The main purpose of this study was to compare temporal patterns of pre-competition mood states between individual and team sport among UiTM university students. The participants comprised of male and female athletes age ranged 18 to 26years old (N=214). Mood states were measured by the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire that includes six sub-scales, anger, confusion, depression, fatigue, tension and vigor. The questionnaire was distributed to the participants within three time frames (one week, one day and an hour) prior to competition. In order to analyze data, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation), and repeated measure ANOVA were utilized. The alpha (α)level was set at 0.05. The result indicated that the team sport participants perceived slightly higher level of POMS (mean=2.156) in compared with the individual participants (mean=2.145). However, in subscales of POMS, there is a significant difference in depression, confusion, tension and vigor at different time-toevent. The results show that there is not any significance in individual and team sports in one week before competition. However, in one day the only sub-scales with no significance is just tension. In comparing with results in a day before, temporal patterns results indicate that a significant difference were noted in tension and vigor at one day before the competition.
