There are many reason you might want to sanction as store but know that this is a big responsibility. 

Its key the Owner or Manager of the store is the one to apply for the Store League OR an agreement is in place where a professor with enough experience in the program can sanction the league while the owner gets his 101 and background check to eventually [[Take Over The League]].

To start you can visit the link here:
- https://retailer.pokemon.com/s/venue-review?strategy=playpokemon

Log in with you Play! Pokemon ID

You will be met with the following screen but your information:
![[Getting a store sanctioned - Venue Review - Page 1.jpg]]

From there we can click `Next` and will see this:
![[Getting a store sanctioned - Venue Review - Page 2.png]]