ABSTRACT The Purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between stress and emotional intelligence of individual sports and team games players. A sample of 140 students was taken from schools of Chandigarh. To assess the stress level of the students, Student stress scale (SSS-AZ) by Dr.Zaki Akhtar (2011) and their emotional intelligence was assessed by Emotional Intelligence Inventory (EII- MM) developed by Dr. S.K. Mangal and Dr. Shubra Mangal (2012).The Age of the subjects was ranged between 14 to 16 years. The Mean, Standard deviation, Median, t-test and Correlation were employed to test the hypotheses and it was found that also team games players had moderately higher emotional than individual sport. Further there was found negative correlation between stress and Emotional intelligence which implies that if one of the variables increases, the other one decrease i.e. the higher the emotional intelligence, the lower is the stress. Thus Emotional intelligence leads to reduction in stress.