Module 5: Disputes and the Football Tribunal

4 lessons · about 3 hours of study. Part of the full course.

Module 5

How FIFA’s Football Tribunal resolves disputes: its three chambers, who can bring a claim, communications and time limits, how a claim proceeds to a decision, costs, mediation, training reward and minors applications, and the route on to CAS.

Primary material: FIFA Procedural Rules Governing the Football Tribunal, articles 1–35 · study pack pp. 210–226

What you will be able to do

  • Name the tribunal’s three chambers and who may be a party before them
  • Explain why missing the ten days to request grounds ends the right to appeal
  • Calculate when a time limit starts and ends
  • Decide which chamber hears a dispute, and whether it costs anything
  • Judge whether to accept a proposal from FIFA’s general secretariat
  • Plan a client’s claim from filing to final decision

Your learning path

Lessons

Work through the lessons in order, then check your readiness in the timed module test.

  1. 01 Lesson 5.1The Football Tribunal 7 min
  2. 02 Lesson 5.2Parties, communications and time limits 11 min
  3. 03 Lesson 5.3How a claim proceeds 11 min
  4. 04 Lesson 5.4Training rewards, passports and applications 8 min
  5. 05 AssessmentModule test 54 min