Associations and Sports clubs in the light of community and international legislation: brief notes on the verification of the compatibility of the system with the sports antitrust rules and the protection of competition

The article discusses the problem of the monolithic governance structures of sport. The purpose of the author is to suggest an alternative approach based on a "free market" of sport. The European sports system and the antitrust laws and the judi-cial system in the United States and the protection of competition are discussed.