ST ALOYSIUS PRE UNIVERSITY MODEL UNITED NATIONS

COMMITTEE: Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

AGENDA: Introduction of auction system to all European Football Leagues

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 SAPMUN 2019

UNION OF FOOTBALL LEAGUE

ASSOCIATION(UEFA)

AGENDA: “Introduction of auction

system to all European Football
Leagues.”

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 Table of Contents
1. Letter from the Executive Board
2. Introduction to a few rules and procedures of
MUN
3. Agenda Discussion
3a. History of UEFA
3b. Committee insight of UEFA
3.c Insight to the present selection process
with special reference to transfer window.
3.d Auction System and how they function
3.e Some common rules and procedure
4. QARMA (Questions a resolution must answer)

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Letter from the Executive Board

Greetings Delegates,
Welcome to Union of European Football Association committee
at SAP MUN 2019.We are glad to have you guys. Our main topic
of discussion is introduction of auction system to European
Football Association.
For better understanding of the topic we request all the
delegates to go through the background guide thoroughly. All
the rules and procedure which we are going to follow in this
committee are the regular rules and procedures followed in any
other committees. It is advised for all the delegates to continue
your research keeping the agenda in mind for smooth running
of the committee. We hope for the active participation of all
the delegates and are looking forward to meeting you guys.

Thank You,

Chairperson: Abishek AS

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 Introduction to a few rules and
procedures of MUN

I. Point of Personal Privilege: It is applied if a delegate feels

discomfort. It is usually used to ask a delegate to speak up
and if the delegate would like to use the bathroom. It is the
only point that can interrupt a speaker.
II. Point of Parliamentary Inquiry: It can be used if a delegate
would like to ask the chairs upon the rules or the
procedure. This cannot interrupt a speaker.
III. Point of Order: It can be used if a delegate is sure that the
chairs have made a misuse of the rules.
IV. Right of Reply: It is used when a delegate feels that their
country or their personal integrity has been insulted and
wants to make a statement and express their complain.
V. Point of Information: It is the right to ask a question to
another delegate. It is used only when the rules permit it,
namely only during formal debate when a delegate yields
their remaining time to questions (these questions are
named points of information).

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 AGENDA: Introduction of auction system to European
Football Association.

3a. History of UEFA

The UEFA was founded in Basel, Switzerland, on 15 June 1954,

bringing to fruition the pioneering vision of a handful of key
football administrators of the time. Since then, the parent body of
European football – one of six continental confederations of world
football's governing body FIFA – has grown into the cornerstone of
the game on this continent, working with and acting on behalf of
Europe's national football associations and other stakeholders in
the game to promote football and strengthen its position as the
world's most popular sport.
The principle of the initiators in the early 1950s was the fostering
and development of unity and solidarity among the European
football community. But it has also become the guardian of football
in Europe by working closely with its 55-member associations,
other stakeholders and partners to promote, protect and nurture
the sport at all levels, from the elite and its stars to the millions
who play the game as a hobby.
The period leading up to the 1954 FIFA World Cup final round in
Switzerland, when the world body FIFA celebrated its 50th
birthday, was crucial in moves towards the foundation of an
umbrella body for European football. In the early 1950s, a number
of visionary football administrators, including the former Italian
Football Association secretary and president, Dr Ottorino Barassi,
and his counterparts within the French Football Federation and
Royal Belgian Football Association, Henri Delaunay and José
Crahay, pursued the idea of forming a united European block.

