| （Department of Physical Education，Guangdong University of Foreign Studies，Guangzhou 510420，China) Abstract: In accordance with the stipulations of Chinese laws, Chinese Football Association (CFA) and FIFA, the author studied the reasons for the appearance of third-party ownership of professional athletes, its positive and negative effects on professional sports, foreign sports organizations’ attitude toward third-party ownership contracts of athletes, differences in third-party ownership contracts of athletes in the stipulations of laws and sports organizations, and differences in the related stipulations of CFA and FIFA, and found that it was difficult for laws to deal with negative effects possibly triggered by third-party ownership contracts of athletes, although sports organizations such as FIFA had issued an order to ban the sign-ing of third-party ownership contracts of athletes, its actual effect needed to be observed. In order to prevent Chinese clubs from being punished by international sports organizations or falling into contract disputes due to third-party ownership contracts of athletes, sports organizations such as CFA should strengthen the promotion of law popularization, and publi-cize the changing of rules of international sports organizations; when carrying out transnational transfer of professional athletes, Chinese clubs should follow international rules, and sign responsibility exemption clauses.
Key words: sports law；third-party ownership；professional sports clubs；athlete；football |
