News ID: 537

Date: 04 January 2026 - 14:49

#Club_Licensing

Club Licensing Regulations for Current Premier League Season

FFIRI has approved updated Club Licensing Regulations, which will be implemented starting from the current Iran Football Premier League season.

According to the FFIRI’s official website, the Club Licensing Department announced that the updated Club Licensing Regulations were ratified at the meeting of the FFIRI’s Executive Committee on September 15th, 2025 and will be notified to the clubs and will come into effect for the current Iran Football Premier League season.

This Regulation, which has been developed based on the latest version of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Club Licensing Regulations 2024, aims to improve the management, technical, financial, and infrastructure standards of the clubs, and is considered an important step on the path to professionalization and sustainable development of Iran football.

According to the announcement of the FFIRI Club Licensing Department, the new version of the regulations includes fundamental changes and the new criteria have been added compared to the previous regulations. Among the most important additions are the following:

1)     Psychologist (P.20) gradation was increased form C to B criterion.

2)     The clubs must have an active Official website and Social Media in order to have transparent relationship with the fans and the media. (The club must own the domain of the Official website and Social Media)

3)     A Competition Officer as B gradation Criterion.

4)     A Child Safeguarding Officer as B gradation Criterion.

5)     The clubs are required to regulate and implement a HR Handbook to organise its personnel affairs as B gradation Criterion.

6)     The clubs are required to prepare a Strategic Plan and Marketing Strategic Programme both as B gradation Criterion.

FFIRI Club Licensing Department emphasized that implementation of the provisions of this regulation is mandatory for all Premier League clubs and other affiliated leagues under the supervision of the Federation, and monitoring, evaluation, and issuance of licenses to participate in domestic and international competitions will be carried out only based on compliance with these requirements.

FFIRI Club Licensing Regulations for Premier League, Division One (Azadegan) and Women Premier League can be downloaded via below links:

Pro League

1st Division League

Women League