CAS Mediation: facts and figures

Sporting disputes - and in particular football-related disputes - bear numerous particularities compared to other commercial or personal disputes. The same applies to the mode of resolution for sports-related disputes, which are typically resolved through arbitration: in this respect, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is widely-known for its sports arbitration mechanism, developed upon the initiative of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President J. A. Samaranch thirty two years ago. To date, CAS has registered more than 4,200 procedures, with an average of almost 400 registered procedures per year since 2011.

CAS mediation was first initiated in 1999 and has registered approximately 50 mediation procedures. Interestingly and notwithstanding the low number of procedures, many different types of disputes were resolved through mediation and the success rates (i.e. cases in which the parties...

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