Case fileFiled 2003-11-16—2005-11-19

Barcelona formation

La Masia registration, first-team emergence and early honours.

How did Messi come to hold a valid Spanish playing licence at Barcelona, and was that licence properly contested?

Sources
6 sources
Claims
0 claims
Unresolved issues
1 unresolved

This case file covers Messi's rise through La Masia, his debut sequence for Barcelona and Argentina, and the 2005–06 dispute over the validity of his Spanish playing licence — a dispute resolved through the ordinary channels of Spanish sports administration rather than any finding against him or the club.

What is established

The competitive milestones are locked: the La Masia progression, a friendly debut against Porto on 16 November 2003, a La Liga debut on 16 October 2004 against Espanyol, a first senior goal on 1 May 2005 against Albacete, and the 2005 award as Golden Boy — the first non-European winner. The licence dispute itself is documented as a chain of distinct institutional acts: the RFEF's Competition Committee ruled on 18 October 2005 that Messi could play as a Spanish player, the RFEF's board affirmed the licence on 11 November, the LFP's delegate commission sought its nullity on 14 November citing the absence of the league's mandatory visado, the matter went to the CSD on a competence conflict, and around March 2006 the CEDD resolved it: Barcelona was not sanctioned, and responsibility was assigned to the RFEF as the licence-issuer. Phase 1 rates this the one genuinely multi-source item in its material, because four separate bodies each issued their own act.

