Defining TPO?
The issue of Third Party Ownership in football remains a live one, despite FIFA’s outright prohibition in 2015. Any analysis of the current landscape needs to start with an understanding of what is meant by Third Party Ownership, or TPO for short. A short, precise, definition is that it describes:
“A financial interest in the future transfer of a player’s registration.”
It reflects the practice, previously widespread in large parts of world football, whereby an investor, the third party, would invest in a player, a club or an academy, usually by way of a loan, in return for a right to a percentage of the future transfer fee or fees that the player who is the subject of the investment attracts. It is special to football because football is one of the only global sports with an open transfer market whereby players are traded between clubs, and because of the substantial sums...
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