The objective of this research was to investigate the correlation between coach leadership style, coach-athlete relationships, motivation, and satisfaction among athletes from the Southern Zone Malaysia Teacher Education Institute participating in the Sports Council Championship (MSIPGM). The participants in this research consist of a cohort of 190 athletes who were administered a Google Form questionnaire through either the WhatsApp or Telegram messaging applications. The survey included many established measurement tools, including the Leadership Sports Scale (LSS; Chelladurai & Salleh, 1980), CART-Q (Jowett & Ntoumanis, 2004), the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-II; Pelletier et al., 2013), and the Satisfaction Scale For Athletes (SSA) (Caliskan & Baydar, 2016). The results of the internal consistency test revealed a range of alpha coefficients between 0.78 and 0.90. Additionally, the p-values obtained from the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Normality test were found to be greater than 0.05, specifically ranging from 0.126 to 0.260. The use of the Pearson correlation was employed to assess and interpret the results, given that the data has a normal distribution. The study's results indicated that Pearson's Correlation analysis revealed a statistically significant inverse association between autocratic leadership style and coach-athlete relationships, athlete motivation, and athlete satisfaction (p<0.05). In the present study, it was shown that a significant correlation exists between the democratic leadership style and several aspects of the coach-athlete interaction, athlete motivation, and athlete satisfaction (p<0.05). Several recommendations have been deliberated upon with regards to improving the performance of athletes in the context of coach leadership style at the Malaysia Teacher Education Institute.
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