{"id":310219,"date":"2025-08-01T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310219\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:09:17","slug":"european-union-court-allows-challenges-to-fifa-outside-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310219\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union court allows challenges to FIFA outside Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Court of Arbitration for Sport\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4QUOJDRFGNFD3NDRHOFCSFWPNM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The ECJ said that any decision by the CAS, which is based in Switzerland, that \u201cbinds other courts or tribunals from acting \u2018are contrary to EU law.\u2019\u201d AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The European Union\u2019s top court ruled today that the decisions of FIFA can be \u201cchallenged outside\u201d Switzerland, \u201copening up a system that currently binds athletes, officials and clubs to accept verdicts there.\u201d The European Court of Justice said tribunals in the 27 EU member states \u201cmust be able to carry out an in-depth review of those awards for consistency with the fundamental rules of EU law.\u201d The ruling means that EU national courts \u201cshould be able to review verdicts\u201d from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The ECJ said that any decision by the CAS, which is based in Switzerland, that \u201cbinds other courts or tribunals from acting \u2018are contrary to EU law.\u2019\u201d The ruling marks a \u201cnew legal blow to the authority of sports bodies in Switzerland\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/european-court-cas-fifa-ruling-switzerland-57e7b3e6fda44272256780d18d68ae7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/european-court-cas-fifa-ruling-switzerland-57e7b3e6fda44272256780d18d68ae7e\">AP, 8\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ECJ said that any decision by the CAS, which is based in Switzerland, that \u201cbinds other courts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,522,7900],"class_list":{"0":"post-310219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-legal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955562435072733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}