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Court of Arbitration for Sport award on Training Compensation

In a procedure at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, VIVA Sports Law represented the Maltese club Hamrun Spartans FC. The Maltese club was ordered by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) to pay a total amount of about 170,000 EUR to three Dutch clubs as training compensation for a new player. In its recent award, the Court of Arbitration for Sport set all three FIFA-decisions aside with the result that Hamrun Spartans FC does not have not pay a penny. “The key to success was that, after a thorough research, we could provide new envidence that convinced the CAS-panel” summarized Volker Hesse from VIVA Sports Law. “When hiring a new player, clubs must carefully establish the former career history of the player concerned in order to avoid any potential claims for training compensation against them. Hamrun Spartans FC is a small club and the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber’s decisions would have put the club in an extremely difficult financial situation. I am glad that the Court of Arbitration for Sport followed all our arguments.”