The establishment of the FIFA Clearing House (FCH) is a key element of the transfer system reform package adopted by the FIFA Council in 2018 to promote and protect the integrity of professional football.

The FCH is a payment institution established in France that acts as an intermediary in payments relating to training rewards (solidarity mechanism and training compensation) deriving from articles 20 and 21 and Annexes 4 and 5 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP). The FCH ensures that payments by new clubs are correctly distributed to training clubs. The payments are based on the final electronic player passport (EPP) and allocation statement approved by the FIFA administration.

The rights and obligations of the FCH and clubs are included in the FIFA Clearing House Regulations and the Terms and Conditions. The FCH does not charge any fees for the provision of these payment services. While providing these payment services, the FCH is compliant with national and international financial and non-financial regulations, including the applicable anti-money laundering and sanction laws.

FCH distributes all training rewards related to first registration as a professional and international and domestic transfer. In articles 5 until 7 of the FIFA Clearing House Regulations all cases are mentioned.

Depending on the contact information available, the FCH will contact:

Please add “@fifaclearinghouse.org” to the safe-sender list on your email platform to ensure that you receive all emails from the FCH and that they are not filtered into spam or junk folders.

Your club will only receive a link for the onboarding process once it is established by FIFA TMS (EPP process) that your club will have to pay or receive solidarity contribution or training compensation. You will receive this link by email with all the information you need to initiate your onboarding process with FCH.

Until then nothing is required for your club.

In the following cases an error may occur when trying to connect to the system: 

We would be grateful if your club could try once again to connect to the system with the following step by step approach: 

FCH has not planned such session. Therefore, FCH issued a document providing clubs with an overview & guidelines for the onboarding process and the processing of payments (downloadable on the website). However, please note that whenever FCH sends a club the email with the link for the onboarding process, FCH will also provide you with the necessary information you need to know for each step.

Each time you club shall pay or receive training compensation and/or solidarity contribution, your club will have to go through the onboarding process and pass the Compliance Assessment.

The legal representative depends on the legal form of the entity. In general, these are the person(s) legally appointed to represent the Club, or the person(s) duly empowered to make decisions for the entity. For a limited liability company, it is usually the President or CEO or the most important stakeholders in the management board depending on your governance body. For associations, it refers to the main decision makers (usually chairman of the board and treasurer), in this case the club will be asked to disclose two legal representatives.

‘Individual shareholders’, in this section, are the beneficiaries or the Ultimate Beneficial Owner ("UBOs"). The beneficiaries are the natural persons that receive benefits from your entity and/or hold the ultimate decision-making power in your entity. Under European legislation, it refers to the natural person who ultimately owns or controls (directly or indirectly) at least 10% of the shares OR voting rights of a legal entity (the club in question). In case your club does not have any, but the parent company of the club has one or more, please include these individual shareholders.

The FIFA Clearing House (FCH) is a payment institution licensed in France and regulated by the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, 'ACPR'). The authorization from the ACPR enables the FCH to collect and process payments on behalf of clubs, in accordance with European and international financial regulations. To perform transactions on behalf of clubs, the FCH must conduct due diligence on its clients, following international legislation and AML-CTF regulations in France. This regulatory requirement is fulfilled by requesting and assessing information and documents from its clients, such as information on corporate structure, legal representatives, or beneficiaries.

Once the EPP process is finalized in TMS, FIFA issues an allocation statement to the FIFA Clearing House (FCH). Clubs will then receive an email from the FCH with a link to access the Onboarding platform where they will have to accept or reject the Terms & Conditions.

After accepting the Terms & Conditions, clubs will receive an email with a link to the Onboarding platform to provide the information about the club via a Club Information Form.

 (After your club has filled in the Club Information Form, FCH will first do a check before requesting the required documents.)

Your club will receive an email with a link to the Onboarding platform to submit all required documents.

After your club has filled in the Club Information Form FCH will do a first check before requesting the required documents. This may take few days or weeks depending on the case.

As mentioned in the communication to clubs, when FCH requests certain documents, your club will receive another email with a link to the platform where you can attach all documents. This link will be valid for seven days. After this period your club will receive an automated reminder with another link that is valid for seven days.

As part of FIFA Clearing House requirements, clubs will be asked to provide documentation in one of the 3 FIFA official languages (English, French and Spanish). If a translation is needed, FIFA Clearing House expects to receive the translation of the full document.

FCH aims for a document which proves the club as a legal entity is duly registered in your respective country. This document shall include the following information: company name, registration number, address, legal form…). This document shall be certified by a reliable third party such as a solicitor, a notary or an embassy and translated in one of the three FIFA languages (English, French or Spanish).

The company organizational chart is a visual representation of the structure of your group companies. This chart is valuable in that it shows the ownership relationships between legal entities in the corporate family. It provides information on the links and networks that exist between your company, subsidiaries, parental company and any other group of companies. It also outlines information on the reporting structures that exist. Please provide us such an overview WITH the amount of shares owned by any parental company and individual shareholder.

The management organizational chart is a visual representation of the management structure of a company. It is a picture of managers and staff within a single company and illustrates the reporting relationships among individuals. Please provide us with this overview of the club. In case there is any kind of advisory board or assembly with people not functioning in the day-to-day functioning of the company but, for example appointing the CEO, please give us an overview of this structure.

Please provide the above documents in one of the three official FIFA languages.

This means that FCH is investigating the information and documentation received. When FCH has evaluated the information and documentation provided by the club, the Compliance Assessment will come to an end. The FCH will take a decision on whether the club passes or fails the Compliance Assessment and subsequently, whether to provide their services to the club or not. Clubs will receive this decision via email.

If the club passes the Compliance Assessment, they will be able to use the services of the FCH and receive or send funds:

the New Club will receive a Payment Notification from the FCH with the amounts to be paid, as well as in which currency and to what account.

Once the FCH receives the amount from the New Club in the indicated currency, it will distribute it to the Training Clubs and will send a Distribution Statement indicating the amount they should receive.

If the club fails the Compliance Assessment, the case will be escalated to the FIFA Administration for non-compliance with the FIFA Clearing House Regulations. The next steps are described in the regulations (for more information please visit the following webpagelegal.fifa.com).

Once the payment has been received from the New Club, it should be paid to the Training Clubs within 5 business days. Additionally, a Distribution Statement will be sent to the Training Clubs, including details of the trigger event, amount, and currency of the payment, among others.

For every new Allocation Statement your club will have to accept the Terms and Conditions as you did earlier today and to fill out the Club Information Form. Your club will only be asked once every three months to submit the documents.

When a transfer is paid in more than one installment there will be an Allocation Statement for every single installment. Because of this it looks like your club received the exact same allocation statement but that is not the case.

For any information not covered in this FAQ or in the club guidelines accessible on the FCH website, please contact info@fifaclearinghouse.org