FIFA Clearing House Regulations practice questions

Five sample questions from the January 2026 edition, with the answers and explanations shown. The quiz bank holds all 135 questions on this document.

These five questions show how the quiz bank tests the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. The quiz bank holds all 135 questions on this document, with scoring, timed papers and the exam simulator. Every article in this regulation is listed on the article index.

1. Which of the following statements about the documents used to process a training reward through the FIFA Clearing House are correct?

The Allocation Statement is issued by the FIFA general secretariat to the FIFA Clearing House and names the paying and receiving parties and the amounts, under article 12(1) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. (Definition 2, definition 6, definition 14, article 12(1), article 13(1) and article 14(1), study pack pp. 246-248) Correct
The Request to Pay is issued by the FIFA Clearing House to the new club and details the total amount the club owes it, under article 13(1) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. (Definition 2, definition 6, definition 14, article 12(1), article 13(1) and article 14(1), study pack pp. 246-248) Correct
The Distribution Statement is issued by the FIFA general secretariat to the new club and lists the training clubs it must pay directly, under article 14(1) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations.
The Request to Pay is issued by the FIFA general secretariat to each training club and states the amount that club may claim from the new club, under article 13(1) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations.

The definitions of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations (definitions 2, 6 and 14) and articles 12 to 14 allocate the three documents. The Allocation Statement is issued by the FIFA general secretariat to the FIFA Clearing House and gives the paying and receiving parties and the amounts; article 12(1) has the general secretariat send it once notified, so A is right. The Request to Pay is issued by the FIFA Clearing House to the new club for the total amount due (article 13(1)), so B is right and D, which gives it to the general secretariat and the training clubs, is wrong. The Distribution Statement is generated by the FIFA Clearing House on receipt of the new club’s payment and notified to each training club (article 14(1)); the new club never pays the training clubs directly, so C is wrong.

2. Where does a term such as “training compensation” or “bridge transfer”, used but not defined in the FIFA Clearing House Regulations, take its meaning?

From the Procedural Rules Governing the Football Tribunal, as the definitions in the FIFA Clearing House Regulations send undefined terms to those rules, as they do for the Dispute Resolution Chamber.
From the implementing provisions of the FIFA general secretariat, as article 25 of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations entrusts it with the operational management of the Regulations.
From French law, as the definitions in the FIFA Clearing House Regulations describe the FIFA Clearing House as an independent legal entity domiciled in Paris.
From the FIFA Statutes and the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, whose terms apply under the definitions and article 21(2) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. (Definition, article 21(2), definition 5, definition 12 and article 25, study pack pp. 258-259) Correct

The opening sentence of the definitions, repeated by article 21(2) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations, applies the terms set out in the FIFA Statutes and the RSTP, as well as the Regulations’ own definitions. Training compensation and the bridge transfer are RSTP terms, so D is right. The Procedural Rules supply only the meaning of the Dispute Resolution Chamber, which the definitions describe as the chamber of the Football Tribunal as defined in those rules (definitions 5 and 12), so A is wrong. Article 25 lets the general secretariat adopt implementing provisions, not redefine the Regulations’ terms, so B is wrong. The Paris domicile of FIFA Clearing House SAS (definition 9) does not import French law into the terms of the Regulations, so C is wrong.

3. In January 2026, Ribeira Atlântica FC, a Portuguese club, signs Mikkel Sandvold, a 21-year-old Danish professional, from Aalholm BK, a Danish club, for a transfer fee of EUR 3 million, with a 15% sell-on clause in Aalholm’s favour. Mikkel was registered with two Danish amateur clubs from the age of 12 to 18. The Portuguese club’s finance director, Leonor Bettencourt, asks which payments arising from the deal will run through the FIFA Clearing House. Which of the following statements are correct?

