What you should know
We strongly advise players to join their local player association
Your local association can assist you with making a claim. They can also give you important advice about your contract before you sign with a club.
Most complaints by players are about unpaid wages
Our survey of 14,000 players in 2016 found that 41 percent of players had been paid late in the previous two seasons - and in one country this was as high as 95 percent. We also found more than 700 players (six percent) had been isolated from the rest of the squad, a tactic used to make players rescind their contract.
Players have a legal justification to leave a club
From 1 June 2018, FIFA agreed to change rules so that players have a legal justification to leave a club if they give 15 days' notice after not being paid for two straight months. Clubs can also no longer write so-called 'grace periods'' into contracts which allow them to pay player wages late, and players can start legal proceedings with a view to leaving a club which is behaving in an abusive way towards them.
