The level of leadership behavior among football professional clubs from the perspective of players in Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the level of leadership behavior among football professional clubs from the perspective of players, using the descriptive survey method to achieve the objective of the study. The study sample consisted of 173 players who were members of professional football clubs. The researcher developed a questionnaire which included five items: training behavior, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, assistant social behavior and reward behavior. The results showed that there was a moderate level of training behavior of coaches toward football professional clubs from the point of view of players; the leading behavior of the trainers was “training behavior”. There was “assistant social behavior” with a high degree of both, and there were differences in the behavior of coaches toward football league professional clubs from the perspective of players as a whole due to age differences in favor of those under 18. The researcher recommended promoting the use of democratic behavior of football coaches who interact with players during training and competitions.