The International Football Association (FIFA) has made many amendments to the laws and regulations of the game in recent years, and usually highlights the amendments to the law only, although some recent amendments to the FIFA regulations are no less important and will affect the policy of some teams that depend on loaning some of their players, such as Real Madrid, as well as which resorts frequently to borrowing players.

It is scheduled that the new amendments to the loan regulations will be applied starting from the current season 2022-2023.

Some teams - most notably Real Madrid - depend on buying young players at low prices, and loaning them to clubs until they mature, hoping to benefit from them later or sell them for larger amounts, as happened with the Japanese player Takefusa Kubo, who Real Madrid sold this week to Real Sociedad after years of loaning him for other clubs.

International sports lawyer Mohamed Metwally says - to Al-Jazeera Net - that FIFA made in its annual conference for the current year, known simply as "FLAR 2022" (FLAR 2022), 6 important amendments to the regulations related to loaning players, which are explained as follows:

  • Banning a loan from the borrowing team to another team.

    For example, when the Turkish club Galatasaray wanted to loan the player Mustafa Mohamed to the French team Lyon without buying the player from his original club Zamalek of Egypt, the borrowing team had the right to loan the loaned player to another team with the approval of his original club, but this point was canceled in the new amendments.

  • The minimum loan is "half season", the maximum is "one year", and above that in the loan contract is not considered.

  • The maximum number of players on loan from one team to another is "3 players only".

  • The maximum number of players loaned from one team to different teams is “8 players”, provided that the loan from team A to team B does not exceed 3 players.

    For example, team A can lend 8 players, including 3 to team B, 3 to team C and two to team D, or the number can be distributed to as many teams as possible, which is 8 teams, one player for each team.

  • As an exception, it is permissible for a team to loan a ninth player if this player is under the age of 21, in order to obtain good training in another team, and it is taken into account that the team loaned to this player did not get 3 players from the same loaned team.

  • If the team loaned the maximum in one season (8 players), its maximum in the next season is "7 players only", and if the loan repeats the maximum again, then the maximum in the third season is "6 players only".

  • Metwally indicates that FIFA's goal with these amendments is to maintain the stability of players in their clubs, and to protect young players from sitting on the bench without participation.