If sports law is today a subject in its own right, studied and practiced by many legal professionals, at the beginning of the 1980s, it was still dominated by amateur sport and - can we say it? - when it was professional, it was managed with a certain amateurism.

To illustrate my point from the sport I know best and which is “the most popular” in France as well as in the world, French football clubs were, until then, managed in the form of associations under a Law of 1901 called “non-profit associations”: such a model would no longer be applicable today.

However, with the rise of sport’s economic value, namely the “financialization” of sport in general and football in particular, the...

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