A new design scheme of directly adaptive fuzzy control for a class of discrete-time chaotic systems is proposed in this paper. The T-S fuzzy model is employed to represent the discrete-time chaotic systems. Then a fuzzy controller is designed and the unknown coefficients of the controller are identified by least squares algorithm with dead-zone. By Lyapunov method, all the signals involved in the closed-loop systems are shown to be bounded and the error between the system output and the reference output is proved to converge to a small neighborhood of zero. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.