Financial fair play

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The Financial Fair Play (FFP) is a regulation of the UEFA Club Licensing for participation in European club competitions UEFA. The Financial Fair Play is the successor Regulations of the UEFA club licensing system 1.0 (2002) and 2.0 (2005). Regulated in the FFP u. a. sporting, infrastructural, legal and financial criteria that the clubs must meet. The main changes in the FFP compared to the predecessor UEFA Club Licensing System 2.0 are the financial criteria, which are intended to prevent the European football clubs from becoming increasingly indebted .

background

Due to massive increases in player salaries and transfer fees , some clubs can no longer cover their expenses with current income. Instead, the financing must take place through loans or through the use of private assets . To counteract this, UEFA has adopted the Financial Fair Play regulations.

regulate

In the course of the past three years, relevant income must at least offset the relevant expenditure. If this is not the case, the previous year is also considered in order to assess whether at least a positive development can be seen.

Should the expenses exceed the income, the difference (currently 30 million euros over a period of three years) can be offset by private donors or investors. From 2018, the maximum amount of this amount will be renegotiated with the aim of reducing it to zero.

If a club does not comply with the rules , it can be sanctioned by UEFA. The clubs have agreed with UEFA to accept the sanctions.

Come into effect

Originally, the rules should apply from the 2013/14 season, the introduction took place in 2015.

criticism

Already when it was introduced, the not clearly formulated set of rules and the punishment of rather smaller clubs was heavily criticized. Industry experts now consider the set of rules to have failed. Structurally, it guarantees that “the big clubs stay big and the small clubs small” .

In the wake of the Football Leaks publications, it became known that Paris St. Germain and Manchester City were not sanctioned in the 2013/2014 season, even though, according to internal UEFA assessments, their balance sheets clearly violated the rules of financial fair play. Among other things, the sponsorship of Paris St. Germain by Qatar was rated as not in line with the market. Due to pressure from club owners on UEFA , however, sanctions were not imposed and an agreement was reached with the clubs on fines of 20 million euros.

literature

  • Thomas Dehesselles: Accounting and licensing in professional football: DFL licensing regulations and UEFA Financial Fair Play . selected topics - a critical comparison. 1st edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6941-7 .
  • Union des Associations Européennes de Football (ed.): UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations - 2010 edition . 2010 ( uefa.com [PDF]).
  • Union des Associations Européennes de Football (ed.): UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations - 2012 edition . 2012 ( uefa.com [PDF]).
  • Lena Eggerstedt: Problems of licensing and arbitration contracts in German professional football - taking into account the new UEFA club licensing regulations (=  publications on sports law . Volume 10 ). 1st edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3253-4 .
  • Benjamin Reister: Final spurt of madness . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition March 2011 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg March 2011, DNB  018278000 , p. 17 .
  • Florian Oediger: "I'm not a dreamer" . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition July 2011 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg July 2011, DNB  018278000 , p. 38-40 .
  • Alexander Graeser / Hendrik Drinkuth: Gray areas of the Financial Fair Play . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition February 2012 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg February 2012, DNB  018278000 , p. 40-41 .
  • Arnd Hovemann: What changes financial fair play . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition February 2012 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg February 2012, DNB  018278000 , p. 38-39 .
  • Tobias Kuske: It can't go on like this . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition March 2012 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg March 2012, DNB  018278000 , p. 24-25 .
  • Henning Eberhardt / Tobias Kuske: No more marching through . In: Sponsors Verlags GmbH (ed.): Sponsors edition April 2011 . Sponsors Verlags GmbH, Hamburg April 2011, DNB  018278000 , p. 32-33 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Hürner: Neymar and the Financial Foul Play. In: FAZ.net. August 8, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Christian Teevs: Financial rules softened: Investors are allowed to pour money into football clubs . In: Spiegel Online. July 2, 2015, accessed July 3, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Pact with the Sheikhs , Der Spiegel, No. 45, 2018