Relationship of achievement motivation and will to win with the performance of football players

The essay aims to investigate the connection between football players' performance and achievement motivation and will to win. To assure the performance of football players, the study focuses on components of achievement motivation and will to win. Thirty female college football players, ages 18 to 25, were chosen through successive sampling from the Football Inter collegiate competition. The factors under consideration were performance, will to win, and accomplishment motivation. Correlations were used as a statistical technique for the present study. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation with the help of IBM SPSS (22.00) software. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05.The results of the study show that Achievement motivation was significantly correlated to Football performance (r=0.44). Whereas no significant relationship was obtained between will to win to the performance of Football (r=0.29). Hence the study concluded that successful performance in Football requires the ability to generate Achievement motivation.