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Financial Fair Play in Football

Football Law and Linklaters’ SportingLinks have linked up to produce a podcast. In this podcast Mark Warren, Kalin Ivanov and Jason Shardlow-Wrest of Linklaters and Thomas Horton discuss how football clubs playing in UEFA club competitions or the English Football League have grappled with those competitions’ financial fair play regulations this year.

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Covid-19 and Match Tickets - Will You Get a Refund?

What will happen to football supporters’ season tickets or individual match tickets should the remainder of England’s football leagues’ clubs’ matches for their 2019/2020 seasons to which those tickets apply be cancelled or played “behind closed doors” because of Covid-19?

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Overviews

Wondering who FIFA, UEFA and The FA are and what they do as football’s governing bodies? Maybe you are wondering where the Premier League and other football leagues sit with the governing bodies? Or maybe you want to know how and what penalties are given to a footballer when charged with misconduct? Whatever football institution or procedure, here you will find an overview to get the understanding you want.

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