The Sports Arbitration Board normally decides disputes that an individual athlete or club has with a special sports federation. Now, for the first time, the board will take a position on a battle between a special sports federation and the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF).
The Swedish Football Association opposes the decision from the Swedish Sports Confederation to introduce a ten percent ceiling on sports’ state subsidies and wants the arbitration board to give its opinion on whether the decision is legal.
The arbitral tribunal may consist of one person, but in this case there will be three members, where the Swedish Football Association and RF each appoint. Normally, the RF appoints the third, but since you are a party to the dispute, the two members appointed by the parties will elect a third, who will chair.
The members are normally elected from among legally knowledgeable persons who each special association has previously registered with RF. Here, too, the matter with motion 24 from the Riksidrottsmötet may differ.
– The parties have agreed that they also have the opportunity to choose people from outside, who are not on the list, says RF lawyer Elin Johansson.
Who will judge in the case remains secret.
– The arbitration award will be public, but not the proceedings or what the parties state during the proceedings, Johansson says.
Since the National Sports Board followed the Football Association’s line at the National Sports Meeting, questions have been raised about the composition of the arbitration committee, but RF’s chairman Björn Eriksson dismisses that this is a conflict situation and says that the board can not influence RF’s representative on the committee.
– We follow the rules that exist for arbitration and we have to choose from very competent lawyers, says Eriksson.
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