The present study was conducted to examine the sports achievement motivation among qualifying and non-qualifying team of central zone inter university volleyball championship. Total ninety six (N=96) male subjects, forty eight (N=48) qualifying team and forty eight (N=40) non-qualifying teams who had participated at central zone inter-university competitions from various university of India, held at LNIPE, Gwalior were selected for this study. Achievement motivation was measured by applying Sports Achievement Motivation test prepared by M.L. Kamlesh (1990). The age of the subjects was ranged between 19 to 27 years. To find out the difference between qualifying and non-qualifying team of central zone inter university volleyball championship t test was employed at the 0.05 level of significance. t ratio was found significant at 0.05 level with 94 degree of freedom. So that it was concluded that there was a significant difference between sports achievement motivation of qualifying and non-qualifying teams of central zone inter university volleyball competition.