Minors’ transfers in "Organised Football"

* Barry Lysaght was previously Group Leader and Legal Counsel at FIFA from June 2012 to April 2019. He is the author of a thesis on Football Academies (“Policing Academies”) from which the work on this Special Report is based.

Organised football

FIFA includes among its objectives the drawing up of regulations and provisions governing the game of football and to ensure their enforcement.^{^[1]} ‘Organised football’ can be summarised as a shorthand for the pyramid structure of football’s global governing order under FIFA and its constituent members, and is defined in the RSTP as “association football organised under the auspices of FIFA, the confederations and the associations, or authorised by them”.^{^[2]} A confederation is a group of member associations (MAs) that belong...

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