Formazione e invalidità del contratto sportivo tra pluralismo delle fonti e unità del sistema normativo

This paper focus on the employment contract between the professional athlete and the sports club. This topic requires a detailed analysis about the relationship between the different sources of law that regulate the same contract. First of all, this article analyzes the Law n. 91 of March 23, 1981, “Rules on relationship between sports club and sports professionals”. This Law sets the fixed-term employment contract as “contract type” and governing the main aspect of it as the legal form and its procedure of contract formation. The author, then, examines the contractual autonomy as regards the limits and checks carried by sports federations. Lastly, the paper analyzes the “pathological” aspects of the employment contract paying specific attention to how their effects concern both sports law and national procedural law.