Abstract: Professional sports club is a legal person in nature. The residual rights of clubs include residual right of control and right of claim for residues. All suppliers of production factors except athletes can have residual rights to clubs.In the practice of professional sports, some suppliers of production factors don't take seeking profit as their goals, making the structure of residual rights of clubs different from the general corporate form, and it should be guided and regulated. Establishing residual rights owners' position and their relationships can promote and perfect the diversified legal person governance structure of professional sports clubs in China

Key words: professional sports club, residual rights, residual rights of control, claim to residue