What the record establishes

  • The correction addendum retains this entry as confirmed fact on contemporaneous evidence. Phase 1's lock table records it as locked.
  • The Wikipedia-removal audit upgrades part of this entry off Wikipedia and onto a contemporaneous source: the EUR 150m rescission clause, the EUR 3m-per-year terms and the professional contract of 16 September 2005 are corroborated by the contemporaneous iusport archive (Latorre, citing FC Barcelona's own web announcement of 28 June 2005). The earlier dates of 4 February 2004 and 24 June 2005 remain single-source. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as strong but awaiting a primary document; the original 2001 FC Barcelona contract and announcement text were not retrieved.
  • The correction addendum retains this entry as confirmed fact on contemporaneous evidence: the debut came against Espanyol, with Messi coming on for Deco in the 82nd minute. Phase 1's lock table records it as locked.
  • UEFA.com records: "Messi made his first Champions League appearance against Shakhtar on 7 December 2004; his first goal in the competition came against Panathinaikos on 2 November 2005." The debut was away to Shakhtar Donetsk, a 0-2 defeat, wearing number 30 and aged 17. The first Champions League goal came against Panathinaikos at Camp Nou in a 5-0 win, in the 34th minute; it was his first UEFA goal after four goalless European outings. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Argentina finished third at the 2005 South American U-20 Championship in Colombia, behind champions Colombia and Brazil, and qualified for the World Youth Championship through one of four CONMEBOL berths. Messi was used mainly as a substitute, in a reported six of nine games, owing to stamina limitations, and reportedly scored five goals. Both Argentina-Colombia meetings ended 1-1. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Argentina won a record fifth World Youth Championship title in the Netherlands. After losing the opening match 0-1 to the United States, with Messi benched, he scored against Egypt (2-0), in the round of 16 against Colombia (2-1), in the quarter-final against Spain (3-1) and in the semi-final against Brazil (2-1). FIFA.com records that he "scored a tournament-high six goals - including both in the 2-1 final win over Nigeria - to win the adidas Golden Boot and the adidas Golden Ball." Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Messi took the adidas Golden Ball as best player and the adidas Golden Shoe/Boot as top scorer with six goals. John Obi Mikel took the Silver Ball and Taye Taiwo the Bronze. Recorded as confirmed fact and an official finding of FIFA. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • In the final at the Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1. Messi scored both goals, both from penalties: in the 40th minute, from a penalty won after he was fouled by Dele Adeleye, and in the 75th minute, from a penalty won after Aguero was fouled by Monday James. Chinedu Obasi headed Nigeria's reply in the 53rd minute. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Messi made his senior Argentina debut in a friendly against Hungary at the Ferenc Puskas stadium in Budapest, won 2-1. He came on for Lisandro Lopez in the 63rd minute and was sent off by referee Markus Merk of Germany. FIFA.com states the elapsed time precisely: "the 18-year-old entered the fray in place of Lisandro Lopez in the 63rd minute. Just 47 seconds later, he received the ball and spun away from Vilmos Vanczak, who grabbed a handful of shirt... Messi, though, retaliated with a stray elbow which saw him receive his marching orders." The Guardian and the BBC also use "47 seconds". Assistant coach Tocalli said the replay showed Messi "ni lo toco". No appeal succeeded and the red card was not rescinded; no record of rescission was found. Vanczak said in 2025 that Messi "was not aggressive". Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Messi started and played the full 90 minutes of the 2006 World Cup qualifier against Peru at the Estadio Monumental, won 2-0. A foul on him produced the penalty converted by Riquelme, which also resulted in the dismissal of the Peru goalkeeper Leao Butron; the second goal was a Guadalupe own goal. He had featured earlier in the qualifying campaign as a substitute against Paraguay. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.
  • Created by the Phase 1 split of the nationality and licence entry and recorded as confirmed fact resting on official findings. The chronology is: RFEF Comite de Competicion, 18 October 2005 (Messi may play as Spanish); RFEF Junta Directiva, 11 November 2005 (licence valid); LFP Comision Delegada, 14 November 2005 (requested nullity, citing the absence of the LFP's preceptive visado); a CSD competence-conflict referral; and the CEDD outcome around March 2006, in which FC Barcelona was not sanctioned and responsibility was assigned to the RFEF as licence-issuer. The independent-confirmation audit rates this the only genuinely multi-source item in the phase, because the RFEF, LFP, CSD and CEDD each issued distinct institutional acts. The verbatim decision documents were not independently retrieved; the chronology is held through the contemporaneous iusport.es narrative.
  • Messi started his first Clasico on 19 November 2005 at the Bernabeu, which Barcelona won 3-0 and at which Ronaldinho received a Bernabeu ovation. In the Champions League round of 16 against Chelsea, Barcelona won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on 22 February 2006, with Asier del Horno sent off in the 39th minute after a challenge on Messi; UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body reclassified the offence as "rough play" and imposed a one-match ban. In the return at Camp Nou on 7 March 2006, which finished 1-1, Messi went off after roughly 24 to 25 minutes with a right-thigh or hamstring tear, described by UEFA as a "muscle injury" of about four weeks. The injury ruled him out of the rest of the season, including the 2006 Champions League final in Paris on 17 May 2006, which Barcelona won 2-1 against Arsenal; Messi later said he regretted not celebrating. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

What is alleged or disputed

The live disagreement in the record is procedural and institutional: the LFP contended the licence was void for want of its preceptive visado, while the RFEF had issued and upheld it. That is a real conflict between governing bodies over process, ultimately resolved by the CEDD in the club's favour. A separate, minor documentary conflict concerns the dating of Messi's 2006 boot switch from Nike to adidas, which the record preserves rather than forces.

No allegation or disputed claim is recorded against this case file's events.

What is not supported

The framing that Messi's own registration violated Article 19 of FIFA's transfer regulations is not supported: Article 19 took effect through FIFA Circular 769 on 24 August 2001, after his 2000–01 arrival, so its application to his registration is at most an analytical inference about a rule that postdated him. The distinct 2014 FC Barcelona sanction under Article 19 concerned other minors, not Messi's own registration — a distinction the record insists must not collapse. The verbatim decision PDFs of the licence case were never retrieved; the chronology rests on contemporaneous reporting, and is presented as such.

No claim tied to this case file's events was classified unsupported or false (§11.1) — the classification system, not this section, is the record of what has and has not cleared the evidence bar for this case.

