Section 16 - Circular Provisions
clubs. The FIFA Players’ Status Committee may impose disciplinary measures on clubs or
players who fail to observe these payment-related obligations. Decisions of the Players
Status Committee regarding disciplinary measures can be appealed against to the
Arbitration Tribunal for Football.
5.
The administration of international transfers
Players transferring internationally, to a club in another country, are only eligible to play for
the new club in any official match upon registration by the national association to which the
new club belongs. Registration must be requested by the player’s new club in a timely
manner, i.e. during one of two registration periods established by its national association.
In order to register a player coming from another country, the national association must
request an international registration transfer certificate from the national association to
which the player’s old club belongs.
The national association from which this certificate is requested will immediately contact the
player and his old club to confirm whether (i) their contract has expired, (ii) early termination
was mutually agreed, or (iii) a contractual dispute exists. In the first two scenarios, the
national association will deliver the international registration transfer certificate within 7
days to the requesting association, with copy to FIFA. However, in the third scenario, the
national association will either deliver the international registration transfer certificate to
the requesting association:
(a) upon being notified of the decision on the sanction imposed in case of unjustified
breach, or
(b) upon being notified of the decision that the unilateral termination was justified, in
which case there would not be any decision forthcoming on a sanction on the player.
The player’s eligibility to play for his new club in any official matches may be temporarily
restricted in case the player is subject to disciplinary measures or sportive sanctions that
have been imposed in connection with his previous employment. This is meant to avoid that
a player would change clubs in order to avoid a sanction which had been imposed on him for
past misconduct.
See Art. 11.2 of the Application Regulations.
See Art. 11.3 of the Application Regulations.
See Art. 11.1 of the Basic Regulations.
See Art. 6.2 of the Basic Regulations; Art. 2 of the Application Regulations. For those national
associations which presently allow players to be registered throughout the year and do not have
registration periods, they are requested to establish such registration windows by the end of October 2001.
Until then, they are free to register players.
See Art. 6.1 and 6.2 of the Basic Regulations.
See Art. 6.3 of the Basic Regulations.
See Art. 6.5 of the Basic Regulations.
See Art. 11.2 of the Basic Regulations.
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