Section 10 - Circular Provisions
the amount of the compensation for training and education and the way in which it should
be distributed to the different clubs where the player played previously. The player shall, if
so requested, assist the new club in discharging this obligation.
The FIFA Players Status Committee may impose disciplinary measures on clubs or players
who do not observe these payment-related obligations.
- e. Scope of the training compensation system
Finally, it bears emphasis that this entire system of training compensation only applies to
international transfers of players younger than 23 years. In other words, these rules do not
apply to national transfers, although in this respect National Associations shall adopt rules
on transfers which must be in conformity with the principles of the FIFA Regulations.
Moreover and regardless of the nationality of a player or the status or location of any club
involved in an international transfer, no training compensation is due when a player aged 23
years or more changes club.
3.
Contractual stability
Contractual stability is of paramount importance in football, from the perspective of clubs,
players, and the public. The relations between players and clubs must therefore be governed
by a regulatory system which responds to the specific needs of football and which strikes
the right balance between the respective interests of players and clubs and preserves the
regularity and proper functioning of sporting competition.
Accordingly, the new Regulations seek to ensure that, in the event a club and a player
choose to enter into a contract, this contract will be honoured by both parties. Unilateral
termination of such contracts particularly during the first three, or depending on the age of
the player two, years is to be discouraged. On the other hand, the rules also reflect the
recognition that players may have sportive justification (‘sporting just cause’), which can go
beyond just causes found in regular employment law and the previous FIFA Regulations on
the Status and Transfers of Players, to terminate a longer term contract unilaterally.
- a.
(i)
Contractual breaches
Sportive sanctions
See Art. 9.2 of the Application Regulations.
See Art. 9.3 of the Application Regulations.
See Preamble to the Basic Regulations.
See Art. 20 of the Basic Regulations.
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