This study is to investigate the influence of the football leader's servant leadership, trust, and player satisfaction, and set the servant leadership that the soccer leader has done through the players as an independent variable and the trust and player satisfaction as a dependent variable.
The high school soccer team players who were registered as players in the Korea Football Association among the high school soccer team players in Jeollabuk-do in 2019 were selected as a population group of this study, and the survey was conducted on 200 middle school soccer team players using a convenience sampling method, which is a sampling method used in convenient places when the surveyor is convenient.
After the data of the questionnaire was collected, the data that were judged to be insincere or unreliable were excluded from the analysis target and the data that could be analyzed were analyzed using the Windows SPSS PC + V 25.0 program.
Through these research procedures, the following results were drawn. The results of this study are as follows.
First, in the difference of servant leadership according to demographic characteristics, servant leadership, trust, and player satisfaction showed significant differences according to grade, and sincerity and ability which are the sub-factors of trust showed a statistically significant difference. In the satisfaction of athletes, interaction factors, which are sub-factors, showed statistically significant differences, and in the difference according to the time spent with the leader, there was a statistically significant difference in the ability, which is a sub-factor of trust. There was no statistically significant difference in servant leadership according to exercise experience.
Second, as a result of multiple regression analysis, sincerity, and ability which is the sub-factors of trust had a statistically significant effect on the effect of servant leadership on trust.
Third, as a result of multiple regression analysis on the effect of servant leadership on player satisfaction, social interaction and leadership type satisfaction factors, which are sub-factors of player satisfaction, had a statistically significant effect.