Professional Footballers Australia
| Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) |
|
|---|---|
| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | Brendan Schwab |
| Establishment date: | 1993 |
| Seat : | Melbourne |
| Website: | http://www.pfa.net.au |
Professional Footballers Australia Association (PFA) (German: Australian Professional Footballers Union ) is a union in professional football for women, men and juniors. This union looks after its members nationally and internationally and takes on paid footballers of the Australian A-League (now named Hyundai A-League after the current sponsor ), National Youth League players and Australia's elite amateurs . The PFA presents a series of awards every year, the PFA Awards .
history
It was formed in April 1993 and was registered as a national union by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in 1994 . The Australian transfer system of that time was abolished and the PFA developed a contractual framework, professional salaries in a dimensioned range and protection against dismissals in professional football.
The PFA has been a member of the largest trade union umbrella organization in Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions , since 1994 , and of the international football union, the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (FIFPro), in its Asia / Oceania division. On the board of FIFPro Asia is Brendan Schwab, the CEO of PFA.
Career planning
The PFA determines a promising career for its members and assumes that the football career of the professionals is short-lived, revocable and characterized by frequent transfers. In 2008 there were 1,109 football professionals registered outside the A-League.
In 2007, PFA and the Football Federation Australia (FFA) formed a comprehensive partnership in a Memorandum of Understanding . This memorandum stipulates that the FFA as the responsible football organization recognizes the PFA as the exclusive contractual partner for Australian professional football and that both organizations oppose racism, drugs, illegal betting, corruption and doping.
This declaration was supplemented by other agreements, such as the Socceroos Collective Bargaining Agreement 2006-2010 and the A-league Collective Bargaining Agreement 2008-2013 , which stipulate the salary range for professionals over a 5-year period.
The soccer union supports its members in legal disputes, so in 2009 there were 22 disputes between professional soccer players and their agents or agencies in 22 cases. The PFA has launched a training program called My Football Career , which the football players of the Australian national team, the A-League , National Youth League players and Australia's elite amateurs can attend .
regulate
The PFA has sustained influence on the rules in the Australian football league, so players can now take action against them if they receive an unjustified "yellow" or "red card". It also records the injuries of the players and shows them in statistics by club out.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Professional Footballers Australia : A-league Collective Bargaining Agreement 2008 - 2013 (English), accessed on March 6, 2011
- ↑ Professional Footballers Australia : FIFPro Asia (English), accessed March 6, 2011
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : Your Career , accessed March 6, 2011
- ↑ Professional Footballers Australia : Key FFA Regulations , accessed March 6, 2011
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : FFA / PFA Memorandum of Understanding 2007 (English), accessed March 6, 2011
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : FFA / PFA Memorandum of Understanding 2007 (English), accessed March 6, 2011
- ↑ Professional Footballers Australia : Collective Bargaining , accessed March 6, 2011
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : Socceroos Collective Bargaining Agreement 2006 - 2010
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : PFA Player Management Agency , accessed March 6, 2011
- ^ Professional Footballers Australia : A-League Disciplinary Regulations , accessed March 6, 2011
- ↑ Professional Footballers Australia ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. A-League Injury Report 2008/2009 , accessed March 6, 2011
