Supreme Court overturns Barça statute change on season ticket transfers | OneFootball

Spain’s Supreme Court has struck down Barcelona’s October 2018 General Assembly decision that tightened rules on lending season tickets. The ruling backs four members who were sanctioned and suspended for four, 14 and 18 months, three on 24 July 2018 and the fourth on 11 July.

According to El Periódico Mediterráneo, the court, in a judgment made public on Monday, annulled the amendment to article 73 that classified any handover of a season ticket to a third party in return for money as a paid transfer.

None of the four could attend the assembly because their membership rights had already been suspended, a situation that had led lower courts to say they lacked standing to contest the vote.

The amended statute also treated as a serious offence the one-off paid transfer or making available of a pass granting access to a club event, except when done through or in favour of the club.

Before the change, only transfers above the official price of a match were considered paid. After the vote, any transfer involving any financial consideration, whether above or below face value, fell under that definition.

Source: El Periódico Mediterráneo