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 However, the movement supporting a body uniting Europe’s
national football association gathered pace after FIFA had
approved the statutory basis for the creation of continental football
confederations in 1953. The early figureheads were Ebbe Schwartz
(Denmark), who became the first UEFA President on 22 June 1954,
and Henri Delaunay, who was UEFA's first general secretary from
the official founding meeting until 9 November 1955, when he was
succeeded by his son Pierre Delaunay (France), first on an interim
basis, and then officially from 8 June 1956. UEFA's duties and role
developed further as the 1960s wore on. In addition to the
formation of even more expert committees, UEFA diversified as it
gained in stature, promoting constant dialogue and a continual
search for improvement within the European game. Regular
instruction courses for coaches and referees were introduced, as
well as conferences for general secretaries and presidents of the
national associations. More comprehensive agreements with the
media and broadcasting organizations became essential,
concerning regulation of television transmissions of football
matches. Away from the competition scene, UEFA was no less
active. It was at the forefront of safety and security improvements
at football matches in the wake of the Heysel Stadium disaster in
Belgium in 1985, with stringent security requirements and
provisions for all-seated spectators put into place at UEFA matches.
By doing this, UEFA made a key contribution in the development of
modern, multi-purpose venues in which fans can watch football
matches in total comfort and safety. UEFA also undertook untiring
campaign work in various social and humanitarian areas, including
the fight against racism. Partnerships were forged with other
specific bodies as UEFA looked to support the belief that football
could be used as a force to benefit society. In the new millennium,

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 UEFA kept pace with the rapid development of new
communications outlets with the launching in 2001 of a subsidiary
company dealing with new communications, UEFA New Media –
eventually to be renamed UEFA Media Technologies SA – and
further developed the UEFA.com website.

3b. Committee insight of UEFA

On 14 September 2016, Aleksander Ceferin was elected as the

seventh President of UEFA at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress
in Athens, automatically becoming a vice-president of the world
football body, FIFA. “I am looking forward to working closely with
all of you to promote, protect and develop football across our
continent,” he told delegates at the Congress, “and to ensure that
the European football community is always united … now and in
the future."

Aleksander Ceferin

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 The UEFA President represents UEFA and chairs the UEFA Congress, as
well as meetings of the UEFA Executive Committee. In the event of a tie
in any vote, the president has the casting vote. The UEFA president is
responsible for:

• Relations between UEFA and the world football body FIFA

• Relations between UEFA and other continental confederations
• Relations between UEFA and its member associations
• Relations between UEFA and political bodies and international
organizations
• Implementing the decisions of the UEFA Congress and the UEFA
Executive Committee through the UEFA administration
• Supervising the work of the UEFA administration.

The UEFA Executive Committee is UEFA's supreme executive body. It

comprises the UEFA President and 16 other members, including at
least one female, elected by a UEFA Congress, as well as two
members elected by the European Club Association (ECA) and one
member elected by European Leagues, ratified by the Congress, all
with the same rights and duties as the other Executive Committee
members. The UEFA Executive Committee has the following non-
transferable duties:
• Overall control of UEFA and the issuing of necessary instructions
• Definition of the organizational structure
• Form and supervision of the book-keeping
• Appointment of five members of the UEFA Governance and
Compliance Committee and the issuing of their terms of reference
• Appointment of the General Secretary and deputy General Secretary
upon the proposal of the UEFA President
• Dismissal of the General Secretary and deputy General Secretary
upon the proposal of the UEFA President, or by a decision supported
by two-thirds or more of all members of the UEFA Executive
Committee
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• Overall supervision of the UEFA administration, including the general
secretary and deputy general secretary, especially in terms of
observance of laws, the UEFA Statutes, regulations and orders;
approval of the annual business plan of the UEFA administration
• Compilation of a written report for presentation to the Ordinary UEFA
Congress
• Examination of the administration's report to the Ordinary UEFA
Congress.

3c. Insight of the present selection process to the UEFA with clean
reference to transfer window

• What is transfer window?

A transfer window is a designated period in which football clubs in a

country can recruit new players from other national leagues into their
team. While the term 'transfer window' is widely used, it is officially
referred to as a ' registration period ' by football's world governing
body, FIFA.
There are two registration periods, which are fixed by national
associations in accordance with their respective season calendars.
According to FIFA's regulations, the first period begins after the
conclusion of the season and usually ends before the new season gets
under way. This transfer window can run for no longer than 12 weeks.
The second registration period normally takes place in the middle of
the season and, unlike the first period, can remain open for just four
weeks, giving clubs less time to conduct business. In the majority of
the world's biggest leagues, due to the timing of their seasons, the
first period is generally known as the summer transfer window, while
the second period is known as the winter - or January - transfer
window. There are some exceptions, with Major League Soccer (MLS)
and some Nordic countries among those whose seasons generally
begin in spring rather than autumn.
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 • When the transfer window was first introduced?

