Sports Law & Practice

This is indeed a very difficult question and its answer requires consideration of several different issues. Such issues give rise to a number of complicated legal considerations that concern the standing of the complainant to sue and the legal basis of the complaint.

 The last two decades have served as a catalyst towards enormous changes in the world of football. Several decisions by the European Court of Justice and numerous discussions between football governing bodies and the European Commission, have set the framework in which contractual stability in football could be achieved. Such framework attempts to strike a balance between the rights of football governing bodies and individual players, but is it true that such balance does not exist?