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The aim of the current study is to investigate the charismatic leadership perceptions about themselves coaches who work in the leagues of urkish Basketball Federation. he population of the study consists of 205 basketball coaches participating in “Coach Development Seminars” organized by urkish Basketball Federation in Eskişehir. Measuring tool has been applied to all coaches who attended the seminar. he sampling of the study consist of 189 basketball coaches who agree attend the study and filled form correctly. In order to obtain data regarding the charismatic leadership perception of the basketball choaches about themselves, the “Charismatic Leadership Scale” developed by Çelik (2011) and was administered. his scale consists of 10 dimensions (Personalized Interest, rust,Antipathetic Perception, Impressiveness, Personality, Motivating, Effective Speaking Skills, Unusual Appearance, aking Risk andCoping with Values) and 35 items. Cronbach Alpha of charismatic leadership scale was calculated ,995 and goodness of fit indices were RMSEA (0.068), NNFI (0.90), NFI (0.84), CFI (0.92), RMR (0.05), GFI (0.76), AGFI (0.71).For the purposes of data analysis, reliability tests (Cronbach Alpha), t-test, one-way variance analysis and factor analysis were applied. he comparison made according to the variables “gender” and “education level” showed statistically meaningful differences in some subscaleswhich Unusual Appearance, rust and Personalized Interest, Impressiveness, aking Risk and Motivating (p <0.05). One-way ANOVA test results revealed meaningful differences among the groups in some subscales for the variables “age”, “league level”, “the duration of working with the same coach” and “theduration of doing the same sports branch (p<0.05). According to research result, the similar findings have determined between perception of coaches about charismatic leadership themselves and the perception of players about charismatic leadership of their coahces. Key Words: CharismaticLeadership, Basketball, Coach.