Abstarct: Abstract The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of identity leadership on team work and burnout of athletes with the mediating role of psychological security. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descxriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population included all male plaxyers of Khorasan Razavi futsal teams. Using Morgan's table, 384 people were selected as a sample. The measuring tools of the research were standard questionnaires of identity leadership by Stephen et al.'s (2014), Edmondson's psychological safety (1999), Radek's burnout (2001), and McEwan et al.'s (2018) team work. Questionnaires were distributed as an online lixnk. The reliability of the questionnaires was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient higher than 0.7. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed using the opinion of sports management experts, data were analyzed using SPSS and PLS software. The research findings showed; Identity leadership had a positive and significant effect on psychological safety; Identity leadership had a positive and significant effect on teamwork; Identity leadership had a negative and significant effect on burnout; Psychological safety had a positive and significant effect on teamwork; Psychological safety did not affect burnout; Also, identity leadership did not affect teamwork through the mediating variable of psychological safety; Identity leadership did not affect burnout through the mediating variable of psychological safety. Therefore, it is suggested that coaches and athletes, especially in the field of futsal, should take positive measures in their programs by using the identity leadership style to provide psychological security, as well as reduce the burnout of athletes and increase the level of teamwork. This ultimately helps to increase team work performance by increasing psychological security and sports teams achieve a high position in terms of game quality, mental and physical preparation of plaxyers.