First Pro Registration

The MA's NRS must communicate the details of each change in a player's status from amateur to professional to FIFA, including confirmation by the member association if the player has been trained at another Member Association.
Information about a player's first registration as a professional should not be communicated to FIFA in cases where the player is being transferred from another member association upon becoming a professional, i.e., in the event of an international transfer. The TMS application will handle such cases as part of the international transfer.

Please note that for one player, a "first registration as a professional" could happen more than once. Eg. if a player is registered in Club x as an amateur, is then transferred to Club y as professional, reacquires amateur status at Club y before being transferred to Club z as a professional (all within the same association), the relevant Member Association would have to send the “first professional registration” information to FIFA twice (from x to y and from y to z).

Through this message, an MA informs TMS about the first professional registration of a given player. The message itself is pretty simple and consists mainly of already defined elements:

• information about the player being registered - same as in the case of a Domestic Transfer Declaration (PersonLocal)

• information about the player's registrations - in this case, exactly one registration is required. As part of the PlayerRegistrationType passed in the PersonLocal object, the Member Association should send along the registration details of the player at the engaging club.

• club information - this is ClubType as defined for a Domestic Transfer Declaration

• club status

• PlayerTrainedInOtherMemberAssociation - this is a simple yes/no information. This value is of special importance to the Clearing House in determining whether the player's training contribution will need to be paid through the Clearing House.