CAS 2015/A/4345, Trabzonspor Sportif Yatirim A.S. v. UEFA & CAS 2015/A/4347, Fenerbahce SK v. Trabzonspor A.S. and U
The case under review is related to the July 2011 Turkish match-fixing scandal and could be described as the second wave of the Turkish match-fixing saga, after Fenerbahçe S.K. v UEFA in 2014. Unlike the first wave, the case pitched another Turkish club,
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Facts and Procedure of the Case......................................................................................... 1.1 The Parties in Dispute ................................................................................................ 1.2 The July 2011 Match-Fixing Scandal and Factual Background ............................... 1.3 Proceedings Before the UEFA CEDB and the UEFA Appeals Body...................... 1.4 Proceedings Before the CAS...................................................................................... 2 Issues in Dispute and the Panel’s Findings ........................................................................ 2.1 Issues in Dispute......................................................................................................... 2.2 The Panel’s Findings.................................................................................................. 3 Remarks on the Panel’s Findings ....................................................................................... 3.1 Specific Arbitration Clause by Reference and Corporate Veil Piercing in International Sports Arbitration ............................................................................. 3.2 A Third Party’s Standing to Appeal Under Article 62(2) of the UEFA Statutes........................................................................................................................ 3.3 Match-Fixing Allegations and UEFA Europa League Admission Form.................. References ..................................................................................................................................
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Abstract The case under review is related to the July 2011 Turkish match-fixing scandal and could be described as the second wave of the Turkish match-fixing saga, after Fenerbahçe S.K. v UEFA in 2014. Unlike the first wave, the case pitched another Turkish club, Trabzonspor, not only against UEFA but also against its old rival Fenerbahçe S.K. in a hearing room in Lausanne, Switzerland. As will be discussed further, these complex appeal arbitration proceedings, besides being a landmark case for Turkish and European football, also had an important impact on
C. Kalelioğlu (&) Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, London, UK e-mail: [email protected] © T.M.C. ASSER PRESS and the authors 2019 A. Duval and A. Rigozzi (eds.), Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2017 https://doi.org/10.1007/15757_2019_25
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UEFA’s match-fixing related legal framework. The arbitral proceedings involved highly complex, substantive and procedural issues such as: standing to appeal; corporate veil piercing; UEFA Admission Form and the notion of match-fixing. The importance of this case can be summarised as follows: first, prior to this case, UEFA rules and regulations were silent on what type of match-fixing proceedings should be mentioned by a football club when submitting its Admission Form for the UEFA Champions League or the UEFA Europa Lea
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