Overview

• On July 23, the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport rejected six precautionary measures sought by six Liga de Expansión clubs to prevent FMF reprisals.
• The decision allows the FMF to continue withholding 20 million pesos in annual subsidies and to enforce disciplinary fines against club officials.
• Earlier in the week, eight Expansion clubs formally renounced the FMF’s opaque certification process that they allege unfairly blocks merit-based promotion.
• The core arbitration over reinstating ascenso-descenso will move to a written phase followed by a hearing scheduled for September, with a final ruling expected by December.
• Clubs argue that a faceless certification committee applies discretionary criteria that undermine transparency, fair competition and the principle of sporting merit.