Handbuch Fussball-Recht

Champions League in Sports Law: As the first handbook in Germany to deal in such detail with the legal rules of professional football, the "Stopper/Lentze" has already caused a stir. The thoroughly updated and comprehensively developed 3rd edition now adds a variety of the latest developments and practical insights to the handbook.

Chief legal advisors from umbrella organizations and top clubs, leading communication and marketing professionals, security officers, and specialists from sports research and law address the most important specific football law application and design issues systematically, which are also transferable to other sports.

• Legal Areas: Football rights, marketing and media rights, sports betting, industrial property rights, ambush marketing, antitrust law, choice of legal form for clubs, labor law, tax law, and new: procurement law, association law, data protection, and sports criminal law.

• Rights Providers: Economic and legal considerations of major associations such as FIFA, UEFA, DFB, DFL, clubs, and marketing agencies, player transfers and representation, and new: the players themselves, player representatives, eFootball, and digital marketing.

• Organization: Legal issues related to major events, security management, licensing procedures and competition integrity, financing issues and the Financial Sustainability Regulations, ticketing, anti-doping and anti-discrimination, arbitration, and new: interfaces with ordinary jurisdiction and the topics of compliance and sustainability.

Sports Law Judgments in Focus: Concise explanations of the most important decisions, a register of specific judgments, and many case studies and overviews illustrate typical scenarios in practice.