Abstract:
The study mainly focused on the coaching leadership style and player’s satisfaction in Premier
League clubs players of South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia in 2018/2019
GC. In this study major problems were addressed which were related to the challenges of
leadership style and the factors affecting the satisfaction of the players. Data on coaching
leadership style and players satisfaction were collected through self-developed questionnaires
from a sample of 116 (100 players, 12 coaches and 4 team managers) were selected by using
purposive sampling technique from SNNPR football Premier League clubs. Descriptive statistics,
chi-square test of association and linear regression model were used to analyze and extract
important information from the collected data. The Chi-squared test of association showed that
the leadership style challenges associated with the factors such as age of players, academic
status of the players, planned and scientific training in clubs, training motivates to high
performance, whether coaches help players in their personal problem and availability of
balanced diet in the clubs, the attractiveness of the salary for the players and players future plan
to leave their clubs, clubs administration and rules and regulation of the clubs were not
significant at 0.05 level of significance. Satisfaction of the players were also identified by using
chi-square test of association and factors such as age of players, academic status of the players,
planned and scientific training, training motivates to high performance, suitable training field
for the players, whether the players respect each other, equal treatment of the players in the
clubs, ethics and discipline in the clubs, team cohesion among players, players commitment to
achieve clubs goal were significant. The logistic regression analysis result in both leadership
style and players satisfaction showed that the age, security in the club, player commitment to
achieve the goal of the club were significant for players satisfaction and age of the players, team
cohesion, balanced diet, and planned and scientific training method were significant for
leadership style challenges. So the government and stakeholders must be work hard to improve
and success in the Ethiopian premier league especially in team cohesion, players’ commitment
and planned and scientific training methods.
