The main purpose of this research was to examine coaching leadership styles and team cohesion in Ethiopian public universities male football teams. The statistical population consisted of 33 male football teams (N= 726) those who have participated in the 7th all Ethiopian public universities sport festival at Haramya University. So, the numbers of universities and respondents were determined via sample determination formula. Two stage random sampling techniques were used to selected 10 university teams and per university 14 respondents (n= 140), respectively. In this research, the adopted version of the leadership scale for sport (LSS) and the Group environment questionnaire (GEQ), were employed. Descriptive statistics (Mean and standard deviation), and Pearson product moment correlation were undertaken to analyze the data at the 5% level of significance. The result of the study indicates that the most persistent coaching leadership style in Ethiopian public universities male football team was training and instruction. Moreover, there was a positive and significant relationship between coaching leadership styles: training and instruction, democratic behavior and positive feedback to task and social cohesions. Therefore, it seems that employing training and instruction, democratic behavior and positive feedback coaching leadership styles would have a positive effect on team cohesion and would improve the team successes.
Coaching, cohesion, leadership styles
