PURPOSE: Analyze the relationship between sports psychological performance and leadership in the Bogotá Rugby League women's team METHODS: a quantitative, non-experimental, transectional study with a descriptive and correlational scope was carried out based on an analytical empirical paradigm. 15 athletes of the Women`s Rugby league participated. After agreeing to participate in the study, the Athletes were evaluated through the Loehr Psychological Performance Inventory (PPI) and Arce´s Informal Leadership Scale (ILS) to evaluate de association between variables. RESULTS: The findings show a directly proportional relationship between the variables under study (r = 0.698), which suggests that the higher the level of psychological performance, the higher the level of informal leadership of the participants. These results show a statistically significant relationship between the variables (bilateral significance of 0.01). Additionally, an association was found between the subscales Imaginative visual control and sports values ​​(r = 0.817 **), motivational level and sports values ​​(r = 0.741 **). CONCLUSIONS: Rugby is a sport that requires individual and collective skills related to leadership during competition. Skills such as sports values, imaginative control, empathy, coping, and attitudinal control are some of the most relevant for its improvement. The findings of this study suggest that individual variables related to the psychological profile of competition have influenced the performance of informal leadership of women belonging to the Bogota Rugby league in this sport, making them a representative team of this sport in the country.