Professional Footballers Australia

Professional Footballers Australia Association ( PFA) ( German: Australian professional football players union ) is a trade union in professional football for women, men and juniors. This union serves its members nationally and internationally and accepts paid footballer in the Australian A-League (after the current sponsor now Hyundai A-League named), National Youth League players and Australia's elite amateurs on. The PFA provides a number of awards, the PFA Awards annually.

History

The PFA was founded in April 1993 and 1994, it was registered by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission as a national union. Thus, the then Australian transfer system was abolished and the PFA developed a contractual framework, Professional salaries in an oversized span and protection against dismissal in professional football.

The PFA is since 1994 member of the largest trade union federation in Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and in the above national football union, the Fédération Internationale des Associations Professional Footballers ( FIFPro ), in the Asia / Oceania division. Board member of FIFPro Asia is Brendan Schwab, the CEO of PFA.

Career Planning

The PFA determined for its members a promising career and thereby assumes that the football career of professionals is short-lived, revocable and characterized by frequent transfers. 2008 1.109 soccer players outside the A-League were registered.

2007, there was a broad partnership of PFA and the Football Federation Australia ( FFA) in a Memorandum of Understanding. In this memorandum stipulates that the FFA as competent football organization the PFA recognizes as the exclusive contractor for the Australian professional football and that contact both organization against racism, drugs, illegal betting, corruption and doping.

The football union supports its members in litigation, so it came in 2009 to 22 clashes of professional football players with their agents or agencies in 22 cases. The PFA has a training program My Football Career launched that can prove the soccer player of the Australian national team, the A-League, National Youth League players and Australia's elite amateurs.

Regulate

The PFA has consistently lobbied on rules in the Australian Football League, as players can now fight it when they receive unjustified " Yellow " or " Red cards ''. , It also captures the injuries of the players and assigns them in statistics by clubs from.