July 23 – UEFA is celebrating a landmark court ruling which it says justifies its policy of financial fair play. The European Court of Justice has dismissed a legal challenge to the system following a Belgian court’s request for a preliminary judgment.
UEFA says the decision shows the case was “manifestly inadmissible” after the Belgian court apparently failed to provide any of the necessary information to enable the ECJ to address issues of European competition law.
The case was brought by a player’s agent in Belgium whose legal team argued that FFP protects elite clubs.
In a statement UEFA said the outcome was “logical and sensible” and that FFP was “backed by the overwhelming majority of stakeholders in European football and which has, in a short space of time, already delivered real, concrete and tangible results which will help safeguard the future and longstanding prosperity of the game in Europe.
“Financial Fair Play has also been publicly supported on many occasions by the institutions of the European Union, including the European Parliament and the European Commission.”
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