Chronology

  1. RecORIGIN-017Exact dateBarcelona formation

    First-team friendly debut for FC Barcelona against Porto, 16 November 2003

    The correction addendum retains this entry as confirmed fact on contemporaneous evidence. Phase 1's lock table records it as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact

    Original base-entry text unavailable; this record is reconstructed only from surviving correction and synthesis material.

    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    FC Barcelona

    Why it matters

    Marks the start of Messi's first-team involvement at FC Barcelona and the opening of the phase's best-documented sequence.

  2. RecORIGIN-020Approximate dateBarcelona formation

    Contract progression to the professional contract of 16 September 2005, including the EUR 150m rescission clause

    The Wikipedia-removal audit upgrades part of this entry off Wikipedia and onto a contemporaneous source: the EUR 150m rescission clause, the EUR 3m-per-year terms and the professional contract of 16 September 2005 are corroborated by the contemporaneous iusport archive (Latorre, citing FC Barcelona's own web announcement of 28 June 2005). The earlier dates of 4 February 2004 and 24 June 2005 remain single-source. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as strong but awaiting a primary document; the original 2001 FC Barcelona contract and announcement text were not retrieved.

    Classification: Confirmed factStatus: CorrectedStatus: Reported — single source

    Original base-entry text unavailable; this record is reconstructed only from surviving correction and synthesis material.

    Organisations
    FC Barcelona

    Why it matters

    Shows a correction working in both directions: part of the entry was rescued from Wikipedia onto a contemporaneous source, while the remainder stayed single-source rather than being levelled up with it.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  3. RecORIGIN-018Exact dateBarcelona formation

    La Liga debut against Espanyol, 16 October 2004, replacing Deco in the 82nd minute

    The correction addendum retains this entry as confirmed fact on contemporaneous evidence: the debut came against Espanyol, with Messi coming on for Deco in the 82nd minute. Phase 1's lock table records it as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact

    Original base-entry text unavailable; this record is reconstructed only from surviving correction and synthesis material.

    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    La Liga / LFP

    Why it matters

    The date is the reference point for the medical-regulatory analysis: it is the moment Messi entered senior regulated competition, and the retrieved record places the conclusion of his childhood somatropin therapy before it.

  4. RecORIGIN-040Exact dateBarcelona formation

    Champions League debut, 7 December 2004, and first Champions League goal, 2 November 2005

    UEFA.com records: "Messi made his first Champions League appearance against Shakhtar on 7 December 2004; his first goal in the competition came against Panathinaikos on 2 November 2005." The debut was away to Shakhtar Donetsk, a 0-2 defeat, wearing number 30 and aged 17. The first Champions League goal came against Panathinaikos at Camp Nou in a 5-0 win, in the 34th minute; it was his first UEFA goal after four goalless European outings. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    UEFA

    Why it matters

    Both dates come from the competition organiser's own record, making this one of the few origin-era entries carried by a governing-body source rather than by press repetition.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  5. RecORIGIN-034Exact dateBarcelona formation

    2005 South American U-20 Championship in Colombia: Argentina third and qualified for the World Youth Championship

    Argentina finished third at the 2005 South American U-20 Championship in Colombia, behind champions Colombia and Brazil, and qualified for the World Youth Championship through one of four CONMEBOL berths. Messi was used mainly as a substitute, in a reported six of nine games, owing to stamina limitations, and reportedly scored five goals. Both Argentina-Colombia meetings ended 1-1. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    CONMEBOL
    Location
    Colombia, Colombia

    Why it matters

    The tournament is where Messi's binding official-competition appearances for Argentina occurred, as distinct from the 2004 friendlies that are wrongly credited with that effect.

    Counterargument

    The exact goal count varies between accounts; five is the common figure.

