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Background: Numerous sports psychologists reveal through their literatures and experiments that the level of anxiety changes dramatically during competition as its cognitive and somatic components alters with time and situation. Anxiety affects the overall performance through physiological and behavioural effects and personality changes. When players could not cope with anxiety, personality shall be changed and negatively effect on performance. Aim: That's why the researchers took an attempt to evaluate the impact of personality on pre-competitive anxiety (PCA) of soccer players. Method: Total Eighty (N=80) district level soccer players were selected randomly as subjects from Nadia, Kolkata and Uttar Dinajpur Districts of West Bengal for the current investigation. Their age were ranged from 18 to 21 years. Four dimensions of Personality i.e., Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie and Pre-Competitive Anxiety were considered as independent and dependent variables respectively for the present experiment. Personality was measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Short Scale) and Pre-Competitive Anxiety was measured by the Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT). Results: In order to analysis the collected data, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation of Co-efficient was applied to find out the association between personality and pre-competitive anxiety of soccer players. On the basis of the findings, the researchers noted that PCA was significantly associated with Extraversion and Neuroticism. Along with that, it was also observed that PCA was insignificantly associated with Psychoticism and Lie of soccer players.