The UEFA Coaching Licence System and the Possible End of the Spanish FA Exclusivity

First Instance Tribunal no. 5 of Majadahonda, 2 April 2019

Date of the decision: 2019-04-02

The decision rendered by the First Instance Tribunal no. 5 of Majadahonda on 2 April 2019 (the Decision) requires the Spanish Football Association (the RFEF) to recognise a coaching licence issued by an academic institute, which is not part of the courses organized by the RFEF, with the purpose of issuing the correspondent UEFA licence and therefore allowing a coach to perform his work outside the territory of Spain.

Specifically, the Decision condemns the RFEF to realize all the necessary steps in order to issue the pertinent UEFA licence to a coach, who completed the mandatory coaching course with an academic institute and not with the RFEF.

The RFEF (along with its territorial federations) is the sole Spanish body entitled to issue UEFA licences, being the sole Spanish member of the UEFA Coaching Convention.^{^[1]} The RFEF grants UEFA licences after completing the mandatory coaching courses organized by the same RFEF. Before the Decision, in case a coach attended a coaching course organized by an academic institute, said coach was only entitled to work within the territory of Spain, due to the fact that the RFEF did not issue the correspondent UEFA...

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