The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) considered this Thursday the veto of UEFA and FIFA illegal to the organization of the Super League by a group of teams, among them Real Madrid and FC Barcelonaconcluding that the rules applied by these two international associations are not subject to any criteria that guarantee their transparency, proportionality and objectivity.

The European High Court also warns that FIFA and UEFA They are “abusing their dominant position” with their exclusive control over the commercial exploitation of the rights derived from the competitions they organize.

However, the European Court leaves it up to national courts to verify whether this is the case or whether, on the contrary, the rules are justified and proportionate to achieve legitimate objectives.

The CJEU ruled in this way at the request of a Belgian court following the appeal presented by the Royal Antwerp club of Belgium and a player against the rules that, in the case of UEFA, have required since 2008 that clubs include a minimum of eight “locally trained players” – in the same club or in another of the national federation – in a squad of up to twenty-five, of which at least four must have been trained in the club in question.

The Belgian Federation (URBSFA) requires that the eight have been trained by the team in question. The plaintiffs appealed to Belgian justice on the grounds that these rules restrict the possibility of a club signing a player who does not meet the requirement of local or national roots and thus infringe European rules that guarantee the free movement of workers, therefore the Belgian court asked the European court.

Source: Eitb

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