Transfer windows had been in operation in various parts of the world

in different guises, but the principle was only formally adopted by
European football in 2002, when UEFA recommended harmonized
registration periods across the continent beginning from the season.
It can sometimes feel as though football exists in a bubble, separate
from everyday life, but the widespread introduction of the
harmonized transfer window concept in the game came about in
response to political pressure and a desire to meet international
trading standards.

• What are the player registration restrictions and how they are
determined?

The Club Financial Control Body felt that it was imperative that clubs
face sporting restrictions as well as financial measures because of
non-compliance with the break-even requirement. The restriction on
the number of players to be registered on the A list serves the dual
purpose of limiting the on-field benefits arising from non-compliance
while also assisting in achieving the overall objectives of the break-
even requirement. The A list restriction is further supported by the
restriction on the number of new registrations that clubs can add to
the A list and on limits on their net transfer spend.

• What is transfer ban in football?

Transfer Ban, as the name suggests, is a ban/restriction imposed by

the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) in order to prevent a football
(Club) team from signing any new players, or in some cases, in a
particular age range. Teams can sign players, but they cannot unveil
their new signings. Some clubs loan out their new signings to give
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 them some playing time. A transfer ban is mostly imposed when a
club signs an under-age player or when they don’t follow the transfer
norms imposed by the authority. In recent times, transfer ban has
been imposed upon many clubs.

3d. Auction system and how they function

Auction is basically bidding of players. Usually in football clubs select

players on their own and sign players for a particular amount and
span of time. But during auction all teams will get equal preference
over a player. It will totally depend on a team’s purse whether they
want to go for that player or not.

3e. Some basic rules and procedure

Who can be on List A?

A maximum of 25 players, two of whom should be goalkeepers. There is
a minimum of eight places reserved exclusively for locally trained
players. If a club have fewer than eight locally trained players in their
squad, then the maximum number of players on List A is reduced
accordingly.
What's a 'locally trained player'?
There are two categories:
1. Club-trained players – players who were on a club for three years
between the ages of 15 and 21;
2. Association-trained players – players who were in another club's in
the same association for three years between the ages of 15 and 21. No
club can have more than four association-trained players among their
eight nominees on List A.
What is List B, then?
A player may be registered on List B if he is born on, or after, 1 January
1995 and has been eligible to play for the club concerned for any
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uninterrupted period of two years since his 15th birthday (players aged
16 may be registered if they have been registered with the club for the
previous two years). Clubs are entitled to register an unlimited number
of players on List B during the season, but the list must be submitted by
no later than 24:00CET the day before a match.
Can clubs change their squads again this season?
Yes ... if they get through to the knockout stage. Ahead of the round of
16, by midnight on 1 February, clubs can register a maximum of three
new players. The overall limit of 25 players on List A remains, though.
Any limitations on who is added?
Players may have played in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League
or UEFA Europa League, but only one of them can have played in the
UEFA Europa League group stage. Players cannot represent two clubs in
the UEFA Champions League from the group stage onwards.

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 QARAMA (Questions a resolution must answer)
Delegates are requested to go through the QARMA and plan their
research. If you are answering all the questions in the QARMA then
your research can be considered completed.

• Why do we need the auction system?

• What are the problems in present selection process?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the auction
system?
• How will the auction system affect the clubs/teams?
• How the auction system affects the economy?
• How will the present players be affected by this auction system?
• Will the auction system be efficient?
• When and how will you conduct this auction system?
• What is pioneering role of this committee in introducing this
auction system?

For any further queries please feel free to contact the chair:
abishekas2001@gmail.com

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