Posted on May 06, 2025 at 21:29. / Modified on May 06, 2025 at 21:31.
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It is a Haussmannian building as there are hundreds between the Place de la Concorde and the Madeleine church. Behind the imposing carriage door of this Parisian building of chic rue Royale, however, hides one of the most important and unknown bodies of world football: FIFA Clearing House (FCH). Created at the end of 2022, this compensation chamber revolutionized the payment of solidarity contributions. Since 2001, during each transfer of a professional player to another country before the end of his contract, 5% of the amount of this transfer is paid by the buyer and then distributed among all the clubs where he was dismissed between his 12 years and his 23 years.
For more than twenty years, clubs managed the payment of these sums between them, finding themselves before the FIFA resolution chamber and the Sports Arbitral Tribunal in the event of disagreement. In November 2022, FIFA announced the new rules of the game: the creation of a clearing house, now intermediate of each transaction. A project in the institution’s pipes for several years. “His first objective was to guarantee the payment of training compensation, because in the past, we had seen a considerable gap between the amounts due and what was actually paid to the training clubs. Its second objective is to promote the transparency and financial integrity of football clubs, ”clarifies FIFA.
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