According to the regulations, clubs that sign a free agent are also responsible for compensating the player’s previous team if the player’s contract was terminated without cause.
After his contract with Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow ended in 2014, Diarra claimed that the regulations violated competition law by limiting his freedom of movement.
The court concurred that Fifa’s denial of an international transfer certificate (ITC) to Diarra for a planned relocation to it.
According to Charleroi, a Belgian team, its regulations “impede the free movement of professional footballers wishing to develop their activity by going to work for a new club” from 2015.
In an effort to modify the regulations, FIFA has now declared that it will initiate a “global dialogue” with footballing stakeholders.
Fifa top legal and compliance officer Emilio Garcia Silvero stated, “Fifa sees the Diarra decision as an opportunity to keep modernizing its regulatory framework, which has been one of the declared objectives of the Fifa president since 2016.”
“Fifa is satisfied that the legality of key principles of the transfer system have been reconfirmed,” a Fifa official stated following the Diarra judgment.
