The aim of the research is to study the reality of strategic planning and the performance of leaders working in public sports federations in Libya, taking into account the extent of the need for public federations to create a state of leadership as an intermediary variable and its role in achieving excellence in the performance of effective leaders to achieve achievement in the sports field, and the descriptive approach was used The analytical method through the application of the intentional sampling method from the general federations in Libya and its headquarters in the city of Tripoli. Active leaders were targeted for the study (the president of the federation, the secretary general, the treasurer) and a questionnaire was applied with a response rate of (90.8%), and one of the most important results presented by the research is the presence of an impact Statistically significant at the significance level (α≤0.05) of the strategic vision at the level of performance of the leaders of the general sports federations, and the presence of a statistically significant effect at the level of significance (α = 0.05) for the strategic message on the level of performance at the level of leaders of the general sports federations, and the presence of a statistically significant effect At the level of significance (α = 0.05) for the strategic goals at the level of leadership performance of the general sports federations, as it was found that there is a moderate direct correlation between Strategic planning and performance quality from the point of view of leaders in general sports federations, where the correlation coefficient between the two variables was (R = 0.61).