Course summary
Engage in online taught learning from anywhere, with continuous training and practice.
Learn from top sports law experts and practitioners.
Gain expertise in sports law procedures at tribunals like CAS, FIFA’s Football Tribunal, and National Anti-Doping Panels.
Improve your employability through placements, internships and real-world sporting disputes.
The course will help you gain clinical expertise in the resolution of sport-related disputes – arming you with the knowledge and confidence to effectively advise and represent clients. You’ll gain expertise in pre-trial behaviour, negotiation, arbitration, and advocacy, engaging with real-life cases in a range of practice areas.
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
This course gives you the skills, knowledge and confidence to be able to effectively advise and represent clients in complex sport-related disputes. You’ll gain expertise in the practice and procedure before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), FIFA's Football Tribunal, the National Anti-Doping Panel in the UK and other disciplinary courts and tribunals.
You’ll experience a high quality, supportive and intensive learning environment. The overall approach emphasises knowledge and understanding in policy, procedure and practice in sports law, while enhancing your intellectual and employability skills to postgraduate level.
You learn through:
Lectures
Guided reading
Seminars
Peer support and reflection
Workshops
Student presentations
Independent learning
Reflection and evaluation
This course prepares you for a career in:
Anti-doping law
Football law
Sport governance
Sport administration
Sport agency and consultancy (in marketing and practice in law)
Sports law
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
Barnsley FC
Celtic FC
Manchester City FC
Nottingham Forest FC
The Football Association
Prosport International (South Africa)
The FA (Football Association)
UK Anti-Doping
UK Golf
The Olympic Games
Harry Drury Solicitors (UK),
Highbridge Law Firm (Denmark)
Sports Law Expert (UK and USA)
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
Expected August 2025
Start date
January 2025
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus,
Howard Street,
Sheffield,
S1 1WB, NORTHERN ENGLAND, England
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
Expected August 2025
Start date
January 2025
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus,
Howard Street,
Sheffield,
S1 1WB, NORTHERN ENGLAND, England
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Sheffield Hallam has been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 for outstanding support for student success and progression.