diff --git a/docs/submitting-applications.md b/docs/submitting-applications.md
index 7a0f17f5ad13f..831b4f8523828 100644
--- a/docs/submitting-applications.md
+++ b/docs/submitting-applications.md
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The master URL passed to Spark can be in one of the following formats:
The cluster location will be found based on the HADOOP_CONF_DIR or YARN_CONF_DIR variable.
k8s://HOST:PORT cluster mode. Client mode is currently unsupported and will be supported in future releases.
+ client or cluster mode depending on the value of --deploy-mode.
The HOST and PORT refer to the Kubernetes API Server.
It connects using TLS by default. In order to force it to use an unsecured connection, you can use
k8s://http://HOST:PORT.