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To evaluate the allelopathic effects of chickpea stubble on germination and early growth of sorghum, soybean and sunflower, an experiment was conducted in Pulses Research Station greenhouse of College of Agriculture, University of Tehran in 2000. The experiment consisted of five chickpea accessions as main plots, four stubble concentrations (2.5 g/pot, 5 g/pot, 7.5 g/pot and control) and three crops (sorghum, soybean and sunflower) which were factorially assigned to the main plots. The experiment was arranged as a split plot factorial in a compeletly randomized block design with three replications. Germination percent, root dry weight and shoot/root ratio were significantly affected by stubble concentration of chickpea. Except for plant height, there was a significant interaction between chickpea x stubble concentration and chickpea x crops on percent germination, shoot dry weight, root dry weight and shoot/root ratio. The interaction of stubble concentration x crops was only significant on shoot dry weight as well as the shoot/root ratio. Plant height was only affected by crops.