Introduction: Adopting leadership style by coach plays an important role to achieve the success and performance of a sport team. In sport, one of the aspects that coaches need to be aware as a team manager and leader is athletes satisfaction. Athlete consent is a positive situation driven from sophisticated assessment of structures, processes and individual and team results and experienced by athletes.
Methodology: The research method was descriptive-correlation. The study population included 402 high school athlete students of west of Tehran. In order to collect data, two questionnaires were used, leadership style, Yousefi (1386), and athlete satisfaction questionnaire (1387). To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and simple regression were used.
Results: The results of the correlation coefficient indicated that there is a significant relationship between leadership style and athletes satisfaction. The results also showed regression coefficient of 0.245 correlation adjusted to 0.0585 coefficient between the two variables. Standard coefficient regression results showed a significant leadership style component of 0.254 against athletes satisfaction equaled to 2.865.
Discussion: The results of this study was consonants with previous results Mohaddes et al. (1389), J. Baker et al. (2009). According to various theories, one of the aspects of satisfaction is dependent on the behavior of the coach or head coach. In sport, the players behavior has an impact on athletes satisfaction, hence the relationship between leadership style and satisfaction have particular importance in female athletes.