
The Japan Football Association announced that it has reached an agreement with the Japanese Professional Players Association to adjust the free agent (FA) compensation system starting from this off-season.
The Japan Football Association announced that it has reached an agreement with the players union to adjust the free agent compensation system starting from this off-season, abolishing "person compensation" and replacing it with draft naming rights or monetary compensation in the future.
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The Japan Football Association and the Japanese Professional Players Association have reached an agreement to adjust the free agent compensation system.
[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The Nippon Basketball Association (NPB) announced today that it has reached an agreement with the National Players Association to adjust the free agent (FA) compensation system starting from this off-season. "Personal compensation" will be abolished. In the future, compensation will be provided by draft naming rights or money.
Japanese media "Sports News" reported that the Japanese baseball organization announced that starting from the 2027 off-season, the original free agent (FA) team transfer compensation will be changed to draft naming rights compensation. Teams can choose to obtain the right to be named in the next year's draft from the opposing team (players ranked A in annual salary are in the second round, players in Class B are in the third round), or choose monetary compensation.
As for the compensation content of the draft naming rights and the classification method of player rankings, the Japan Football Organization stated that it will be reviewed in the 2029 off-season.
NPB has also made adjustments to the classification of free agent compensation rankings. Class A is still the 1st to 3rd in the annual salary ranking, Class B is adjusted to the 4th to 8th, and Class C is the 9th and above.
In addition, starting from this off-season, any player who exercises his free agent rights will not need to provide any compensation to the original team as long as he reaches the age of 35 on April 1 of the following year.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The draft naming rights compensation content and player ranking classification will be reviewed in the 2029 off-season.
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