DISC practice questions

Question 1

During an international club match, supporters of the home club set off flares. The club argues that it hired a private security firm and therefore cannot be sanctioned. What is the usual disciplinary starting point?

Accepted Answer

Clubs and associations are responsible for their supporters’ conduct; outsourcing security does not by itself extinguish that responsibility. The Disciplinary Code treats clubs and associations as responsible for the behaviour of their supporters. Hiring a contractor, or failing to identify a particular spectator, does not by itself remove that organisational responsibility. Civil litigation is a separate track.

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Only the security contractor may be sanctioned, never the club.

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Clubs and associations are responsible for their supporters’ conduct; outsourcing security does not by itself extinguish that responsibility.

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Sanctions are available only if a named individual supporter is identified first.

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Disciplinary proceedings cannot start unless the opposing club files a civil claim.

Question 2

A disciplinary body is asked to sanction a club for discriminatory chants by a section of its supporters. The club proves it posted stadium warnings. Why might it still be sanctioned?

Accepted Answer

Because liability for spectator misconduct can attach without proving club intent. Spectator-conduct offences are a classic strict-liability pattern: the organisation can be sanctioned for what occurred in its sector even where it did not intend the chants. Warnings may be relevant to the measure, but they are not an automatic defence, and the Code of Ethics is the wrong instrument for this stadium fact pattern.

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Because liability for spectator misconduct can attach without proving club intent.

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Because posted warnings convert the incident into a players’ offence only.

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Because only FIFA Council, not the disciplinary bodies, can hear chanting cases.

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Because warnings are an absolute defence under the Code of Ethics.

Question 3

Which statement best matches how FIFA disciplinary enforcement is limited in time?

Accepted Answer

Limitation periods apply, and they can differ by the type of offence; they are not identical to a civil prescription period chosen by the parties. The Disciplinary Code sets limitation periods that vary by offence category. Parties cannot replace those periods with a private civil deadline, and it is incorrect that nothing ever prescribes or that only doping is time-limited.

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There is never a limitation period for any disciplinary offence.

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Limitation periods apply, and they can differ by the type of offence; they are not identical to a civil prescription period chosen by the parties.

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Every offence prescribed after thirty days from the match.

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Only doping offences are subject to limitation.

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