The Contract of Professional Sports in the Iraqi Legal System

Sports professionalism contract is a time contract, it is a contract with a limited duration in nature, and generally ends with its termination, unless the two parties agree to otherwise or one of them violates the condition of the period, and therefore bears the responsibility for breaching it by carrying out its commitment or compensation to the other party, or that it bears the agreed penal condition In the contract, and the contract for sports professionalism is a relatively recent contract and has its characteristics that distinguish it from other contracts, in addition to its compliance with the general provisions of the contract in the civil law, and the Iraqi legislator has covered it in regulation in the Sports Professionalism Law No. )60(of 2017, and the correct opinion goes into jurisprudence The law indicates that he is p D work, and accordingly the rules governing the work contract apply to him, as well as the provisions contained in the sports regulations, and arranges corresponding obligations on both sides (the professional athlete and the contracting institution). The professional athlete provides his services and expertise to the contracting club whose main obligation is before the professional athlete to pay the agreed fee in The contract, and the personal consideration of the professional athlete plays an important role in this contract