SPORTS LAW

Law firm specializing in legal services for athletes....

OFFER

TRAINERS

Among my Clients are polish and foreign trainers like: Ryszard Tarasiewicz, Marcin Brosz,
Radosław Mroczkowski, Ben van Dael, Dominik Nowak, Stanislav Levy and many others.
We provide legal assistance to the trainers especially on following fields: legal analyse of
trainers contract, legal assistance by conclusion and dissolution of trainers contract, running
cases in front of juridical bodies of Polish Football Federation and FIFA, assistance by debts
recovery, agents assistance.

PLAYERS

Players are the biggest group among our Clients. We offer a comprehensive legal assistance
and agents assistance of professional football players. We provide legal assistance to the
players especially on the following fields: legal assistance at the conclusion of the contract,
contract negotiations, legal analyse of binding contracts, disciplinary matters, recovery of
debts, running cases in front of juridical bodies of Polish Football Federation, FIFA and CAS,
legal assistance of transfers, antidoping matters.

CLUBS

We offer the legal assistance to the football clubs in the area of football law: analyse of the
binding football contracts, ongoing legal assistance, creating the data base of documents
(contract of players, trainers etc.), running cases in front of juridical bodies of Polish Football
Federation, FIFA and CAS.

Agents

Top polish football agents were among our Clients in recent years. We offer legal assistance
on following fields: legal counselling concerning the players contract and commission
contracts, running negotiations with foreign clubs in german and English.

ABOUT ME

I am active in football law as a practising solicitor since 2007. During the years of practise I
ran cases in front of the juridical bodies of Polish Football Association and Ekstraklasa S.A. I
also represented the Clients in front of FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (FIFA DRC) and
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. My Clients are: football players, trainers,
agents and football clubs.

I was involved as a lawyer in transfers of former and current national team players to the
European top football leagues : Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Championship, Russian league, Greek
League, Turkish League, Slovak League.

Since 2010 I work also as licensed football agent and work active on the transfer market.
In years 2017 – 2019 I was Deputy Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Polish Football
Association. I was also a guest lecturer on the trainer courses UEFA Pro in Trainers School in
Biała Podlaska.

During years of practice I had a chance to run cases of Clients participating on every level of
football competitions from lower leagues to Champions League. This experience allows me
for individual approach and understanding of needs of each Client.

I offer legal assistance in English and German.

I am amateur tennis player. I participate in tournaments for lawyers. Achievements: 1 st place
in age category under 45 in the tournament of TEMIDA 2013, 2 nd place in the National
Championship of Solicitors in Bydgoszcz in 2015, 3 rd place in doubles in the National
Championship of Lawyers in Katowice in 2005

Experience

2001 – master thesis at the Law Faculty of University of Wrocław pt. Economic activity of
amateur and professional sport clubs

2007 – admitted as solicitor at the District Bar Association in Wrocław

2010 – football agent licensed by the Polish Football Association

Activity in Polish Football Association:

2008 – 2010 – member of Appeal Committee of Lower Silesian Football Association
2014 – member of working group in Polish Football Association which created new
resolution concerning the relationships between trainers and clubs
2016 – 2018 Chairman of Football Court of Arbitration of Lower Silesian Football
Association
2017 – 2019 Deputy Chairman of Legal Committee of Polish Football Association

Selected cases:

2007 – 2008 – providing legal services for WKS Śląsk Wrocław FC
2010 – 2014 – handling a case Ryszard Tarasiewicz vs. WKS Śląsk Wrocław FC
Actions undertaken in this case:
– conducting negotiations with the Club
– conducting proceedings before the Training Department of the Polish Football Association
(PZPN) concerning termination of a contract due to the fault of the Club
– handling a case for payment before the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN, before a
three and five-person adjudicating panel of the Court
– handling a case before the Regional Court in Wrocław concerning appending an
enforceability clause to a decision of the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN
– conducting enforcement proceedings based on the enforceable title – decision of the
Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN with an enforceability clause
– conducting disciplinary proceedings before the Disciplinary Committee of the PZPN
concerning a failure to enforce a valid decision of the Football Court of Arbitration of the
PZPN

