Preparing For Success On and Off The Pitch
Football Law In Practice - Essential is an 8 week online course , where leading football lawyers explain and provide practical insights into the important governance, legal and regulatory issues in football.
The course has been designed with LawInSport's & our lecturers' extensive experience keeping football stakeholders (including lawyers, executives and administrators across federations, leagues, clubs, players unions, agents) stay up to date on important legal developments.
The course covers a broad range of issues to give a comprehensive understanding of the import legal issues in football. We have broken up the modules to cover perspectives from football stakeholders:
- Federations (International & National)
- Leagues
- Clubs
- Players and Managers
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Agents
This course is broken down into the following modules:
- Introduction
- Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
- Governance & Investment
- Dispute Resolution
- Player & Managerial Contracts, Football Agency & Tax
- Integrity (Safeguarding, Anti-Doping & Match-Fixing)
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Commercial - Sponsorship and Media Rights
Curriculum
Welcome
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Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
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Governance, Club Ownership & Investments
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- What is governance?
- Lecturer 1: Governance structure in football
- Lecturer 2: Influencing how football is run
- Lecturer 3: Politics and governance
- Lecturer 4: Creating an incentives for growth
- Lecture 5: Role of fans & players in club governance
- Lecture 6: An Interview with Jane Purdon
- FIFA & IFAB
- Confederations
- National Associations - The FA
- Leagues - Premier League & EFL
- Stakeholders: FIFPRO, ECA, World Leagues Forum...
- Club Structures
- Further Materials
- Quiz
Dispute Resolution
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- Module Objectives
- Lecture 1: How is Arbitration Used In Football
- Lecture 2: Why is arbitration the preferred way to resolve disputes?
- Lecture 3: How is mediation used?
- Lecture 4: What are settlement agreements?
- Lecture 5: What are the most important CAS Procedural Rules?
- Lecture 6: Why selecting the right arbitrator matters
- Lecture 7: Advice for preparing for a successful hearing
- Lecture 8: Do CAS Awards create a binding precedent?
- Lecture 9 - Dispute Resolution in Brazilian Football
- Lecture 10 - An interview with Carlos Schneider
- Lecture 11 - An interview with Nick De Marco KC
- Lecture 12 - An interview with Dr. Despina Mavromati
- FIFA Judicial Bodies
- UEFA Organs for the Administration of Justice
- Further Materials
- Quiz
Players & Managers Contracts and Tax
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- Module Objectives
- Lecture 1 - What are the most important issues when negotiating player & manager contracts?
- Lecture 2 - At what point in a contract negotiation do the specific stakeholders get involved?
- Lecture 3 - When does the threshold of creating an image rights company apply and how much does it influence contract negotiations for different stakeholders?
- Lecture 4 - How solidarity contribution & training compensation, regulations of minors and 3rd party ownership investment impact contracts
Agency
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- Lecture 1 - Key Updates on FIFA's new Agents Regulations
- Lecture 2 - Working with agents in practice
- Lecture 3 - What is the role of player associations and thoughts on standardised documentation?
- Lecture 4 - How do you approach an international transfer?
- Further Materials
- Quiz
Integrity
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- Lecture 1 - What areas of integrity do you work in?
- Lecture 2 - How does your work fit with other stakeholders?
- Lecture 3 - Key regulations and laws in integrity
- Lecture 4 - Key developments in integrity
- Defining the area of integrity in football
- Anti-doping
- Match-fixing/match manipulation
- Safeguarding
- Anti-corruption, misconduct and ethical breaches
- Quiz
Commercial - Sponsorship and Media Rights
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- Meet Your Module Lecturers
- Lecture 1 - What type of commercial contract do you work on and how are they typically structured?
- Lecture 2 - Are there any regulations that influence the contracts you work on?
- Lecture 3 - What are the common mechanisms for dispute resolution?
- Lecture 4 - Key developments in commercial law
- Quiz