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The present study aims to categorize national male and female volleyball players of Chhattisgarh based on their level of self-confidence. It was decided to select 50 interuniversity male and 50 interuniversity female volleyball players. The chosen volleyball players have the domicile certificate of the state of Chhattisgarh. The average age of selected male volleyball players was 24.11 years and that of female volleyball players was 22.19 years. PSCI constructed by Pandey (1983) was used to collect data on self-confidence. Subjects scoring less than 23 marks on the inventory were placed in the low self-confidence group, subjects scoring between 24-37 marks were placed in the average self-confidence group and subjects scoring above 37 were placed in the high self-confidence group. Chi-square statistics was used for statistical analysis of data. It was found that the majority i.e. almost 50% of the national male and female volleyball players with domicile in Chhattisgarh exhibited a high level of self-confidence. Based on the results it may be concluded that around 50% of selected national volleyball players of Chhattisgarh possess a high level of self-confidence and for that reason, some psychological techniques such as self-talk, goal setting etc. need to be incorporated into the training plan so that the maximum number of national volleyball players can have optimum self-confidence and in this way it will boost the chances of volleyball players of Chhattisgarh to perform at elite level.