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Terms & disclaimer

General information about football finance rules, not legal, tax or investment advice. Read the limits before acting on anything here. Plain English.

What this site is, and what it is not. Short version: explanatory material about rule mechanics, not advice about any club, contract or investment.

General information only

Nothing on this site is legal, tax, accounting, regulatory or investment advice. It does not create a professional relationship of any kind. If you need to act on a specific situation — a contract, a filing, a dispute — consult a qualified professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

No club-specific claims

The desk does not publish valuations, transfer sums, wage figures or compliance verdicts for individual clubs. Where an explainer uses an example, the numbers are placeholders typed by the reader into a calculator, not figures attributed to anyone.

Rules change

Financial rules are revised between editions and between competitions.
The same rule can be applied differently depending on the facts of a case.
Deadlines, thresholds and definitions in force today may not be in force next season.
Always check the current text published by the governing body before relying on anything here.

Third-party names

Competition names, governing bodies and rule titles are used descriptively, to say what is being explained. Their use does not imply affiliation, endorsement or any connection with this site.

Liability

The material is provided as-is, without warranty of completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. Decisions taken on the basis of this site are the reader's own.

Please read this first. This is general information about the structure of football finance rules. It is not investment or legal advice, it is not a valuation of any club, and it does not describe the position of any specific club. Rules change, differ between competitions and are applied case by case by the bodies that write them.