Key Sports Arbitration Judgments From The Swiss Federal Supreme Court 2025
This article summarises the key sports arbitration judgments from The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (SFT) in 2025. The main principles examined relate to:
- Overview
- Jurisdictional Questions – Football (Contractual)
- Jurisdiction and Public Policy – Football (contractual)
- Public Policy - Football (Contractual)
- Right to be Heard and Public Policy – Football (Contractual)
- Right to be Heard and Public Policy – Football (Ethics)
- Right to be Heard and Public Policy (Doping)
- Request for Revision – Doping (Dismissed)
- Request for Revision – Football (Admitted)
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Written by
Dr Despina Mavromati
Dr Despina Mavromati is an independent attorney-at-law based in Lausanne, a UEFA Club Financial Control Body Member and an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She has extensive experience in international sports law and arbitration. She represents athletes, clubs and federations and advises on regulatory and sports governance matters, including the recognition and enforcement of awards and freezing of assets in Switzerland.
Despina has acted as arbitrator, counsel, co-counsel, expert or arbitrator in numerous sports arbitrations, involving contractual, governance, doping-related and other disciplinary and ethics matters. Recognized as a Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal in Switzerland every year since 2018, “Despina Mavromati is “brilliant and accomplished” and “an amazing lawyer with immense knowledge and expertise when it comes to disputes before the CAS” (Who’s Who Legal 2023).
