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After nearly 8 years of the existing regulations, FIFA is returning to the idea of licensing football agents and greater control over the intermediaries' market, including the introduction of maximum transaction fees. You will read about how the new system is supposed to work and who it affects in today's post.

Undoubtedly, the coronavirus epidemic caught everyone by surprise. The progressing uncertainty led sports clubs, not knowing whether the season could be completed, when or if they would return to normal operations, to take actions aimed at reducing costs.

The English article may seem a bit extraordinary here as I normally blog in Polish, however in my daily practice I receive a number of queries from foreigners and I trust that my post provides the explicit answers to the most common questions, concerning legal matters in Polish football.

A fairly common practice employed by football clubs is to enter into two agreements with one player, where one constitutes the football contract, and the other specifies the terms of the club's use of the player's image.

By the resolution of May 23 of this year, the Board of the Polish Football Association decided to change the regulations regarding training compensation for players. The existing rules governing this matter will apply only until the end of the year.

One of the most important FIFA regulations concerning the transfer market and the rights and obligations of players and clubs is undoubtedly the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, which has been frequently mentioned on the blog.

In 2015, the Polish Football Association changed the regulations regarding football agents, replacing the licensing system with a registration procedure. After two years, the association decided to make certain corrections and changes in resolution No. III/42 of March 27, 2015, of the Board of the Polish Football Association regarding cooperation with transaction intermediaries.

 Despite the transfer window being in full swing, there is probably no doubt that Neymar's transfers from FC Barcelona to PSG will overshadow any other transfer. The Brazilian moved to Paris, and according to reports in the media, Barcelona received a record-breaking 222 million euros for the transfer.

I have already written about the training compensation in football on the blog (here). However, the training compensation is a quite common concept in the regulations of sports associations, so we can find relevant provisions in many other disciplines as well.

In today's post, I would like to address the topic of enforcing awards from final judgments of the Football Arbitration Court of the Polish Football Association (PZPN), and therefore discuss the further steps that a party can take when the debtor does not voluntarily fulfill the monetary obligation.

For many players taking their first steps in senior football, one of the first contracts they sign is with a transaction intermediary. At the current stage of professionalization in sports, signing a contract with a transfer intermediary often precedes signing the first professional contract chronologically.

During the peak of the transfer window, when everyone was still engulfed in football fever after the EURO