Kick-off meeting of Player Agents Workshop: Cologne, February, 2nd 2018:

In January 2018 the new project “EU Football Agents: Promoting and Supporting Good Governance in the European Football Agents Industry” starts. It is supported by the EU’s Erasmus+ Program (Collaborative Partnerships).  The project is led by Edge Hill University (represented by Professor Richard Parrish) and the project partners are the Universidad Carlos III Madrid, the University of Umeå in Sweden and the University of Rijeka in Croatia. German Sport University Cologne is represented by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mittag in this project.

The first meeting of the project takes place on February, 2nd 2018 at German Sport University Cologne. The focus of this project is to undertake evidence based research in order to promote and support good governance in the context of the regulation of football players’ agents (now referred to as ‘intermediaries’) in the EU. Particular attention will be given to the introduction of the 2015 RWWI, that has refocussed the nature of agent regulation. Under the 2008 PAR, the focus was on regulating the agent and under the RWWI the focus is on regulating the transaction.