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The purpose of the present study was to analyse the effect of selected weight training exercises on the growth of leg strength of football players. The study was conducted on 40 male football interuniversity players, age ranged from 20 to 26 years who were randomly selected from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur(C.G.) were taken as the subjects. The selected group of subjects was divided into two groups viz. experimental and control. The weight training schedule which was administered on experimental group only, different weight training exercises were given (i.e., close grip bench press , squat, dumbell lunges, standing leg curls, dumbell dead lift, and leg press). This weight training programme were carried out for a period of 6 weeks for one hour every evening for 5 days in a week. Control groups were no treatment group and were engaged in their own daily activity programme. As delimited to measure the leg strength of the subjects standing broad jump (SBJ) tests was used. For the administration and scoring of these tests item procedure mentioned in AAPHER, youth fitness test (1958) was taken as the model. It was analyse from the results of the study that there was significant effect of the weight training exercise on the leg strength of the selected football players.