Celtic could take UEFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if they continue their bid to appoint Ange Postecoglou as manager/first team coach.
Since Eddie Howe turned down the chance to become manager attention has been on the Yokohama Marinos boss who doesn’t hold any UEFA coaching qualifications.
Postecoglou does have Australian coaching badges and led his country to the 2014 World Cup Finals in Brazil but that won’t short cut him to the Pro Licence. UEFA regulations require First Team coaches to have a Pro Licence.
One Twitter user has detailed the consequences of appointing a manager that isn’t qualified which will add to the issues that Celtic are facing in their 100-day search to get a replacement for Neil Lennon.
Article 36 of the UEFA Club Licencing and Financial Fair Play document relating to the First Team Head coach explains:
1 The licence applicant must have appointed a qualified head coach who is responsible for football matters of the first squad.
2 The head coach must hold one of the following minimum coaching qualifications: a) Highest available valid UEFA coaching licence of the UEFA member association of the territory on which the licence applicant is situated according to the association’s membership status under the UEFA Coaching Convention; b) Valid non-UEFA coaching diploma which is equivalent to the one required for the licence under a) above and recognised by UEFA as such.
Postecoglou will also have to spend 10 days in quarantine if he arrives in Scotland, as will whoever Celtic have sent to Japan to conduct negotiations with Yokohama Marinos over compensation for their manager.
1. It is not remotely similar to Steven Gerrard. He had completed both UEFA A & UEFA B and was already enrolled in the Pro Licence and completed 6 months pre-Rangers.
The regulations state “must hold or working towards a level 5 [Pro Licence]”.
— CáI (@CaIMcI) June 2, 2021
…the process will be for the Scottish FA – with UEFA, to asses his qualification and then align it with whatever one here is relevant to the content of that course.
Note: Scotland education is notoriously strong and therefore he’ll not fall into the pro-licence category…
— CáI (@CaIMcI) June 2, 2021
3. Yes, the main stumbling block and the priority right now is the UEFA Competitions and that’s why UEFA are involved so early.
However, there is a domestic situation also where we would fall short of the requirements for our SFA Platinum Award for Club Licensing…
— CáI (@CaIMcI) June 2, 2021
