Thanks to this program, you will specialize in Sports Law to delve into the legal and labor regime of the institutions and examine the range of rights and duties of the sports professional”

Legal issues related to sports are becoming more and more widely covered by the media. Signings that remain in legal limbo, non-payments to players, allegations of match-fixing, famous cases of doping, among other situations that transcend far beyond the sporting sphere and become increasingly complex as new legal loopholes are detected or new aspects are regulated. It is important, therefore, that those involved in the practice of sports have an in-depth understanding of why these scenarios arise and adapt to a constantly changing landscape.

Therefore, this program acquires a greater value in these times, providing students with the comprehensive perspective they need to master the constitutional framework and the legal system of sports, as well as the issues that affect their own professional development in sports. In this way, they will embark on an academic journey that will lead them to analyze sport in all it’s dimensions. As such, it will examine the conventional mechanisms that regulate it and the different institutions that are decisive in its operation.

In this sense, the sports professional will deepen in the application of Commercial Law, determining the legal profile of the contractual relations of sports entities and the legal regime of the figures affected by Competition Law. It will also examine at length the criminal proceedings in which sport and the bodies that make up the sporting justice system may be involved, going on to investigate the management of the elite athlete's assets.

With this comprehensive overview of Sports Law, the sports professional will be brought up to date with guarantees by the world's largest online university. For this purpose, TECH Technological University provides you with an extraordinary teaching team that has excelled in this subject. This and an online format in which you are in control of your own learning are powerful incentives to boost your career with great flexibility.

Determine with this program the legal figures that are affected by Competition Law”

This professional master’s degree in Sports Law contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Sports Law
• The graphic, schematic and practical contents of the program provide legal and practical information on those disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Everything you need to analyze the labor-legal regime of the sportsperson is here; from its sources of regulation to the differences with the figure of the non-professional athlete”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

The boost you were looking for in your career is in this comprehensive program. Sign up and master the incidence of the commercial regulations in sports!"

Examine the legal problems that occur when professional sports are played by women in order to contribute to a solution from your field"

When designing a professional master’s degree TECH carries out a thorough study of the area to determine the most current knowledge and include it in the program. Of course, this premise has been transferred to this degree, so that students will enjoy a comprehensive approach to the program that will significantly broaden the vision they had of the sports field. To do so, they will make use of the educational innovations that TECH makes available on the Virtual Campus.

Are you interested in learning more about Sports Law? With this program you will examine in detail the organs that comprise it and their competencies”

General Objectives

• Update legal knowledge on the commercial aspects of Sports Law
• Go deeper in the main commercial contracts related to sports
• Consolidate knowledge on the employment relationship of the professional team athlete
• Identify the characteristics of taxation from the dual perspective of the legal entity and the individual
• Analyze the application of criminal law in the field of sports
• Examine the concept of Sports Justice and its performance in the sports field
• Update legal knowledge on the management of the assets of the professional athlete 

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Organization of Sports and its Legal Regime

• Examine international sports law and the treatment of sports by international organizations
• Analyze the regulatory framework of sport and its organization
• Specify the public organization of sport (CSD, TAD, etc.)
• Develop the legal regime of sports entities and institutions: federations, professional leagues, sports clubs, club associations and other associative formulas
• Specify and identify the legal norms that have an impact on sports. Sector legislation
• Determine the sporting model of autonomous communities and local administration and its competency distribution

Module 2. Legal Regime of Sports Entities

• Develop the characteristic notes of an organizational system to contain specificities also in the framework of the accounting management, through the analysis of the normative and conceptual context
• Determine the legal figures of relevance in professional sports, such as Sports Corporations and professional leagues

Module 3. Contractual relations of Sports Entities, mainly in the commercial field

• To develop, through the concretization of the normative and conceptual framework, the knowledge of sport as an economic activity
• Carry out an analysis of practical and real cases to deal with current issues. of rigorous topicality

Module 4. Labor Law Regime for Professional and Amateur Sportsmen and Sportswomen

