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This study is to examine the relationship between sports club activity and adaptation to teaching profession for elementary school teachers who had taken part in sports club activities when they were undergraduates of Education University and who have less than three years of teaching career. To this end, I examined and analyzed various recognitions on adaptation to teaching profession such as teaching subjects, academic affairs allotment, classroom management and human relations by gender, working regions (Gangwon province, Gyeonggi province), sports event of club, sports club participation period. The result from the analysis of the recognitions on adaptation to teaching profession for the teachers who had taken part in sports club activities through this study is as follows. First, as for the adaptation to teaching profession by gender, male teachers have more difficulties than female teachers in the area of academic affairs allotment and human relations. And female teachers have more difficulties than male teachers in the area of classroom management. Second, as for the adaptation to teaching profession by event, the teachers who participated in individual events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of the attempts of new teaching methods in the area of teaching subjects. And the teachers who participated in team events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of embarrassment by children’s questions. The teachers who participated in team events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of work plans and performance in the area of academic affairs allotment. The teachers who participated in individual events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of setting up goals, classroom operation, personality guidance and pleasant classroom atmosphere in the area of classroom management. The teachers who participated in individual events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of conversation with parents in the area of human relations. The teachers who participated in team events answered difficulties for the questionnaires of participation in school management. Third, as for the adaptation to teaching profession by sports club participation period, the teachers who participated in club activity during the whole four years as University students are most positive for the recognitions on the attempts of new teaching methods in the area of teaching subjects. The more they have difficulties in the attempts of new teaching methods, the shorter the sports club participation period is in decreasing order of less than 2-3 years and 1-2 years.