The Master's thesis analyses the impact of actors' regulatory power on the normative framework of the international sports regime and explores how the loss of such power affects change within the regime. This impact is analysed based on three objectives. The first objective is to place sport within the concept of international regime. The second objective is to analyse the historical development of the international sports regime and, within it, the international football regime through the prism of the relations between the European Union and the Union of European Football Associations. The third goal is to analyse the change in the regulatory power of the Union of European Football Associations and the normative changes of the regime using the concept of international regime and the principal-agent model. Based on a case study, i.e. the attempt to establish a European Super League in 2021, the Master's thesis examines how the Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union has changed the regulatory power of the Union of European Football Associations as a key actor in the regime, and what consequences this has had for the normative framework of the international sports regime. The Master's thesis shows that actors' regulatory and normative powers are inseparably linked, and that the loss of their regulatory power does not guarantee a change in the normative framework of the international regime.
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