Abstract.To investigate the role of target deformation on incomplete fusion dynamics, a particle-gamma coincidence experiment has been performed at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. Spin distributions for various evaporation residues populated via complete and incomplete fusion of 16 O with 124 Sn at 6.3MeV/nucleon have been measured. Experimentally measured spin distributions of the residues produced as incomplete fusion products associated with fast α and 2α-emission channels observed in forward cone are found to be distinctly different from those of the residues produced as complete fusion products. The mean value of input angular momentum J 0 for evaporation residues produced through xn channels (complete fusion products) is found to be J 0 ≈ 7ħ, while the mean value of input angular momentum J 0 for the residues produced through direct αxn and 2αxn channels (incomplete fusion products) in forward cone, are found to be J 0 ≈ 9ħ and ≈ 12 ħ respectively for 16 O + 124 Sn (spherical) system [7]. The mean value of input angular momentum J 0 for the system 16 O + 169 Tm (deformed) reported in ref. [8], are found to be ≈10ħ for xn-channels (complete fusion products) and for direct αxn and 2αxn channels (incomplete fusion products) the value of J 0 approaches to ≈ 13ħ and ≈16ħ, respectively. The mean values of the input angular momentum observed for xn (complete fusion products), αxn and 2αxn (incomplete fusion products) in 16 O + 124 Sn (spherical) system are smaller than that of the mean values of the input angular momentum observed for xn (complete fusion products), αxn and 2αxn (incomplete fusion products) in 16 O + 169 Tm (deformed) system. The comparison of data inferred that the mean values of the input angular momentum are smaller in case of spherical target than that of deformed target at same projectile energy of 16 O-ion beam. It means that the target deformation affect the incomplete fusion dynamics.