Daniel Schmidt
The effects of the Bosman-case on the professional football leagues with special regard to the top-five leagues
Bachelor Thesis for the discipline European Studies, University of Twente, 2007
1. Introduction
2. EU Sport politics and Sport Law
2.1 Council of Ministers and Sport
2.2 The ECJ
2.3 Walrave and Koch
2.4 The Dona Case
2.5 The legal situation for sport before the Bosman case
3. The Bosman Case
3.1 Transfer rules before Bosman
3.2 Jean-Marc Bosman
3.3 The basic of the judgement
3.4 Reactions of officials
3.5 Ideas and outlooks of scholars for the future after the judgement
3.6 Immediate results of the Bosman case
4. Cases after Bosman
4.1 The Lehtonen Case
4.2 Kolpak Case
4.3 Simutenkov Case
4.4 Summing up of the cases after Bosman
4.5 Politics and Sport after Bosman
5. Implementation of the Bosman Case
5.1 Direct Implementation after the ruling
5.2 The slow process of adjusting the teams
5.3 Harry van der Meer and the DEL (example 2)
5.4 Gentleman Agreements in Law
5.5 Summary of the first reactions
6. Changed relations between clubs and players
6.1 Player salaries before Bosman
6.2 Player salaries after Bosman
6.3 Financial Problems in different leagues
6.4 Movement of players
6.5 Problems of the free movement of players
6.6 Transfer development
6.7 New transfer system after 2001
6.8 Rules restricting the free movement
7. Competitive balance in football
7.1 Methodology
7.2.1 Competition situation before Bosman on European level
7.2.2 European competition after Bosman
7.3.1 Situation of national leagues before Bosman
7.3.2 Situation of national leagues after Bosman
7.4 Other statistical measures of imbalance in football leagues
7.5 Conclusion of the competitive balance section
8. Financial development of football clubs in Europe
8.1 The change in economic revenues of the clubs
8.2 The 20 richest clubs in Europe and their heritage
8.3 TV revenues and the share of the clubs
9. Conclusion
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