The Legal Nature of the Iraqi Center for Sports Settlement and Arbitration

In the 1980s, the field of sport witnessed a remarkable development in sports' legal relations, as the latter were not limited to competition in games, but had shown them a significant place in national and international trade. This has led to the complexity of those relationships that led to the emergence of sporting disputes, which, like any other disputes, require a judicial or administrative authority to adjudicate upon them when they occur between clubs and players, as the power-bearer State was initially required to consider and settle such disputes but in a manner that does not meet the expectations of the parties, his solutions were unsatisfactory to athletes and sports institutions, because the ordinary judiciary did not know the specificities of sports relationships. This has led to an attempt to seek another alternative to the state's judiciary whose task is to settle sports disputes in a way that safeguards the expectations of the parties and ensures legal security, such as sports settlement and arbitration centers.