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China: the government wants to "curb irrational investment" in football

"To curb irrational investment, we need rules to reduce the cost of transfers and reasonably restrict excessively high income players," said, through its spokesman, the State General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China, on 05/01/2017. This announcement follows the recent…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Finance, Legal, …
• Article # 84701
• Published on 16/03/17 at 17:47
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UEFA: governance and elections to the agenda of the 41st congress in Helsinki (FIN), the 05/04/2017

"Amendments to UEFA Statutes - Good Governance reforms" is one of the main items on the agenda of the 41st Ordinary UEFA Congress, organised at the Messukeskus Congress Centre in Helsinki (FIN), on Wednesday, 05/04/2017. Other items on the agenda include the election of eight members to the UEFA…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 89156
• Published on 16/03/17 at 17:42
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LaLiga Santander: opening of the first "LaLiga Lounge" in Doha (Qatar) before the end of 2017

LaLiga will open, before the end of 2017, "LaLiga Lounge", a coffee shop dedicated to LaLiga Santander, in Doha (Qatar), announced the Spanish League on 11/03/2017. The hotel will be located within the Hotel Park in Doha, a leisure complex owned by Katara Hospitality, a developer, owner ,and…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Marketing - Communication, Stadiums
• Article # 89203
• Published on 15/03/17 at 14:19
©  FDJ
Matchday 29 of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2: LFP and FDJ to pay €32,000 for women's football projects

The initiative "Buts Pour Elles" ("Goals For Women"), co-organised by the LFP and its betting/gaming partner FDJ, has raised €32,000 to promote women's football in clubs, indicated the French Professional Football League and the FDJ on 14/03/2017. As part of this initiative, the LFP will pay €500…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Authorities, Marketing - Communication, …
• Article # 89159
• Published on 15/03/17 at 09:50
FIFA TMS: record number of international transfers (14,591) and spending ($ 4.79bn) in 2016

14,591 international transfers were recorded by FIFA TMS in 2016, an increase of 7.3% compared to 2015 (13,601), said the subsidiary company of FIFA in publishing its Global Transfer Market Report 2017, published on 27/01/2017. These movements of players from one national federation to another…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Finance, Legal, …
• Article # 85937
• Published on 14/03/17 at 18:17
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UEFA: Euro 2024 to be hosted in Germany or Turkey, decision of the ExCo in September 2018

"The German Football Association (DFB) and the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) have both submitted a declaration of interest to bid to host UEFA EURO 2024," by the deadline of 03/03/2017, UEFA announced on 08/03/2017. "The respective national associations were both present at UEFA’s headquarters…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 89040
• Published on 14/03/17 at 14:30
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France: "Transfers are now part of the economic model of French football" (D. Quillot, LFP)

"For the first time in seven years, French professional football is break-even (net profit of €3m), and thanks in particular to €429 million in profit from transfers (20.2% of the 2015-16 cumulative revenue of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs, which reached €2.12bn in total). Today, transfers are part of…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Transfer Market, Finance, …
• Article # 88935
• Published on 13/03/17 at 16:44
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France: DNCG financial report for the 2015-16 season of French professional football

"A return to break-even for French professional football, and higher total cumulative turnover of clubs to €2bn for the first time in history," stated the LFP, who presented the 2015-16 financial report of the DNCG, on 09/03/2017. "After seven years of losses, the 2015-16 season marked a return to…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Finance, Legal
• Article # 88877
• Published on 13/03/17 at 14:40
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FIFA: first meeting of the Advisory Council on Human Rights, in Zurich (SUI), on 13/03/2017

"FIFA has set up an independent advisory body composed of international experts from the United Nations, trade unions, civil society and business. This Human Rights Advisory Board will provide FIFA with advice on all issues that the board members may consider relevant for the implementation of…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal, Social Responsibility
• Article # 89011
• Published on 13/03/17 at 13:50
©  FDJ
Matchday 29 of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2: LFP will pay €500 per goal toward women's football, via the FDJ

FDJ, the French national lottery, and the LFP are organising, for the first time, the initiative "Buts Pour Elles" ("Goals For Women") to promote women's football in clubs, during Matchday 29 of Ligue 1 and Domino's Ligue 2, from 10 to 13/03/2017. "From Friday to Monday, for the 20 Ligue 1 and…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Authorities, Marketing - Communication, …
• Article # 88862
• Published on 10/03/17 at 09:55