<p class="reg-lead">The current edition, adopted on 4 February 2025 and in force from that date; it clarified the period of validity of a transfer authorisation, imposed a ceiling of two transferred wrestlers per club and abandoned the primacy of the French text.</p>
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<tr><td>Adoption</td><td><b>4 February 2025</b> — Bureau of the federation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>13 articles</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td><strong>Current edition</strong> — governing club transfers</td></tr>
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<h2>What is the Regulations for International Transfers?</h2>
<p>United World Wrestling's Regulations for International Transfers govern the movement of wrestlers <strong>between clubs</strong> for participation in club competitions, and differ fundamentally from a change of nationality: here the wrestler's national affiliation remains untouched and only a temporary authorisation to appear for a foreign club is issued. The document defines the parties involved — the wrestler, the club of origin, the receiving club and the national federations of both clubs — sets out the authority competent to issue the authorisation and the documents required, determines the transfer fee on the basis of the wrestler's level of medal achievement, and provides a sanction for direct contact with a wrestler without observance of the required formalities.</p>
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<h2>About the February 2025 edition<span class="reg-tag">Changes from November 2017</span></h2>
<h3>Key changes from the previous edition</h3>
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<li><b class="t">Period of validity of the transfer authorisation</b>It was made explicit that a transfer authorisation is valid <strong>until 31 December of the same year</strong>, and, for <strong>league competitions that run across the turn of the year, until 1 March of the following year</strong>. The previous edition had not clarified any such time limit.</li>
<li><b class="t">Ceiling of two transferred wrestlers per club</b>No club may participate in international club competitions with <strong>more than two internationally transferred wrestlers</strong>.</li>
<li><b class="t">Revision of the fee table</b>The levels of medal achievement in the fee table were redefined, and the <strong>senior/U23 world</strong> and <strong>junior (U20)</strong> categories replaced the previous division; the figure of 2,500 francs for the highest level remained unchanged.</li>
<li><b class="t">Results assessment period and age requirement</b>The text clarified by way of example that results of the <strong>past four years</strong> are the relevant criterion (for 2025, meaning from 2021 up to the date of the application), and the minimum age was explained with the example "17 years or older".</li>
<li><b class="t">Language of the document: English only</b>The text is now published <strong>in English only</strong>; the previous rule under which the French version prevailed in the event of a discrepancy was removed.</li>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>Clubs engaging foreign wrestlers and wrestlers participating in club leagues abroad are directly subject to this text. Three points are decisive in practice: the period of validity of the transfer authorisation, the ceiling on the number of transferred wrestlers a club may field in a competition, and the prohibition on negotiating directly with a wrestler before the formalities have been completed — a breach of which gives rise to disciplinary proceedings.</p>
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UWW Regulations for International Transfers February 2025

<p class="reg-lead">FIBA International Transfers of Players — February 2022 changes.</p>
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<tr><td>Date</td><td><b>February 2022</b> — based on the webinar of 24 January 2022</td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>7 pages — a guidance document, not a regulation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td>Guidance on changes to the transfer system</td></tr>
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<h2>What is this document?</h2>
<p>In 2019 FIBA launched <strong>MAP</strong> (the Management and Administration Platform) and made it available to all 212 national federations so that they could request, issue and monitor international transfers through it. Since then, more than <strong>25,000 letters of clearance (LOC)</strong> have been processed and approved in the system. This document explains the changes implemented with the new version of MAP from <strong>1 February 2022</strong>.</p>
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<h2>Key points</h2>
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<li><b class="t">The problem of duplicate player and club records</b>With federations having direct access to the system, many created a new record instead of searching for the existing player or club. The result was that a single club acquired several identities and <strong>a single player appeared in the system under several different identification numbers</strong>.</li>
<li><b class="t">The legal consequence of this disorder</b>The document is explicit: matters reached the point where <strong>some clubs benefited from unlawful transfers</strong> — by using a different identity. The February 2022 changes were made to close off precisely this route.</li>
<li><b class="t">FIBA-licensed agents</b>A separate section is devoted to the position of licensed agents and the changes affecting them in the letter of clearance process.</li>
<li><b class="t">The standing of this document</b>This is a guidance document and not a binding regulation; the governing text is <strong>Chapter Two of Book Three of the Internal Regulations</strong>, which determines the transfer procedure and the letter of clearance.</li>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>For national federations that issue or request letters of clearance, and for lawyers handling transfer cases: the duplicate-identity defect in the system had real consequences and may still arise in cases concerning transfers from that period.</p>
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UWW Regulations for International Transfers February 2025

FIBA International Transfers of Players