World Sports: CSD has no right to prevent La Liga overseas games, FIFA has the final right

Sports reported that the Spanish Sports High Council CSD has no right to prevent Villarreal from playing overseas with Barcelona, and Real Madrid had previously filed a complaint.

Yesterday afternoon, Le Marca had explained that FIFA had the final say in the match between Villarreal and Barcelona. According to FIFA's International Competition Rules, the match is designated as a second-level event and is scheduled to be held in Miami on December 20, and under no circumstances can the Spanish Sports Senior Council (CSD) intervene.

As Real Madrid requested in its statement against the match, the statement made it clear: "Requesting the High Council of Sports not to grant the necessary administrative license without unanimous consent." Neither the Sports Act nor the Royal Act of 1982 on International Sports Activities and Representatives. The latest version of the Sports Law will come into effect on December 30, 2022. Article 78 stipulates that competitions can be at the international, national or trans-autonomous region level. Article 81 specifically states that international competitions refer to competitions held in or outside Spain, organized directly or through a third party by the Spanish Sports Federation, and teams, national teams or athletes from other different sports federations are allowed to participate.

Paragraph 2 states that hosting international sports competitions of an official nature in Spain requires authorization from the High Council of Sports to ensure that it is consistent with Spanish foreign policy and the international commitments that the State may undertake. Changing the match location does not constitute regulation of the entire match framework and therefore does not fall under the scope of public authority commissioned by the federal government.

Similarly, Article 14 of the Sports Act also lists the authority of the CSD, which includes "authorization or denial of holding official sports competitions of international nature on Spanish territory with the consent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and the Ministry of Cooperation, as well as the use of nationally-proprietary names and logos or other competitions or sports activities that may cause confusion, and national teams at the national level to participate in international competitions". But there is no mention of the need to authorize the match between La Liga teams.

In addition, the provisions of the Royal Decree No. 2075 of 1982 on international sports activities and representatives clearly state in Article 1: "Sports competitions conducted outside the national territory, including world championships, intercontinental championships, European championships or bilateral competitions participated by Spanish national teams or Spanish club teams participating in a certain sport." And the showdown between Villarreal and Barcelona is not one of these situations.

source:7m cnc