PREMIER LEAGUE

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RULES
EFFECTIVE MEASUREMENT
In either case, the League reserves the right to assess, following the start of Season 2012/13, whether the correct staffing
structure and facilities are in place, and to require a further ISO Audit to be undertaken. Thereafter, if appropriate the Club
may be referred to the PGB with a recommendation that its Academy Licence is withdrawn or that its Academy is given
a lower Category. Clubs’ attention is drawn to Rules 243 to 244 and the powers of the Board concerning Academy Players’
registrations where this occurs.
2. The League envisages that the following timetable will apply for Football League clubs:
2.1. Each Football League club which makes an application to operate a Category 1 Academy with effect from the
start of Season 2012/13 must comply with the timetable set out in Rule 33.
2.2. Each Football League club which makes an application to operate a Category 2, 3 or 4 Academy with effect
from the start of Season 2012/13 must make its application by no later than 31 May 2012. The applications
will be assessed by the Premier League (applications to operate Category 2 Academies) or the Football League
(applications to operate Category 3 or 4 Academies). In undertaking the assessments, the League or Football
League as appropriate will determine whether the club meets the relevant criteria under these Rules and, only
if the club does so, grant it a provisional licence to operate an Academy. The club will then be the subject of
an ISO Audit by no later than 31 May 2014, the results of which will be referred to the PGB. The equivalent
Football League regulation to Rule 10 shall then apply.
Productivity Profile
34. Each year the League will provide each Club which operates an Academy with an up to date
Productivity Profile, benchmarked (on an anonymised basis) against other Clubs (and, if
appropriate, Football League clubs).
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