THE JURISDICTION OF THE FIFA AND THE CAS ON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED DISPUTES

Abstract

This article addresses the issues surrounding the establishment of FIFA and the CAS jurisdiction over employment disputes involving professional football players. In addition, it deals with circumstances where a party to a dispute is unsatisfied with a decision made by one of FIFA's decision-making bodies, that party may submit an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the decision of the aforementioned bodies, in line with Articles 23 paragraph 1 and 24 paragraph 1 of the FIFA Statutes. And on what basis does FIFA recognize CAS as a venue for resolving disputes between FIFA, members, confederations, leagues, clubs, players, officials, licenced match agents, and players' agents has also been touched up on in this paper.