Many shows believe that recovery exercises can have enhancing performance by positively affecting to cardiorespiratory, flexibility, muscular fitness and body composition improvement. The main purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of recovery exercise on selected physical fitness variables. The study design was Quasi-Experimental method. 24 male project players aged 18-20 years had divided randomly into 2 equal groups, experimental (n=12) training group who performed in 3 days/week for 3-month recovery exercise training program such as active recovery, stretching, low intensity exercise, small side game and massage and a control (n=12) group however, did not perform this selected recovery training after normal physical exercise terming program. Both groups had taken pre and post-testing and all the subjects participated in 4 physical fitness tests: cardiorespiratory fitness was measured using 12 minute run test, muscular endurance was measured by 900push up test, flexibility was measured using sit and reach test and Body Composition was measured using BMI. The test Raw data were analyzed statistically by using paired sample T- test SPSS, version 20 and significance difference was used at P<0.05 level of confidence. After analyzed the raw data, the mean difference and P-value (P<0.05) of experimental group showed statistical significant improvements on each variable whereas the mean difference and p-value (P>0.05) of control group didn’t show significant difference on each variables. Based on this finding it can be conclude that recovery exercise training has significant effect on selected football related physical fitness in Worku Jenber male students’ football project. Key words:, recovery, physical fitness ,effect