A coupling with a rotating ball type valve which comprises a fixed axial shaft placed at the inner end of the body of a coupling connector, directed toward the outlet of the connector and bored to the diameter of the passage of the coupling, the shaft being formed at its end adjacent the inner end of the body with a support surface for a return spring and, at its other end, with a radial flange the two side faces of which are tangent to the outer surface of the shaft, a chamber opening into the spherical shaped sector opposite the passage-closing sector being provided in a spherical closure element, said chamber comprising surfaces cooperating in a sliding contact with the side faces of the flange of the shaft and the axis for driving in rotation the closure element being carried by the flange of the shaft and perpendicular to the flange faces.