{"id":39034,"date":"2025-08-01T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:27:08","slug":"top-eu-court-rules-that-soccer-governing-body-fifas-decisions-can-be-challenged-outside-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39034\/","title":{"rendered":"Top EU court rules that soccer governing body FIFA\u2019s decisions can be challenged outside Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union\u2019s top court ruled on Friday that the decisions of world soccer\u2019s governing body FIFA can be challenged outside Switzerland, opening up a system that currently binds athletes, officials and clubs to accept verdicts there.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the European Court of Justice said that tribunals in the 27 EU member states \u201cmust be able to carry out an in-depth review of those awards for consistency with the fundamental rules of EU law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The ECJ ruling means that EU national courts should be able to review verdicts from the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Switzerland is not a member of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The decision could end a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/european-body-upholds-fifa-ban-on-3rd-party-transfer-deals-92891e18d0894c429d02976624b08ea5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:decade-long legal fight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">decade-long legal fight<\/a> by Belgian soccer club RFC Seraing and Maltese investment fund Doyen Sports.<\/p>\n<p>They opposed FIFA rules prohibiting third-party ownership of a player\u2019s registration and transfer rights, and in 2015 asked a commercial court in Brussels to review if those rules breached EU law.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union\u2019s top court ruled on Friday that the decisions of world soccer\u2019s governing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,28329,28328,3274,561,82,834,11555,28330],"class_list":["post-39034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eu-member-states","tag-european-court-of-justice","tag-fifa","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-the-european-union","tag-world-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}