The story behind the scenes Amateur clubs to gain millions?

Whilst there are no figures available to show it just yet, local clubs could benefit greatly from having the MYSAFA platform as they are now able to make claims to professional clubs for training and development compensation, which could amount to millions in the near future.

“So, oftentimes no one was compensated because players’ registration history was so murky. With MYSAFA, that’s not true anymore. We’ve been registering players since 2017. You can see when a new player is called up to the U17 national team, for instance, or the U20 – you can go into MYSAFA and see where they’ve come from. With great regularity, you can see that they’ve played in the GDL development leagues, starting at U13 and then U15 and U17, which is a successful development league that we’ve been registering and handling the registrations there since 2018. So many players have five-six years of registration history in there that conforms to the FIFA regulations and can be used for a training compensation claim. But those claims are generally made in the old way, via a lawyer, that essentially goes to the club that signed the player and says ‘Here’s the evidence’ and the invoice and the payments are made without our involvement other than providing the background information for it. And of course, we don’t get any compensation from that either. But that was never the plan. So, in that respect, the data in our system is used on an almost daily basis for training compensation. And one day, one day soon, all of that will happen automatically,” Anderson added.