In this article, three recent groundbreaking scenarios regarding the payment of transfer and release (exit) fees in the A-League are explored.
(Picture from left to right: Taylor Regan, Riley McGree & Reno Piscopo)
Historically, Australian professional A-League clubs which operated under a salary cap environment would never engage in the transfer of players as they preferred signing players who were free from contract. Further, the registration framework that applied to the A-League did not allow for the transfer of players between A-League clubs. The Football Federation Australia (FFA) National Registration Regulations (NRR) refer to the inability of an A-League Club paying a transfer fee to another A-League Club. The NRRs[1] state at clause 9.4 that “a National League Club cannot transfer or loan a Professional: to another National League...
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