Training rewards
Training rewards is the collective name in the regulations for the two mechanisms that compensate clubs for developing young players: training compensation and the solidarity mechanism.
They are frequently confused and they are not the same. Training compensation is paid when a young player is first registered as a professional, and again on transfers before the end of the season of their 23rd birthday. The solidarity mechanism applies whenever a player moves during the term of a contract and a fee is paid, and it distributes a proportion of that fee among the clubs that trained them.
Reading them as one thing is where the mistakes happen. A move can trigger one, both, or neither, and the answer turns on the player’s age, whether the contract had run its course, and whether any fee changed hands.
Both are calculated from the same underlying record: where the player was registered and when. That is why the electronic player passport matters and why an error in a registration record is not a filing problem but a money problem.
Worked example
A 22-year-old moves mid-contract for a fee.
The age brings training compensation into play, and the fee paid during a contract brings the solidarity mechanism into play. Two calculations, two sets of recipients, from one transfer.
Related terms
- Training compensationTraining compensation is paid to the clubs that trained a player when they first register as a professional, and on every subsequent transfer until the end of the calendar year of their 23rd birthday.
- Solidarity mechanismThe solidarity mechanism reserves 5% of any compensation paid when a professional transfers before their contract expires, distributed among every club that trained them between the calendar years of their 12th and 23rd birthdays.
- Electronic player passportThe electronic player passport is the consolidated record of where a player has been registered across their career, from the calendar year of their 12th birthday onwards.