What "legal" options are available to Barcelona in the case of Catalonia secession?
The world football audience is waiting for what will happen in the referendum on the secession of Catalonia because of the great uncertainty surrounding the fate of Barcelona. If this step is indeed taken, the separation occurs and between talking about moving to another league or staying in the league, the legal details of each option must be examined.
Spanish law prohibits any club from outside the state to participate in local tournaments. Excluded from this decision are the clubs of neighboring Andorra, which has many football and basketball clubs in Spain, but except for Andorra there is no other exception.
Spanish league president Javier Teppas has expressed his support for the opinion of officials of the Spanish Federation, saying that it is supposed to Barcelona and all the clubs of Catalonia to leave the league already in case of separation was the tension that will appear between Catalonia and Spain then make the presence of one league is difficult.
English law seems more lenient, which allows the rich clubs of Wales and Northern Ireland to participate in English tournaments and according to the rules of the FA, any non-English club wants to participate needs to achieve several factors, the most important economic balance well coupled with the proximity of competition, which made this option confined to the British teams so far .
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