Each football club chooses the most suitable and adequate legal form for its operating that also allows cooperation at competitions as well as enables good business results. The theme of my master thesis is presentation of legal regulating legal forms of operating football clubs in Slovenia and Europe and comparison between them to value and upgrade the situation in Slovenia on the basis of the best solutions.
In Slovenian legislation, with the exception of the principle of limited number of legal forms (numerus clausus), there are not any strict limitations of establishing a club in any legal form. On the other hand, the rules which refer to union of associations, still direct Slovenian clubs to choose their legal status today. In English, French and Italian football league, football clubs organized as limited companies prevail. In Germany, according to the rule of German Football League, there is prescribed “50+1” rule. Spanish clubs are forced to be organized in a special form of performing business activities, public limited sports company (SAD), with the exception of four football clubs, which operate in the system of non-profit sports organizations, owned by the so-called socios (club members).
The author in the master thesis assesses the situation in Slovenian football area from the point of view of legal forms of football clubs operating and shows the way to modernized and optimal legal possibilities to set the area of his consideration on the basis of comparative legal analysis.
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