  6. RecORIGIN-035Exact dateBarcelona formation

    2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands: Argentina's record fifth title

    Argentina won a record fifth World Youth Championship title in the Netherlands. After losing the opening match 0-1 to the United States, with Messi benched, he scored against Egypt (2-0), in the round of 16 against Colombia (2-1), in the quarter-final against Spain (3-1) and in the semi-final against Brazil (2-1). FIFA.com records that he "scored a tournament-high six goals - including both in the 2-1 final win over Nigeria - to win the adidas Golden Boot and the adidas Golden Ball." Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    adidas, FIFA
    Location
    Netherlands, Netherlands

    Why it matters

    The tournament that established Messi internationally, and the competition in which his official-competition appearances for Argentina were made.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  7. RecORIGIN-037Month knownBarcelona formation

    adidas Golden Ball and Golden Boot at the 2005 World Youth Championship

    Messi took the adidas Golden Ball as best player and the adidas Golden Shoe/Boot as top scorer with six goals. John Obi Mikel took the Silver Ball and Taye Taiwo the Bronze. Recorded as confirmed fact and an official finding of FIFA. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed factStatus: Official finding
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    adidas, FIFA

    Why it matters

    An official governing-body finding, and the point at which adidas first appears in the record as an award sponsor — a documented commercial overlap that is noted elsewhere in the project as an overlap and never as an act.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  8. RecORIGIN-036Exact dateBarcelona formation

    World Youth Championship final, 2 July 2005: Argentina 2-1 Nigeria, both Argentina goals scored by Messi from penalties

    In the final at the Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1. Messi scored both goals, both from penalties: in the 40th minute, from a penalty won after he was fouled by Dele Adeleye, and in the 75th minute, from a penalty won after Aguero was fouled by Monday James. Chinedu Obasi headed Nigeria's reply in the 53rd minute. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Location
    Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Why it matters

    The decisive match of the tournament, recorded at incident level so the penalty awards are visible rather than summarised.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  9. RecORIGIN-038Exact dateBarcelona formation

    Senior Argentina debut and red card against Hungary, 17 August 2005

    Messi made his senior Argentina debut in a friendly against Hungary at the Ferenc Puskas stadium in Budapest, won 2-1. He came on for Lisandro Lopez in the 63rd minute and was sent off by referee Markus Merk of Germany. FIFA.com states the elapsed time precisely: "the 18-year-old entered the fray in place of Lisandro Lopez in the 63rd minute. Just 47 seconds later, he received the ball and spun away from Vilmos Vanczak, who grabbed a handful of shirt... Messi, though, retaliated with a stray elbow which saw him receive his marching orders." The Guardian and the BBC also use "47 seconds". Assistant coach Tocalli said the replay showed Messi "ni lo toco". No appeal succeeded and the red card was not rescinded; no record of rescission was found. Vanczak said in 2025 that Messi "was not aggressive". Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    FIFA
    Location
    Ferenc Puskas Stadium, Budapest, Hungary

    Why it matters

    The debut and dismissal are documented to the second by the governing body, which is what allows the popular variants to be identified as variants rather than treated as competing facts.

    Counterargument

    Popular accounts vary, giving "43 seconds" or "92 seconds on the pitch"; FIFA's 47 seconds is the best-attributed figure.

    Independent sources:
    4
    Total references:
    4
  10. RecORIGIN-039Exact dateBarcelona formation

    First senior competitive start, 9 October 2005: World Cup 2006 qualifier against Peru

    Messi started and played the full 90 minutes of the 2006 World Cup qualifier against Peru at the Estadio Monumental, won 2-0. A foul on him produced the penalty converted by Riquelme, which also resulted in the dismissal of the Peru goalkeeper Leao Butron; the second goal was a Guadalupe own goal. He had featured earlier in the qualifying campaign as a substitute against Paraguay. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact

    This record carries competing dated sources. They are shown as they stand and are not reconciled into a single date.

    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Location
    Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Why it matters

    His first competitive senior start, and a date that circulates in two forms; the record fixes which one is better attributed and why the other exists.

