Status, registration and transfers

Module 3: Transfers and contracts

Lesson one covers the machinery of every transfer: who counts as a professional, how and when a player can be registered, how a player moves between countries, the rules on loans, what happens when a club doesn’t pay, and why third parties must stay out of clubs’ decisions and players’ economic rights. Many exam questions are simply numbers from this lesson.

In this lesson

• Article 2: Status of players: amateur and professional players
• Registration rules
• Registration periods, and the exceptions
• An international transfer
• Reserving claims, and the one-day route
• Article 10: Loan of professionals
• Article 12bis: Overdue payables
• Keeping third parties out