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Football is a sport that brings together various factors; namely speed, agility, endurance, balance, and skill. The capacity of the football players to produce varied high-speed actions is known to impact match performance. Maximal sprint speed is the maximal velocity at which a player can sprint. In the training sessions with more emphasis laid on the warm-up and its relation to injury prevention, it is pivotal to know if the warm-up routine has a bearing on these two high-speed characteristics. In the entire warm-up routine, stretching takes up a major chunk. Stretching in itself has 2 different types; static stretching and dynamic stretching. In this study, we are evaluating the effect of static stretching and dynamic stretching individually on sprint speed and agility. Method: This is a quasi-experimental study in which 30 soccer players were selected as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The pre and post effect of static and dynamic stretching was evaluated on 2 separate days respectively on the sprint performance. Result: 30 male soccer players with a mean age of 21 were included in the study. Data was collected and analyzed using the SPSS 12 software with the level of significance set at 0.05 Data was analyzed using the paired t-test. There was a statistically significant improvement in the sprint performance post dynamic stretching, with a p-value of 0.001. The mean value of the time(seconds) taken to sprint post static stretching was 3.542 and post dynamic stretching was 3.465. Conclusion: Dynamic stretching is more effective in increasing sprint performance as compared to static stretching.