By Dr. Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu On 11 June 2020, FIFA published a document (entitled ‘COVID-19, Football Regulatory Issues, Frequently Asked Questions, hereinafter the ‘CFRI-FAQs document’) to address the frequently asked questions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. The document aims to provide a more detailed analysis of some issues that were previously discussed in an earlier document (entitled ‘COVID-19, Football Regulatory Issues’, hereinafter the ‘CFRI document’) published by the organisation on 7 April 2020, as well as to provide guidance on a number of ‘new matters’. The CFRI-FAQs document sheds light on 34 different questions relating to issues that were already dealt with by the CFRI document, namely declaration of a force majeure situation, problems relating to existing agreements and new agreements, issues linked to agreements that cannot be performed as originally anticipated, modalities of amendments of season dates (current and next) and registrations periods (i.e. ‘transfer windows’) that have already been declared in the FIFA Transfer Matching System (TMS), issues pertaining to other regulatory and legal matters (such as execution of decisions passed by the FIFA judicial bodies, calculation of the ‘season’ for the purposes of training compensation and solidarity mechanism and the potential impact of the outbreak on the deadlines set out in FIFA Circular no. 1679 with regard to the implementation of the electronic player passport). The CFRI-FAQs document also deals with seven regulatory issues (referred to as ‘new matters’ in the document) that were not covered by the previous CFRI document. The issues concerned, along with the decisions taken by FIFA, can be summarised as follows:
Dr Alara Efsun Yazicioglu, of Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, may be contacted by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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