  11. RecORIGIN-032Exact dateBarcelona formation

    The 2005-06 licence dispute: RFEF, LFP, CSD and CEDD decisions, October 2005 to March 2006

    Created by the Phase 1 split of the nationality and licence entry and recorded as confirmed fact resting on official findings. The chronology is: RFEF Comite de Competicion, 18 October 2005 (Messi may play as Spanish); RFEF Junta Directiva, 11 November 2005 (licence valid); LFP Comision Delegada, 14 November 2005 (requested nullity, citing the absence of the LFP's preceptive visado); a CSD competence-conflict referral; and the CEDD outcome around March 2006, in which FC Barcelona was not sanctioned and responsibility was assigned to the RFEF as licence-issuer. The independent-confirmation audit rates this the only genuinely multi-source item in the phase, because the RFEF, LFP, CSD and CEDD each issued distinct institutional acts. The verbatim decision documents were not independently retrieved; the chronology is held through the contemporaneous iusport.es narrative.

    Classification: Confirmed factStatus: Official finding

    Original base-entry text unavailable; this record is reconstructed only from surviving correction and synthesis material.

    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    FC Barcelona, La Liga / LFP, Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF)

    Why it matters

    Four institutions acting separately on the same question make this the strongest evidentiary item in the origins file — and the retrieval gap in the decision texts is the phase's second declared residual gap.

    Open questions

    • Can the verbatim RFEF, LFP, CSD and CEDD decision texts of 2005-06 be independently retrieved?
    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1
  12. RecORIGIN-041Exact dateBarcelona formation

    The 2005-06 season: first Clasico, the Chelsea tie, and the injury that ended his season

    Messi started his first Clasico on 19 November 2005 at the Bernabeu, which Barcelona won 3-0 and at which Ronaldinho received a Bernabeu ovation. In the Champions League round of 16 against Chelsea, Barcelona won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on 22 February 2006, with Asier del Horno sent off in the 39th minute after a challenge on Messi; UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body reclassified the offence as "rough play" and imposed a one-match ban. In the return at Camp Nou on 7 March 2006, which finished 1-1, Messi went off after roughly 24 to 25 minutes with a right-thigh or hamstring tear, described by UEFA as a "muscle injury" of about four weeks. The injury ruled him out of the rest of the season, including the 2006 Champions League final in Paris on 17 May 2006, which Barcelona won 2-1 against Arsenal; Messi later said he regretted not celebrating. Phase 1's lock table records the entry as locked.

    Classification: Confirmed fact
    People
    Lionel Andrés Messi
    Organisations
    UEFA

    Why it matters

    Closes the origins file at the March 2006 cutoff and records a disciplinary reclassification by a governing body alongside the injury that ended the season.

    Counterargument

    The phrasing of the injury varies between "hamstring" and "thigh"; UEFA used both.

    Independent sources:
    1
    Total references:
    1

Evidence matrix

No claim tied to this case file's events has recorded evidence-matrix rows on file.

The counterargument

The strongest reading in the LFP's favour is that its objection was not frivolous: a specific procedural requirement, the league's visado, was said to be missing, and the LFP was entitled to test that. The record accommodates this — it treats the four bodies' disagreement as genuine rather than manufactured — but notes that the process ran its course and the final competent ruling, by the CEDD, exonerated the club and located responsibility with the licence-issuing federation.

Counterargument

The exact goal count varies between accounts; five is the common figure.

Counterargument

Popular accounts vary, giving "43 seconds" or "92 seconds on the pitch"; FIFA's 47 seconds is the best-attributed figure.

Counterargument

The phrasing of the injury varies between "hamstring" and "thigh"; UEFA used both.

