Abstract: The particularity of youth sports club management is embodied in five aspects: susceptibility to the restriction and influence of the franchisor and the supporting institutions and the lack of individual interests, competition mechanism and the corresponding performance evaluation system, which leads to the failure to measure organization performance via profit. Field research reveals the main problems of youth sports club management in China, including the unsound internal governance mechanism, the lack of rules and regulations and the imperfect external governance environment. The paper accordingly suggests the corresponding measures of the materialization operations of China’s youth sports clubs by means of perfecting the internal governance structure and optimizing the external governance environment by forming the many-sided monitoring mechanism based on law, government, federations, independent evaluation agency and public opinion.

Key words: youth sports club, internal governance structure, external governance environment