Football Association Premier League

The Football Association Premier League Ltd (FAPL) is responsible for entire operating business of the Premier League and Championship, it's a corporation and is owned by the 24 member clubs. Each club is a shareholder, with 1 vote each on issues such as rule changes and contracts.

Duties
The FAPL itself divides its operating business into the areas of operation and licensing. The "operations" business area includes, in particular, the management of the licensed players' activities and the organisation of the competitions of the Premier League and Championship, along with the Championship promotion play-offs.

The 2nd business area, "licensing", the FAPL applies the procedure for the clubs of the Premier League under a business contract. In doing so, the FAPL will examine the extent to which the individual clubs fulfill the requirements for participation in the professional football competitions. The list of requirements includes sporting, financial, legal, infrastructural, personnel, administrative, media, and safety-related criteria. Highly important, and to date the only criterion which led to major problems for certain clubs, is the financial criterion. With this criterion the FAPL tries to ascertain that all clubs remain solvent during the season in order to be able to maintain the club operations for as long as possible. The FAPL can refuse to issue a license if a club does not meet these requirements.

With 23 other national professional league associations, the FAPL is founding member of the World Leagues Forum, founded in Zürich in February 2016. The organisation aims, among other things, to centrally combine and represent the interests of the professional leagues and their common views before FIFA and other institutions engaged in sports and politics.

Board
The 24 clubs elect a chairman, vice-chairman, CEO and 4 board of directors to oversee the daily operations of the league elected for 3-year terms. The Premier League sends representatives to UEFA's European Club Association, the number of clubs and the clubs themselves chosen according to UEFA coefficients. For the 2012–13 season the Premier League has 10 representatives in the Association: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. The European Club Association is responsible for electing 3 members to UEFA's Club Competitions Committee, which is involved in the operations of UEFA competitions such as the Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

Subsidiaries
Premier League Charitable Fund - The Premier League Charitable Fund aims to use the popularity of British professional football and the Premier League to promote and support social projects, the foundation of the Premier League is, according to its statues, to promote the sport, education and international understanding. From this emerged 4 areas of focus: the Charitable Fund encourages children, supports people with disabilities, supports integration and promotes solidarity with other sports. The Charitable Fund provides grants through application, but can also carry out their own projects and build partnerships.

Premier League Travel - Organizes travel for players, staff and fans in Premier League or Championship games

Premier League Production - Owns and runs PLTV. IMG-produced company with studio shows and commentators.