The purpose of this paper was to systematically review the contemporary literature on coach development programs (CDPs). Three questions guided this review: (a) What types of CDPs have been studied (b) What research methods have been used to study CDPs (c) What types of program evaluation assessment questions have researchers used to investigate CDPs Using electronic databases, articles ( = 56) were identified. The inclusion criteria required articles to be printed in English, peer-reviewed, databased, published between 2015 and 2019, and examine one CDP. The findings indicate that majority of CDPs studied during this time period were delivered in-person to a collective group of coaches by a national governing body. Furthermore, CDPs were most commonly delivered to coaches in less than a day and tend to target coaches working in multiple sports and various contexts (children/adolescents, participation/performance). Sixty-three percent of the articles in this review used a qualitative approach, twenty-one percent used a mixed-method approach, and sixteen percent used a quantitative approach. Semi-structured interviews of coaches were the most popular data collection technique. Process assessment evaluation questions were asked the most by researchers, followed by outcome and program design questions.
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