) as the data collection tool. The SPSS program was used for data analysis. The results indicate that the sports management students' self-handicapping level in the study group was "moderate". Moreover, the self-handicapping levels of the sports management students in the study group did not differ significantly by gender, grade, age and exercise status (p > 0.05). However, it was discovered that self-handicapping levels significantly differ by grade point average (p < 0.05).