The main issues on paying the training compensation in FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber’s cases 2015

Abstract

The Training Compensation Mechanism was established by the FIFA as a decision regarding financial balance between football clubs in cases of transfer of players. Training Compensation has an obligatory character and clubs should pay it under two conditions which are exclusively concerned with transfers and are set out in Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, particularly, in Article 20 and in Annex 4 of these Regulations. In spite of clearly, transparent provisions, football clubs often tend not to pay compensation and appeal to the disproportional amount of training compensation. In the present article the authors analyze case law of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (January- December 2015) and engage in a comparative review that determines the clubs’ weakest arguments, and why a few of clubs arguments were approved by the Chamber. Refs 5.