Typology of Academies and Topical Examples

* 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.

“[…] the pool of talent is not only captured by competitions under the national associations but also by unofficial networks and football academies through which the FIFA transfer rules do not apply.”^{^[1]}

Typology of Academies

Although the term ‘academy’ has historically related to the youth development wing of a club, the sport’s governing bodies have increasingly had to contend with the emergence of youth centres outside of organised football which are independent of any club or...

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