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This study examined the effect of Taekwondo sparring players’ emotional intelligence on perceived performance and stress coping. In addition, it aims to investigate the mediating effect of the stress coping on the relationship between the emotional intelligence and the perceived performance. To this end, it administered questionnaires to a total of 472 Taekwondo players. The findings are as follows: First, there were positive correlations among all sub-variables of Taekwond athletes’ emotional intelligence, perceived performance and stress coping. Second, the self-emotion regulation and the interpersonal skill, among Taekwond athletes’ emotional intelligence had positive effects on the cognitive skill. The self-emotion recognition and the other-emotion recognition had positive effects on problems-focused coping. The self-emotion recognition, the self-emotion regulation and the interpersonal sill had positive effects on the emotion-focused coping. Fourth, Taekwondo athletes’ emotional intelligence did not only have a direct effect on the perceived performance, but also had an indirect effect on it via the stress coping.