Fairness and Football: is CAS actually ready for its new challenges?

The overshooting FIFA’s regulatory passion and the new scenario for its application

The major role FIFA plays in football is due to the pyramid structure of football and as for that structure, sports associations usually have practical monopolies in a given sport and may thus normally be considered in a dominant position in the market of the organization of sports events under Article 102 TFEU.

Thereby, as a result of the autonomy of sports organizations and the “specificity” of sports, sports organizations have a certain margin to make up rules and regulations.

But the objectives of FIFA, established in Article 2 of its Statues (to improve the game of football and to organize its own international competitions), have become greatly exceeded by the content of its Regulations.

In fact, in the last decade FIFA has been going beyond the scope of its real objectives, and has been increasing the number of...

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