Sports Law In 2024 – Key Issues to Watch in Central & South America

Here are the top sports law issues to watch out for in 2024 in Central & South America from the LawInSport Editorial & Advisory Board.  We hope this proves useful not only in identifying specific cases and issues, but also in detecting broader themes when read in conjunction with the contributions from other jurisdictions.

Contributors:

• Pedro Henrique Mendonça, Sports Law Consultant, CSMV Advogados, Brazil
  • Continued challenges to FIFA’s agent regulations
  • General federal law on sports
  • Sports betting
  • Olympic and Paralympic Games, and elections in sports organisation
• Pablo Mettroz Holley, Associate, Parmars,
  • How will agents’ regulations will affect the Chilean football market?
• Roberto de Palma Barracco, Sports Attorney and Arbitrator, Brazil
  • A soccer-centric view
  • Regulatory issues
  • Dispute resolution issues
  • Financial fair play issues
  • Worthy mentions
• Ricardo de Buen Rodríguez, Founding & Managing Partner of DE BUEN LAW, Mexico city
  • Paola Pliego case
  • FIFA World Cup 2026 organisation
  • New Mexican Softball league
  • Governance of National Swimming Federation

We would like to thank each member of our Editorial and Advisory Board for taking the time out of their busy schedules to share their views with us, and also more broadly for their significant input into LawInSport over the course of the year. Thank you.