Towards a global regulation of the football industry

Abstract

The author talks about the evolution of the football system from the perspectives of the markets, sport, and its centrality in a state's economy and internationally. The paper analyzes its exponential growth, which makes a financial change and improvement to respond to important competition costs and, in general, economic operations increase with the realization of a global regulatory harmonization. In fact, there is the implementation of a rules system that want to strengthen the transparency in these operations. Also, the author finds to examine the new regulation effective from 2023 and related sanctions. Another thematic here are multi-club ownerships (MCO), which are always more central and frequent; as the "sui generis" role of the sports agent and the development of the illegal practice of third-party ownership.