The EUR 3 million transfer fee is paid to Aalholm BK through the FIFA Clearing House, as article 1(2)(a) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations tasks it with processing payments related to transfers between clubs.
Any future sell-on payment to Aalholm BK is paid through the FIFA Clearing House, as article 1(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations makes it the intermediary for all payments that a transfer generates.
Any training compensation due to Mikkel’s training clubs is paid through the FIFA Clearing House, as article 1(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations makes it the intermediary for training rewards due under the RSTP. (Articles 1(3), 1(2), 12(3) and 11(1), study pack pp. 234-246) Correct
The solidarity contribution due to Mikkel’s training clubs is paid through the FIFA Clearing House, as a training reward for which article 1(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations makes it the intermediary. (Articles 1(3), 1(2), 12(3) and 11(1), study pack pp. 234-246) Correct

Article 1(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations makes the FIFA Clearing House the intermediary for the payment of training rewards falling due under the RSTP, and the body that performs the Compliance Assessments in their execution. Training rewards cover training compensation and the solidarity mechanism, for each of which article 12(3)(a) and (b) generates an Allocation Statement, so C and D are right. Article 1(2)(a) speaks only of processing “specific payments” related to transfers; the transfer fee itself is settled between the clubs, the new club merely uploading proof of its payment in TMS (article 11(1)), so A is wrong. A sell-on payment is not a training reward and article 1(3) does not reach it, so B is wrong.

4. Verdon Olympique, a French club, buys a player from Kalmar Hamnar IF, a Swedish club. Their transfer agreement says that every payment linked to the deal is due 90 days after invoice and that any dispute about those payments goes to the ordinary courts of Lyon. When the FIFA Clearing House later issues a Request to Pay for the training rewards, Verdon Olympique argues that both clauses bind the FIFA Clearing House. Which of the following statements is correct?

The 90-day term binds the FIFA Clearing House, as article 3(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations lets the parties to a transaction agree payment terms that the FIFA Clearing House then applies.
Neither clause binds the FIFA Clearing House, as article 3(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations governs its relationship with the club exclusively by the FCH Terms & Conditions and the Regulations. (Article 3(3), definition 8, article 15(9) and article 13(2), study pack pp. 235-250) Correct
The Lyon courts clause binds the FIFA Clearing House, as the definitions in the FIFA Clearing House Regulations make it an independent legal entity domiciled in France and so subject to French courts.
Both clauses bind the FIFA Clearing House until the club signs the FCH Terms & Conditions, as article 15(9) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations gives those terms effect only from the club’s signature.

Article 3(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations governs the legal relationship between the FIFA Clearing House and the parties to transactions processed through it exclusively by the FCH Terms & Conditions and the Regulations. A payment term or a jurisdiction clause in the clubs’ own transfer agreement therefore has no effect on that relationship, so B is right and A and C are wrong; the Paris domicile in the definitions does not change this. Article 15(9) only requires a party to sign the FCH Terms & Conditions, where applicable, once the FIFA Clearing House notifies its final decision on the Compliance Assessment; it does not let the transfer agreement govern in the meantime, so D is wrong. The payment deadline itself is 30 days from the Request to Pay under article 13(2).

5. A small Member Association registers its players in an electronic system integrated with the FIFA Connect ID Service and the FIFA Connect Interface. Its clubs, however, still record national transfers on paper forms, which the association copies into an internal spreadsheet with no link to FIFA. Its general secretary, Delroy Ashpole, asks the association’s legal adviser whether this set-up meets the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. Which of the following statements is correct?

It does not, as article 4(3)(b) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations requires an electronic domestic transfer system integrated with the FIFA Connect Interface for national transfers. (Articles 4(3), 4(2) and 7(5), study pack pp. 237-239) Correct
It does, as article 4(3)(b) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations requires an electronic domestic transfer system integrated with the FIFA Connect Interface only for international transfers.
It does, provided the association declares each national transfer manually in TMS, as article 7(5) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations lets any association choose manual declaration instead.
It does, as article 4(2) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations lets an association choose between an electronic domestic transfer system and other means to communicate transfer information.

Article 4(3) of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations obliges each Member Association to use (a) an electronic player registration system integrated with the FIFA Connect ID Service and the FIFA Connect Interface to register players and (b) an electronic domestic transfer system integrated with the FIFA Connect Interface to process national transfers. A paper and spreadsheet process breaches point (b), so A is right; B is wrong because point (b) concerns national transfers, international transfers being entered in TMS (article 6(1)). Manual declaration under article 7(5) is an exception for an electronic system that cannot communicate a transfer, needs the prior written approval of the FIFA general secretariat and lasts for a defined period, so C is wrong. Article 4(2) requires associations and clubs to use all the listed systems; it offers no choice, so D is wrong.

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