Abstract During recent decades, emotion has been regarded as one of the basic, pivotal concepts in different contexts such as social relations, self-regulation, and mental health and has been the subject of numerous research studies, keeping in mind a total of 40 (20 South Delhi+ 20 North Delhi) male basketball players were selected from Delhi region. The minimum level of participation was state level, the age of the subjects ranged from 18-20 years. Emotional intelligence scale prepared by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Hyde and Upinder Dhar was selected for the collection of the data. The collected data was analyzed by computing descriptive analysis followed by independent sample‘t’ test. The results from the independent sample t-test have shown that there is a significant difference between in the emotional intelligence of the north and south Delhi male basketball players, male basketball players from South Delhi had a high level of Emotional Intelligence as compared to that from North Delhi.