• Identify the sources of the special employment relationship of professional athletes
• Distinguish the employment contract of the professional athlete from other related figures
• Analyze the notes of the professional athlete's employment relationship
• Determine the legal regime for volunteering in the sports field
• Examine the employment contract and contractual modalities, as well as the mandatory content of the contract for professional sportsmen and women
• Specify aspects of the employment relationship such as preliminary agreements, the promise of contract and the possibility of formalizing the contract with a probationary period
• Develop the peculiarities of the employment relationship of the athlete in terms of working time and salary
• Identify basic aspects of the evolution and development of the employment relationship that are specific to professional sports: temporary assignments, transfers, training rights, etc
• Compile the content of the employment relationship, specifying the rights and duties of athletes; in particular, the duty of care, image rights, freedom of expression and the right to effective employment
• Analyze collective rights linked to the athlete's employment relationship, such as representation rights, the right to strike and collective bargaining rights
• Identify existing collective bargaining agreements in the field of professional sports and evaluate their content
• Examine the possibilities of modifying working conditions
• Analyze other unexpected events such as the transfer or transmission of the sports entity and the mobility of the athlete
• To present the forms of termination of the employment contract of the professional athlete

Module 5. Specific Occupational Aspects of the Professional Athlete Gender, Minors and Integration

• Identify the essential regulatory framework related to equality and non-discrimination in the workplace
• Delimit the essential assumptions regarding gender in the context of professional sports
• Analyze the adaptations and essential issues in the context of hiring and working time of professional athletes
• Assess the impact of gender on the salary framework in professional sports, as well as evaluate its protective measures
• To develop essential measures for the protection of women in occupational safety and health
• Evaluate the functioning of measures to protect against discrimination in the case of termination of the contract of professional athletes and the functioning of collective bargaining and representation rights of professional athletes, as well as their consequences
• Establish the adaptations of the essential rights of younger professional athletes
• Specify the rules of ability to contract and work in the case of minor professional athletes, as well as their training rights
• Establish preventive measures in the case of minors in professional sports
• Identify the general framework of the rights of professional athletes with disabilities, and distinguish it from related concepts
• Determine the particular applications of rights in the case of the professional athlete with a disability, with reference also to the case of occupational risk prevention

Module 6. Taxation of the Amateur and Professional Athlete

• Establish the cases in which the payments received by the amateur athlete must be taxed
• Specify the differences in personal income tax for team and individual sports
• Evaluate the athlete's tax compliance with respect to his tax obligations
• Identify the application of the different regimes corresponding to the type of activity
• Evaluate the suitability of identifying the different benefits to be received under one concept or another depending on the tax interests of the athlete
• Distinguish the tax residency of the professional athlete and the appropriate ways to vary this residency in a legal manner
• Determine the tax advantages that the athlete can claim in order to reduce the tax burden they faces on their sports income

Module 7. Taxation of Sports and Sports-Related Entities

• Establish the cases in which the favorable tax regime for non-profit entities will be applied
• Evaluate the suitability of collaborating with sports entities or associations for tax advantages of the type of collaboration
• Distinguish between strictly advertising and strictly philanthropic collaborations and identify the taxation of the one, the other and the in-between
• Evaluate the suitability of incorporating a company for the management of image rights or other assets of the professional athlete
• Determine the legality of the incorporated company and the implementation of tax compliance models to avoid administrative or criminal sanctions

Module 8. Criminal Law and Sports. Compliance

• Train the different agents in the field of sports in Sports Criminal Law: lawyers aligned with Sports Law, athletes' representatives, advisors of federations, SAD, clubs and local sports entities, sports directors, coaches, etc
• Analyze the different specific criminal offenses in sports matters
• Mediate the criminal relations of athletes
• Advise sports entities, athletes and companies in the sports sector on matters of sports criminal law
• Generate a true culture of ethical and regulatory compliance in sports
• Acquire knowledge for the implementation of a sports compliance program in SAD and clubs
• Develop legislation specific to sports Compliance
• Generate a specific guide on crime prevention in the area of sports
• Examine online sports betting and match-fixing and its impact on vulnerable groups

Module 9. Sports Justice and Conflict Resolution

• Develop the concept of Sports Justice
• Analyze the nature and typology of conflicts in sport
• Contextualize and analyze sports discipline within sanctioning law, its principles and specificities
• Examine the competent bodies in matters of sports discipline, the system of sports infractions and sanctions and the procedures and mechanisms for challenging resolutions
• Develop specialized knowledge on sports justice in doping matters: legal regime, competent bodies, infractions and sanctions, procedures and mechanisms for challenging decisions
• Establish alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in sports, with special attention to arbitration and sports mediation

Module 10. Management of Professional Athlete's Assets

• Analyze the stages and challenges of an athlete's economic life
• Identify investment options
• Establish a contingency plan
• Propose a family business protocol
• Identify the structural and cyclical risks of asset management
• Evaluate investment proposals in accordance with the contingency plan
• Examine the opportunity of the retired athlete's business life

If you are an amateur athlete or you train non-professional groups, with this Master's Degree you will go deeper in the assumptions in which the payments received for sporting practice have to generate taxation”