The CAS confirms that clubs must always act diligently and are therefore required to undertake all necessary research and take all appropriate steps before concluding an employment contract with a player. Any contractual clauses that pass the buck to the player have to be considered invalid.
In this case, the Arabian club failed to register the player due to the impossibility to meet the mandatory requirements of its Football Association and chose to fire him based on a contractual clause reading that the contract had to come to an end in the case certain facts appear. The FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber and the Court of Arbitration for Sport both confirmed that it is always up to the club to check in advance if players can satisfy the requirements mandatory for being registered.[1]
Facts of the case
In the summer of 2019, the club Al Nasr FC (the Club) - from Dubai - was looking for foreign players born...
Football Legal is an independent media publishing football law contents on a daily basis
dedicated to all football law practitioners (lawyers, clubs, federations,
intermediaries, football stakeholders, etc.).
Register today and stay tuned to the latest legal news.
Why not join us?
