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365 SPORTS LAW Contract for Temporary Transfer of Professional Football Players* Att. Ece Özsü Introduction InArticle 2 titled Definitions of Regulations on Professional Foot- ball Players’ Status and Transfers (“RPFPST”) issued by the Turkish Football Federation (“TFF”), the transfer of a player is defined as the first time the player signs a professional contract, or signs a contract with a club other than his current club, or temporarily changes his club. Within the scope of this paper, contracts concluded for the tem- porary transfers of the players, famously known as ‘loaned,’ by the public, which are a type of players’ transfers under the aforementioned provision of the RPFPST, will be examined. The need of a player to be transferred to another team temporarily may arise in some situations where it is not possible for a professional football player to temporarily play football at the club with which he signed a professional football player contract, for various reasons (ex- cept in the case of injury). In such cases, Article 15 of RPFPST titled Temporary Transfer comes into question. Purpose and Definition of Temporary Transfer In temporary transfers, the club that has made a professional foot- ball player contract with the player, and temporarily gives this player to another club. It may be possible for the player to play in another club, temporarily, for many reasons, such as the permanent transfer of the player by a third club may not be possible due to the economic conditions of this club, failure of the football player to agree with the coaching staff and/or management of the club with which he has signed a contract, or is unable to take part with the current team, or to * Article of October, 2020