7 AFC criteria for professional licensing.
On Saturday, the CEOs of the Premier League clubs will hold a meeting at the National Football Center at the invitation of Mohammad Reza Skat, the manager of the club license of the Football Association. Apparently, at this meeting there will be a discussion about the challenges of the professional license of the country's clubs.
In the latest update of the Asian Football Confederation, 7 criteria for granting a professional license are considered: sporting criteria, infrastructure criteria (gyms, training ground, etc.), management and personnel criteria, legal criteria and laws, financial criteria, club development and sustainability criteria, and marketing criteria.
For the first time, the Asian Football Confederation made marketing one of the criteria for issuing a professional license, and recently this seventh criterion was established. Most of the football clubs in our country have faced many challenges in the past in terms of financial, material and sometimes legal criteria for obtaining a professional license.
Esteghlal, Persepolis, Golghar Sirjan, Tractor Tabriz, Chedormelo Erdakan and Aluminum Arak were the 6 Iranian football clubs that received professional licenses last season. The licenses issued are valid for one year only and each year the clubs must strictly follow the criteria set by the Asian Football Confederation to obtain this license.