The purpose of this study was to determine the preferences of athletes to their coaches’ coaching leadership style, to find out the athletes’ satisfaction, and to investigate the differences in athletes’ satisfaction among the different demographic factors, and lastly, to examine the relationship of coaching leadership style between coaching style and athlete satisfaction. The Revised Leadership Scale for Sports developed by Zhang, Jensen and Mann (1997) and the Athlete Satisfaction Questionnaire (Chelladurai & Riemer 1997) were used. The result of this study showed that there is a significant relationship of coaching leadership style and athlete satisfaction. Specifically, the democratic behavior and situational consideration coaching leadership styles are significant predictors to athletes’ satisfaction. The results of this study regarding athletes' satisfaction and demographic factors show that there is a significance difference on athletes’ satisfaction in terms of age. The findings of this study suggest that the coaches should provide democratic behavior and situational consideration and allow athletes to participate in the formulation of team goals, practice methods, and game strategies in order to increase the levels of satisfaction and decrease quitting among athletes. The results of this study can serve as a benchmark for sports coaching, sport psychology, sport management and others sports related study.
