Every time a player you developed moves between clubs internationally, FIFA rules may entitle your club to a share of the transfer fee. Most US clubs never claim it. We identify what you are owed, and we recover it.
For years, the US operated largely outside FIFA's training reward system. That is changing: US clubs are now part of it, both as clubs that receive these payments and as clubs that owe them. Yet many academies and youth clubs, in the men's and women's game alike, have never checked whether their alumni's moves to Europe, Latin America or elsewhere triggered payments in their favor.
FIFA now processes training rewards through the FIFA Clearing House, based on each player's Electronic Player Passport. If your club's seasons are missing or recorded incorrectly, the money may go to someone else, or to no one.
We review your former players who moved internationally and estimate the solidarity contribution and training compensation your club may be entitled to.
We check that your club's registration periods appear correctly in the player passport, and act to correct them before allocations are finalized.
We file and pursue claims through the FIFA Clearing House and before the FIFA Football Tribunal, and handle appeals before CAS.
Signing players from abroad? We calculate what you owe, so you pay correctly and avoid FIFA sanctions or double payments.
Sell-on clauses, transfer and loan agreements, and player contracts, drafted to protect the club's position.
Guidance on the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, including recent and interim rule changes.
Send us a list of former players who moved abroad. We screen it at no cost and tell you where a claim is likely.
We map each player's registration history, transfer dates and fees, and calculate your club's share.
We prepare and file the claim through the Clearing House or the FIFA Football Tribunal, in English.
We follow through to payment, including CAS appeal where needed. Claim work is handled under a fixed or success-based fee, agreed in advance. Never hourly billing.
Ohad Cohen & Co. is a law firm based in Ramat Gan, Israel, with a long-standing football law practice representing clubs, players, coaches and federations in transfers, disputes and arbitration.
When a professional player is transferred between clubs of different national associations during a contract, 5% of the transfer compensation is set aside and distributed to the clubs that trained the player between the seasons of the player's 12th and 23rd birthdays, in proportion to the time spent with each club.
Training compensation may be payable to training clubs when a player signs a first professional contract, and on later international transfers until the end of the season of the player's 23rd birthday, for training received between the ages of 12 and 21.
Possibly not. Entitlement arises with each qualifying transfer, so a player who left your club long ago may still generate payments with every new international move. Claims are subject to strict time limits, generally two years from the relevant event.
Entitlement depends on the player's registration history and the applicable FIFA rules, not on your club's business model alone. Each case requires a review of the player's record.
Yes. The initial review is a complimentary screening of your former players' international moves. If there is a claim worth pursuing, preparation and filing are handled under a fixed or success-based fee, agreed with you in advance.
No. FIFA Clearing House and Football Tribunal proceedings are conducted in writing and online. We handle the process end to end, in English.