Professional coaches have not been part of the FIFA “Football Family”. From January this year that has all changed…
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FIFA Regulations | Lex Sportiva, published by Lex Sportiva, focuses on the legal and regulatory aspects of international football governance. The blog covers topics such as FIFA's rules on player transfers, training compensation, and solidarity payments to clubs developing young talent. It also analyzes changes and controversies in football laws, including handball rules and their interpretation in leagues like the English Premier League. Additionally, it addresses the evolving status of professional coaches within FIFA's framework and the mechanisms FIFA employs to monitor compliance with its regulations. The content is centered on the intersection of sports law and football administration.
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Premier League Handballs – A Flawed Interpretation?
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New season, new rules. The handball law has changed again, purportedly for the better, but has the English Premier League got it horribly wrong? Arjun Khanna looks at the changes made to the law and how the FA may have…
The Premier League’s Handball Rule
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The Premier League season’s first major controversy… In this article we look at the changes to the accidental handball rule implemented by IFAB and why its revised interpretation is wreaking havoc in penalty areas and sending Carragher, Neville et al.…
FIFA’s Clearing House: Monitoring Training Compensation and Solidarity Contribution Payments
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In 2018 $350m should have been paid in “Solidarity Payments” to clubs that develop young talent, but only $68m got through. Rafael Martins investigates what steps FIFA are taking to make sure the clubs that train young talent get their…
The Transfer Matching System
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The international football transfer market is a multi-billion-dollar industry with around 12,000 cross-border transfers of professional male players taking place each year, so why does it occasionally go so spectacularly wrong?
Greek Football Clubs: A Game of Hide and Seek
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Gone today, here tomorrow? Greek football clubs are under financial pressure and Antonis Vogaitzakis looks at the measures that they resort to, and how they align with FIFA’s regulatory framework.
Football during Covid-19: No play no pay?
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Could you ever have imagined life without football? A time where football competitions were cancelled or postponed all over the world? A time when, in most parts of the world, a football match could not be scheduled due to social…
Bridge Transfers
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On 13 February 2020 (in Circular no. 1709) FIFA announced its new edition of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (FIFA RSTP) that entered into force on 1 March 2020. This new version includes important news that…
FIFA’s Regulatory Changes to TPO
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FIFA has changed its definition of Third Party Ownership. Why has it done so and what are the consequences for players?
Italy’s New Licensing System For Agents
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Introduction In June 2009, FIFA started the process to alter their regulations and control over agents, which culminated with approval of the new Regulations on working with intermediaries which came into force on April 2015[1]. When these regulations came out,…