– representing the Client in a case brought by WKS Śląsk Wrocław FC to overrule the
decision of the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN in the first instance before the
Regional Court in Wrocław and in the second instance before the Appellate Court in Wrocław
2011 – representing football manager Dominik Nowak in a case against KS Górnik
Polkowice FC
Actions undertaken in this case:
– conducting proceedings before the Training Department of the PZPN concerning the
termination of a contract due to the fault of the Club
– bringing an action with the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN
– reaching a settlement with the Club
2011 – providing legal services with regard to the transfer of polish national player to Turkish
league, representing the player and his manager
2012 – providing legal services with regard to the transfer of polish national team player to
Russian league, representing the player and his manager
2012 – providing legal services with regard to the transfer of polish national team player to
Russian league, representing the player and his manager
2012 – representing a national team player from an Ekstraklasa club before the Football Court
of Arbitration of the PZPN in a case brought by a players’ manager
2013 – representing LKS Drzewiarz Jasienica FC in proceedings before the Chamber for
Sports Dispute Resolution (IRSS) in a case concerning the annulment of a player’s contract
2014 – providing legal services with regard to the transfer of polish national team player to
Ligue 1, representing the player and his manager
2014 – providing legal services with regard to the transfer of polish national team player to
Russian league, representing the player and his manager
2014 – providing legal services with regard to the termination of a contract between football
manager Stanislav Levý and WKS Śląsk Wrocław FC
2014 – on behalf of the Client, i.e. Kolejarz Stróże FC, handling the process of merging
Kolejarz Stróże FC with Limanovia Limanowa FC, pursuant to a Resolution on membership
of the Management Board of the PZPN no. V/37 of 29.09.2000
2014 – providing legal services with regard to the termination of a contract between football
manager Marcin Brosz and Piast Gliwice FC
2014 – 2016 – representing a national football team player before the Football Court of
Arbitration of the PZPN in a case brought by a players’ manager

2014 – 2016 – terminating a contract of a player with a club from the Russian Premier League,
conducting a case concerning compensation for contract termination before FIFA’s DRC
2012 –2014 – representing a player in a case for payment against an Ekstraklasa club
Actions undertaken in this case:
– handling a case for payment before the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN
– handling a case concerning appending an enforceability clause to a decision of the Football
Court of Arbitration of the PZPN
– handling a case in enforcement proceedings based on the enforceable title – decision of the
Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN with an enforceability clause
2013 – representing a player in a dispute with an Ekstraklasa club which engaged in activities
aiming at forcing the player to terminate the contract with the club
Actions undertaken in this case:
– handling the case before the IRSS
– reaching a settlement
2015 – handling the transformation of second league club from an association into a limited
liability company
2015 – 2016 – providing legal services for Radomiak Radom FC
2016 – on behalf of a second league club, handling a case before the Court of Arbitration for
Sport in Lausanne (CAS)
2014 – 2018 – handling a case Sebino Plaku vs. WKS Śląsk Wrocław FC
Actions undertaken in this case:
– lodging a motion with the IRSS to terminate the contract due to the fault of the Club and
representing the player in the entire proceedings before the IRSS
– handling cases in disciplinary proceedings before the League Committee and the Supreme
Appeal Board
– handling a case before the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN
– lodging an appeal with the CAS against the decision of the IRSS
– participating in the hearing of the CAS and winning a decision repealing the decision of the
IRSS
– handling a case for compensation for the contract being terminated due to the fault of the
Club before the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN and winning the requested
compensation
2014 – 2016 – handling a case in disciplinary proceedings against Ruch Chorzów FC
concerning a failure to enforce a decision of the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN

2016 – providing legal services for the transfer of polish national team player to Ligue 1,
representing the player and his manager
2016 – providing legal services for the transfer of polish national team player to Chamionship,
representing the player and his manager
2016 – 2017 – handling a case of player Mateusz Piątkowski against Apoel Nicosia FC
concerning the player being forced to attend individual training sessions
2017 – 2018 – handling a case brought by football manager Radoslav Látal against Piast
Gliwice FC concerning a motion to deem the termination of a football manager’s contract
invalid
2017 – handling a dispute between TS Podbeskidzie FC and football manager Jan Kocian
(representing the club)
2017 – 2018 – handling a dispute between TS Podbeskidzie FC and a former player before
FIFA’s DRC
2017 – 2018 – representing player before the Polish Football Association DRC in a dispute with
first league club concerning an appeal against a decision to terminate the contract due to the
fault of the player
2018 – handling a case brought by a football manager in a dispute with a I liga club
concerning compensation for premature contract termination
2019 – handling a dispute between TS Podbeskidzie FC and a former player before the CAS
in a case concerning an appeal against termination of a contract without adjudicating fault
2019 – representing player before the CAS in a case concerning an appeal against the decision
of the IRSS
2019 – representing a Slovak football agent before the CAS in a case for payment against a
Bulgarian football club
2019 – representing second league before the Football Court of Arbitration of the PZPN in a
case for payment brought by a player

Law Office Marcin Kwiecień

Law Office of Advocate Marcin Kwiecień

18/6 Wroclawska St., 55 – 095 Długołęka

phone: 601 694 475

e-mail: kwiecien@adwokat-kwiecien.pl