Law in Practice — After Seraing and the Dublin Seat, Jurisdiction Is the First Battleground in Sports Arbitration
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Who decides who decides? CAS jurisdiction after Seraing and the Dublin seat
In RFC Seraing v FIFA (C-600/23, 1 August 2025), the CJEU held that arbitration imposed by sporting rules must stay open to effective judicial review on questions of EU law, something a non-EU court cannot fully provide. UEFA has since amended its Statutes, effective 1 July 2026, to name Dublin as a possible CAS seat, which would place annulment proceedings before the Irish High Court rather than the Swiss Federal Tribunal. For counsel advising clubs, federations, players or agents, the threshold questions of whether CAS has jurisdiction, how the arbitration clause reads and where the seat sits now carry real strategic weight.
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