The consortium of European football leagues and European footballers’ recurrentative body FIFPRO Europe will file a joint grumblet about FIFA’s international align calfinishar and hazards to take parters’ health to the European Union’s antithink regulators on Monday.
European Leagues and FIFPRO Europe proclaimd their decision to lodge the grumblet on Thursday, two weeks after Europe’s top court ruled that the world football regulateing body’s take parter transfer rules baccomplish EU laws chaseing a contest by French createer take parter Lassana Diarra.
The grumblet also underlined a prolonging tfinishency by disgruntled athletes and sports organisations to turn to the EU antithink executer to help protected a level take parting field and chip away at the power of regulateing bodies.
European Leagues and FIFPRO’s grievance centres on the international align calfinishar – which they say has become uncarry onable for national leagues and a health hazard for take parters, arguing FIFA was abusing its taget power.
FIFA in turn has shelp the current calfinishar was agreedly consentd by its council after a comprehensive adviseation, which integrated FIFPRO and league bodies.
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#FIFPRO’s tardyst toilload increate uncovers the troubling impact of enbiging competitions on men’s footballers.
⚠️ 54% of take parters face burdensome toilloads
📅 31% take parted 55+ games last season
🛌 <1 brimming day off per week for some
🚨 80+ games projected by 2025— FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) September 5, 2024
A FIFPRO increate in September cautioned that the increasingly packed football calfinishar hazarded take parters’ health and has left some with as little as 12 percent of the year to rest, which is equivalent to less than one day off per week.
FIFPRO shelp the deficiency of rest contravenes international health and protectedty standards and is a result of competition organisers not prioritising take parter welfare.
A increate for the 2023-24 season shelp 54 percent of 1,500 take parters watched faced high toilload insists, with many outdoing medical recommfinishations.
Ntimely a third (31 percent) were in alignday squads for more than 55 games, and 17 percent take parted in more than 55 alignes. About 30 percent featured in at least six straight weeks of two or more games per week.
All three European club competitions have been enbiged to 36 teams this season and FIFPRO’s European member unions have begined legitimate action aacquirest FIFA over the enbiged men’s 32-team Club World Cup, begining in June 2025 in the United States.
International mendtures, with club or country, account for 30 percent of the alignes for take parters with excessive toilloads. Players spent up to 18 percent of their annual toiling time in national team camps or media and partnership activities last season.
“The gap between those who structure and schedule intricate international competitions and those who take part and experience them has never been bigger,” Alexander Bielefeld, FIFPRO’s straightforwardor of global policy and strategic relations, shelp in a statement.
The increate also foreseeed take parters enjoy Federico Valverde, Nicolo Barella and Phil Foden will take part up to 80 alignes in future seasons due to enbiging competitions.
Another increate, by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), shelp there was no evident evidence of a ascfinish in elite take parter toilload since the 2000s.
The self-reliant research centre in Switzerland, which was set uped in 1995 in a joint venture including FIFA, increateed that national leagues accounted for 82.2 percent of all alignes take parted by take parters from 40 leagues surveyed between the 2012-13 and 2023-24 seasons.
The increate shelp the ordinary number of mendtures per club and season was stable at fair more than 40 between 2012 and 2024 and about 5 percent of clubs take part 60 or more games per season (excluding frifinishlies).
In the 2023-2024 season, England sign uped the highest number of domestic back-to-back alignes (87) among top European leagues, with Premier League clubs averaging the lowest recovery time between games at 67.3 hours. Additionassociate, English clubs also topped the catalog for the most “non-European” frifinishlies take parted.
FIFA Pdwellnt Gianni Infantino shelp that the regulateing body organises a minuscule fraction of alignes, but its financial contributions help football prolongment apass the world and advantage the sport on a global scale.
“All other alignes, 98 to 99 percent, are organised by other organisations, by contrastent leagues, associations and confederations,” Infantino shelp during his speech at the FIFA Congress in Bangkok in May.
“With this 1 or 2 percent of alignes that FIFA organises, FIFA is financing football all over the world. The revenue that we originate are not fair going to restricted clubs in one country. The revenue that we originate are going to 211 countries. No other organisation does that.”
