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The purpose of this study was to examine the values of school-based sports organized by sport clubs. School-based sports has its own value orientation since it falls between physical education in school and junior sport in sport clubs. According to LIITU research (2019), 23 percent of pupils par-ticipate in school sport clubs. In addition, 62 percent of pupil do sports in sport clubs. Instructors in school sport clubs and sport clubs reach a significant portion of the child population and thus the are an important group of educators. The theoretical background of this research is Shalom Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Values (1992) which describes values as desirable transsituational goals, that serve as guiding principles in the life of a person or other social entity. The setting of this study is based on Ilmanen, Jaakkola and Matilainen’s (2010) study of values of Finnish physical education. The data consists of responses from 130 sports club instructors, who responded to an online survey in Spring 2017. Participants were asked to evaluate how much the agree with statements concerning values of school-based sports. The data was analysed with Principal Component Analysis. The re-sult was twelve components of which two were discarded because of low reliability. The remaining ten components were computed into sum of variables which describe values of school-based sports. The association between values and age of respondents was measured using Spearman’s correlation coefficient, the association between values and gender was measured using Mann-Whitney U test, and the association between values and background of educational sector or sport sector was meas-ured using Kruskal-Wallis test. The most important values of instructors in school-based sports were hedonism, physically active way of life and sport skills and self-direction and pro-sociality. The empirical values reflected Schwartz’ motivational value types and value survey of physical education in school. There were no statistical association between values and education or work experience in the educational sector or in the sport sector. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between age and physi-cally active way of life and sport skills and tradition and nature. There was also a statistical signifi-cance between values and gender: conformity was especially important amongst men. According to this research, instructors of school-based sports have similar values to physical education of Finnish comprehensive education, which emphasizes positive experiences, physically active way of life and cooperation.