Key documents

Governing-body regulation or decision

AFA.com.ar — synthesis of the senior debut against Hungary, 17 August 2005

Asociacion del Futbol Argentino

Partially retrievedLanguage: esIndependent source

Supports

  • f5a8be8f-03b3-59cf-a93e-461bd0420c25

Federation source, characterised in the Phase 1 ledger as retrospective rather than contemporaneous. No URL survives in the corrections addendum.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

Official match report

FIFA.com / FIFA digitalhub — U-20 retrospective records (six-goal Golden Ball and Golden Boot; the 47-second red card)

FIFA

Partially retrievedLanguage: enIndependent source

Supports

  • e4a73dd1-b0be-5650-9ebf-f157819c828d
  • 0d75b0b2-be29-5a9e-b997-5ec2e4452d8a
  • c497366e-0aeb-54c7-920c-5fd01ca9d8af
  • f5a8be8f-03b3-59cf-a93e-461bd0420c25

The same FIFA record carries the debut and dismissal passage: "the 18-year-old entered the fray in place of Lisandro Lopez in the 63rd minute. Just 47 seconds later, he received the ball and spun away from Vilmos Vanczak, who grabbed a handful of shirt... Messi, though, retaliated with a stray elbow which saw him receive his marching orders." Characterised in the Phase 1 ledger as a retrospective feature. No URL survives in the corrections addendum.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

Governing-body regulation or decision

UEFA.com reports: Champions League debut and first goal, the Del Horno ban, the 2006 thigh injury, and the Spanish passport

UEFA · 2005

Partially retrievedLanguage: enIndependent source

Supports

  • ad46667c-f572-5c3e-b890-8c3c577e674d
  • 3b623211-95c9-5378-9655-7ca038d4e28c
  • 0621a2df-b737-5b2d-a330-1036ac5f2189

Governing-body reporting. UEFA used both "hamstring" and "thigh" for the March 2006 injury, and contemporaneously reported that Messi "juro la Constitucion". No URL survives in the corrections addendum, so this source is not recorded as fully retrieved.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

Specialist legal or refereeing analysis

"El caso Messi" — contemporaneous legal narrative of the 2005-06 licence dispute

iusport.es (Latorre) · 2005-11

Partially retrievedLanguage: esIndependent source

Supports

  • 666408bf-3f88-5a3b-9047-87baf9e7f020
  • a2f22a4a-e454-542d-bb26-7a792d20c5b7
  • 841b952e-c107-55d9-a98e-bab3745ae7a0

Contemporaneous to the dispute (November 2005 - March 2006). The sole vehicle in the corpus for the RFEF/LFP/CSD/CEDD chronology and for FC Barcelona's own announcement of 28 June 2005. The verbatim decision documents themselves were NOT independently retrieved. No URL survives in the corrections addendum, so this source is not recorded as fully retrieved.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

Secondary reporting

BBC report using the "47 seconds" figure for the 2005 senior debut dismissal

BBC

Partially retrievedLanguage: enIndependent source

Supports

  • f5a8be8f-03b3-59cf-a93e-461bd0420c25

Named in the Phase 1 addendum as using FIFA's "47 seconds" figure.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

Secondary reporting

The Guardian report using the "47 seconds" figure for the 2005 senior debut dismissal

The Guardian

Partially retrievedLanguage: enIndependent source

Supports

  • f5a8be8f-03b3-59cf-a93e-461bd0420c25

Named in the Phase 1 addendum as using FIFA's "47 seconds" figure.

Retrieved 2026-07-17

People and organizations

People

  • Lionel Andrés Messi

    • Player, FC Barcelona · 2000–2021
    • Player, Paris Saint-Germain · 2021–2023
    • Player, Inter Miami CF · 2023–present
    • Captain, Argentina national team
    Legal status: Convicted · Spain · 2017-05-24Legal status: Not charged · Spain

Organizations

  • FC Barcelona

    Legal status: Investigado · Spain

  • La Liga / LFP

  • Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF)

  • CONMEBOL

  • adidas

  • FIFA

  • UEFA

Open questions and source gaps

Open questions and source gaps

  • Can the verbatim RFEF, LFP, CSD and CEDD decision texts of 2005-06 be independently retrieved?

Corrections and version history

No correction in the ledger (data/corrections) is recorded against this case file's events. Corrections are append-only and would appear here the moment one is filed against a record in this case file — this is not a claim that the record has never needed correction, only that none is on file here.

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