Football Law Itti Sports Institute

Overview

Throughout the Football Law degree from Itti Sports Institute you will share a classroom with professionals from the most important institutions and law firms specialized in football law; a door opener for unique professional opportunities. 

A pioneering program worldwide where you will share a classroom with professionals from the most important institutions and law firms specialized in football law; a door opener for unique professional opportunities.

The program was designed by our academic directors, Daniel Cravo and Andrea Bozza, and was developed in conjunction with lawyers and authorities of great renown and prestige within the sports sector, under the auspices of AIAF, the International Association of Football Lawyers.

Thanks to the involvement of the AIAF and the welcoming support of the most important football entities, you will enjoy the possibility of living an exceptional experience: networking events, professional visits, mentoring, international trips, internships in top-level organizations.

General objectives: the Master envisages to ensure that students learn and experience recurrent – legal, strategic and decisional – issues of the football industry.

Within the context of the lectures, students will be presented with some of the most common issues in the football industry. In particular, they will be asked to deal with – and handle – specific situations, by (i) applying their skills, (ii) evaluating the nuances of football business in light of their own learning, and (iii) suggesting alternatives for the resolution of the cases at hand.

Teachers will guide students through their research, analysis and application of the skills needed to carry out the relevant problem-solving exercises.

At the end of the Master, ideally, thanks to the enhanced ability to recognize the specificities and peculiarities of the football legal environment, students shall be able to address – and place into the right context – some of the most frequent issues related to football business, as well as to choose and apply the formal and substantive arguments most pertinent to each concrete situation that arises. On the other hand, it is expected that the knowledge acquired, coupled up with the capacity and self-interest of each student, can also result in the generation of innovative ideas and approaches.

What will you learn in this Master?

• How to advise clubs, footballers, institutions, football associations, leagues, agents, brands, investors and other relevant stakeholders
• Negotiating and drafting football contracts
• Transfer and registration of players
• Doping cases
• Sponsorship contracts and exploitation of image rights
• Procedures before national and international organizations, courts and arbitration tribunals, notably the FIFA judicial bodies and the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS)
• Apply your day-to-day practice skills in more orthodox areas of law (tax, IP, corporate, etc.) to the specificities of the football industry