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CAS 2015/A/3891, Kasimpasa Spor Kulübü v. Fernando Varela Ramos, Award of 10 December 2015

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Abstract

The case commented on here centres around a football player who did not attend a training camp with his club and allegedly left the club on other occasions without permission. As a consequence, the club terminated the player’s employment agreement with immediate effect. Both the FIFA DRC and the CAS ruled that the termination was without just cause because the club had not discharged its burden of proving that the player had repeatedly breached his contractual obligations. Furthermore, even if the player had not properly fulfilled his contractual obligations, the club, before terminating the contract, could and should have enacted more lenient measures against the player in order to fulfil its own duty to uphold the contract.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    CAS 2015/A/3891, Kasimpasa Spor Kulübü v. Fernando Varela Ramos, Award of 10 December 2015, paras 4–22.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., para 62.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., paras 63–64.

  4. 4.

    As quoted in the Award, clause 5.11 provided that: “The Club is obliged […] to involve the Player in the Club’s sporting, advertising and public events”.

  5. 5.

    CAS 2015/A/3891, Kasimpasa Spor Kulübü v. Fernando Varela Ramos, Award of 10 December 2015, para 65.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., para 66.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., para 67.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., para 68.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., para 69.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., para 70.

  11. 11.

    CAS 2013/A/3216.

  12. 12.

    CAS 2006/A/1180, Galatasaray SK v. Frank Ribéry & Olympique de Marseille, Award of 24 April 2007, para 8.4.

  13. 13.

    CAS 2014/A/3675, Talaea El Gaish Club v. Dodzi Dogbé, Award of 27 January 2015, paras 55–56 e contrario. See below Sect. 3.1.

  14. 14.

    CAS 2008/A/1518, Ionikos FC v. L., Award of 23 February 2009, para 63.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., para 58.

  16. 16.

    CAS 2015/A/3891, Kasimpasa Spor Kulübü v. Fernando Varela Ramos, Award of 10 December 2015, para 54.

  17. 17.

    The Swiss Football Federation introduced the following clause in its standard contract templates: “In the event of violations related to conduct off the field (repeated and unjustified late arrivals for training, unjustified late return from vacations, repeated and unjustified absences, violation of the obligations arising from the employment contract, damage to the image of the club, etc.), a maximum penalty of CHF [amount]” may be imposed on the player.

  18. 18.

    See footnote 1 above.

  19. 19.

    SFT 4A_53/2011, decision of 28 April 2011; SFT 137 III 303; Roy Levy, The Right to Play: a professional football player is entitled to play in the professional league, 27 October 2012. https://www.lawinsport.com/blog/roy-levy/item/the-right-to-play. Accessed 17 February 2017.

  20. 20.

    CAS 2014/A/3642, Erik Salkic v Football Union of Russia & Professional Football Club Arsenal, Award of 8 April 2015, para 110.

  21. 21.

    FIFA DRC 28 June 2013, no. 06131988.

  22. 22.

    FIFA DRC 28 July 2005, no. 75368.

  23. 23.

    FIFA DRC 28 June 2013, no. 06131988: “For the sake of good order, the Chamber wished to emphasise that a 5 days’ absence of a player, even if duly corroborated with relevant documentation, cannot be considered a just cause to terminate a contract, particularly without any previous warning”.

  24. 24.

    FIFA DRC 12 January 2006, no. 16828. The FIFA DRC considered whether absence from the team’s training can generally constitute just cause for a club to unilaterally terminate the employment contract. The FIFA DRC held that a player’s absence from training sessions for such a short period as one week cannot and does not constitute just cause for a club to unilaterally terminate the employment contract (see De Weger 2016, p. 225).

  25. 25.

    FIFA DRC 27 February 2014, no. 02141999; “[…] the Chamber wished to emphasise that a 10 days’ absence of a player cannot be considered a just cause to terminate a contract, particularly without any previous warning”.

  26. 26.

    FIFA DRC 23 March 2006, no. 36460; FIFA DRC 28 September 2006, no. 96391 and FIFA DRC 12 December 2013, no. 12131160; FIFA Commentary on the Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players, p. 40, para 4.

  27. 27.

    FIFA DRC 14 September 2007, no. 97280; see De Weger 2016, p. 226.

  28. 28.

    FIFA DRC 23 March 2006, no. 36460.

  29. 29.

    FIFA Commentary on the Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players, p. 39, para 2.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., p. 40, para 4.

  31. 31.

    CAS 2008/A/1518, Ionikos FC v. L., Award of 23 February 2009, para 61.

  32. 32.

    De Weger 2016, p. 227.

  33. 33.

    CAS 2016/A/4381, Besiktas Futbol Yatirimlari Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. v. Manuel Henrique Tavares Fernandes, Award of 12 July 2016, para 61.

  34. 34.

    Article 4(3) IBA Rules of Evidence.

  35. 35.

    Rigozzi and Quinn 2012, pp. 4–5.

  36. 36.

    Zuberbühler et al. 2012, pp. 88–89.

  37. 37.

    Berger and Kellerhals 2015, para 1338.

  38. 38.

    Bernasconi 2009, pp. 247–250.

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Levy, R. (2017). CAS 2015/A/3891, Kasimpasa Spor Kulübü v. Fernando Varela Ramos, Award of 10 December 2015. In: Duval, A., Rigozzi, A. (eds) Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2016. Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/15757_2017_8

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