ARBITRATION IN SPORTS DISPUTES

Dr. Enas Al-Zahrani

Abstract The research discussed the most important rules that distinguish arbitration in sports disputes from arbitration in other disputes in general. This is done through an analytical and critical presentation of the arbitration rules of the Saudi Sports Arbitration Center and its comparison with the Saudi arbitration system, which represents the general rules of arbitration in the Kingdom, as well as an explanation of the extent of application of sports arbitration rules and whether it is compatible or different in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the rules of the Sports Arbitration Commission. Through the research, we concluded several results, then recommendations, the most important of which was the necessity of issuing an adequate and clear legal document that grants the Saudi Sports Arbitration Center the inherent and exclusive jurisdiction to consider sports disputes in the Kingdom, given the inadequacy of the current document and the speed of issuing the special regulations referred to in the fourth paragraph of the article. Article No. (24) of the Centre’s statute, and the urgent need to amend the Centre’s statute and procedural rules, so as to remove from its texts repetition, ambiguity, ambiguity and unjustified exaggeration in a certain number of provisions it contains, then calling on the Saudi Sports Arbitration Center to establish an insurance system that guarantees coverage. Damages resulting from arbitrator and center errors.