The Solu­tions of Dis­putes Arising from the Foot­ball Man­ager Con­tract with For­eign Ele­ment and the Ap­plic­able Law

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Cemil Güner’s art­icle, pub­lished on 19 April 2019, ad­dresses the dispute-resolution routes avail­able for foot­ball man­ager con­tracts with a for­eign ele­ment and the law to be ap­plied when such dis­putes come before Turk­ish courts. It states that parties may bring the dis­pute before state courts or the Court of Ar­bit­ra­tion for Sport (CAS), while foreign-element dis­putes cannot be taken to the Turk­ish Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion Dis­pute Res­ol­u­tion Board; before CAS, the tribunal ap­plies the law chosen by the parties, or Swiss law if none is chosen. For pro­ceed­ings before Turk­ish courts, the art­icle ex­plains that Art­icle 27 of the Turk­ish PIL Act ap­plies where the con­tract con­tains ele­ments of an em­ploy­ment con­tract, where­as Art­icle 24 ap­plies where it con­tains ele­ments of an agency, broker­age, com­mis­sion or con­sultancy con­tract.