From Redistribution Rule to Payment Infrastructure: FIFA Training Rewards after the FIFA Clearing House - EPP/TMS Data Governance, Evidentiary Burdens, and Procedural Fairness before the FIFA Football Tribunal and CAS

This thesis analyses how the FIFA Clearing House has transformed training rewards from a claim-driven redistribution mechanism into a centralised payment infrastructure based on EPP and TMS data. It examines how training compensation and solidarity payments are now identified, calculated and distributed through a data-driven workflow, while highlighting the risks that inaccurate or incomplete registration data may create for training clubs, particularly smaller clubs with limited resources. The thesis focuses on data governance, evidentiary burdens, standards of proof, procedural fairness and the ability of clubs to challenge EPP-based determinations before FIFA and CAS.

It concludes that the FIFA Clearing House is a valuable and necessary reform, but that its effectiveness depends on stronger transparency, clearer correction mechanisms, fairer allocation of evidentiary burdens, and procedural safeguards that allow clubs to understand, verify and contest the data on which their financial rights depend.