EU Professional Football Taskforce members deal with contracts requisites for professional players

The main item on the agenda was the agreement between UEFA, the European Clubs’ Association, FIFPro, the World’s Player Association and the European Professional Football Leagues.

The role of UEFA as the governing body of European Football is to act as a moderator in issues relating to clubs’ and players’ contract agreements.

Through these meetings, the social partners have come up with a document that encourages associations and all European clubs to make sure that all minimal clauses agreed by all the parties involved in the social dialogue are included in the contracts binding players to their clubs.

This represents another positive step in the efforts to maintain a solid relationship between football clubs and their employed players. This, after UEFA, FIFA and the European Commission had paved the way with an agreement on the regulations governing international transfers of players in 2001 in light of the decision of the European Court of Justice in the case of Belgian player Jean-Marc Bosman some years ago.

During the meeting, the members of the task force held talks with the MFA president and his other officials together with representatives of Maltese clubs and players on how and when the implementation of the document can start being applied in the agreement of players.

MFA general secretary Bjorn Vassallo hailed the meeting as a very important step forward for Maltese football because thanks to the new direction of the MFA, clubs and players have started to realise the importance of a positive relationship between the clubs and players.