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In professional sport, economic gains arise when athletes are able to leverage bargaining power in contract negotiations, individually or collectively, and influence regulatory decision-making on issues that affect their working conditions. Free movement rights increased competition for athletes’ services with flow-on positive effects for wages in some sports. They also removed discriminatory working conditions for athletes moving between Member States and for athletes residing outside the European Union who were able to benefit from the Kolpak decision. The focus of this chapter is not on the immigration issues and removal of free movement provisions; those issues will be canvassed in detail in other chapters. Instead, this chapter will explore the effects of Brexit on the status of athletes as ‘workers’ and the development of collective labour laws in the United Kingdom. It concludes that the recognition of athletes as workers will depend on the direction in which employment legislation and common law decisions develop, post-Brexit, in the absence of the binding influence of EU law. Brexit will likely have no effect for the representation activities of players’ associations.
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