Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the international governing body of association football,[1] with 211 affiliated associations across the globe.[2] Among its objectives are the regulation and governance of all aspects of the game of football,[3] which it facilitates through the FIFA Statutes (which serve as the organisation’s constitution), as […]
Sport Arbitration
Arbitrations During the Paris Olympics
The Paris 2024 Olympics took place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 and were marked not only by remarkable athletic achievements but also by significant arbitration disputes. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and its temporary offices played a crucial role in resolving disputes during the Olympic games. The CAS carefully reviewed decisions […]
Sports Arbitration: Certain Unique Features and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the “CAS”)
Sports arbitration can broadly be defined as a method of resolving sport-related disputes by a final and binding arbitral decision. Today, arbitration has been firmly established as the predominant method for resolution of sports disputes, mainly thanks to the uniform practice and abundant, publicly-available caselaw of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the “CAS”), based […]
International Court of Arbitration
There are many Courts of Arbitration, but technically only one International Court of Arbitration, which refers to the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration. Somewhat confusingly for those unfamiliar with arbitration, Courts of Arbitration do not decide on the substance of disputes themselves, as this role is left to private arbitrators. We will briefly examine the […]
Palestine Threatens Sports Arbitration
The Palestinian Football Association (“PFA”) has threatened to go to the Court for Sports Arbitration (“CAS”) unless FIFA agrees to take action against Israel over clubs based in the “illegally occupied” territory of the West Bank. Our previous reporting on CAS, its role and jurisdiction can be found here. The dispute concerns six Israeli football […]
Court for Arbitration for Sports (CAS): Serbia v. Kosovo, Round 2.
There have been interesting developments at the Court for Arbitration for Sport (CAS) based in Lausanne, Switzerland: a more political than legal dispute only adding to the worsening of Serbia’s and Kosovo’s already tense political relations. In May 2016, Kosovo became 55th Member of the UEFA by a decision passed by 28 to 24 votes. […]
Arbitrage sportif – Qu’est que le tribunal arbitral du sport ?
Cet été, le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) a constamment fait la une des journaux. En effet la condamnation du skieur Martin Sundby pour dopage, la procédure de suspension de Maria Sharapova (ancienne numéro 1 mondiale russe de Tennis), l’affaire Sepp Blatter (ancien président de la FIFA) ou encore toutes les procédures liées aux jeux […]
