The FFA approved a change to the 2018-2019 season A-League Player Contract Regulations which will enable clubs to commence loaning Australian players aged 23 and under to other A-League clubs.
Background
Pursuant to the most recent A-League player contracting regulations, A-League clubs were not allowed to loan players between themselves. The A-League solely allowed loans concerning Foreign or Australian players from international clubs subject to their salaries being included and calculated within the A-League salary cap unless they were a marquee player.
Specifically, A-League clubs were not allowed to loan, purchase or transfer players directly between one another, and these prohibitions were set up at the beginning of the A-League competition in 2005 in order to prevent clubs from falling into financial distress and to ensure they complied fully with the A-League salary cap requirements.
However, “the first steps towards eroding those stringent rules are close to being made with an intra-league loan system in the process of being ratified that would allow players from one A-League club to temporarily move...
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