International Transfer
In essence this process includes all cases where some type of international clearance is required for the player to be registered, e.g.:
players that transfer from a club from a Foreign Country into your country,
first registrations of players that are born outside, or are not nationals of your country,
all types of minor exemption applications
International Workflow
All registrations submitted by clubs that meet the above criteria will be deflected to the International Workflow, which is quite similar to the standard Registration Workflow, but has it statuses have the suffix INT, and all governing body actions are managed by the role INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ADMIN instead of PLAYER ADMIN. Below is an overview of the Registration (below) and International Clearance (up) Workflows in case of Standard Club Registration Workflows | StandardClubRegistrationWorkflows-Pay-After-Approval standard option.
A you can notice on the above diagram, under certain criteria, on submission of registration by Club, the process workflow is automatically switched to International Workflow (upper part) under certain conditions. These conditions are the following:
Previous Official Registration outside of your country
First Registration with Nationality outside of your country
First Registration with Country of Birth outside of your country
any Clearance Type selected
So, after the Club submits a registration, it may either end-up in:
SUBMITTED status: standard workflow, no clearance required, administered by PLAYER ADMIN
SUBMITTED INT status: international workflow, clearance may be required, administered by INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ADMIN
In the second case the International Affairs Admin can do the following actions:
Approve (Save as APPROVED/CONFIRMED): the registration is approved and then depending on standard workflow, it is either immediately CONFIRMED or it is APPROVED and pending payment by Club
Return (Save as RETURNED): the registration is returned to the club with instructions to resubmit the registration with additional info or documents
Reject (Save as REJECTED INT): the registration is rejected and the process is completed
Set as Waiting (see below)
WAITING INT Status
When the International Affairs Admin sets the status as WAITING INT, that means that the registration has been processed by the governing body in FIFA TMS (e.g. ITC or Minor Exemption was requested) and now the process is waiting for a third party, commonly the input/feedback from FIFA
WAITING INT is an indication to clubs that the request is now being processed by a 3rd party (FIFA) and there is no need to call or ask for input from he governing body. Clubs will be notified when input/feedback is received and status changed.
Once input/feedback is received, the International Affairs Admin can now approve or reject the registration, or return and request additional information from the club.
International Transfers Console
Administrators can access the International Transfers Console from the Players Module, selecting the menu item "International Transfers". This feature allows you to monitor all International Transfers in a single place and quickly access all registrations that are either pending action from administrators (SUBMITTED INT) or are pending action from a third party (WAITING INT).
Futsal International Transfer
In the event of all Football International Transfers, the ITC (International Transfer Clearance) is issued by the Releasing Association to the Engaging Association in the FIFA TMS system. Once completed, the status of players's registration is updated by the International Admin in COMET.
For Futsal this is not the case, and International Futsal Transfer Certificates (IFTC) are not administered in FIFA TMS. Therefore, Releasing Associations can generate a PDF version of IFTC on the registration detail in MyCOMET.
This option is only visible on official player registrations in discipline=Futsal for a foreign country, and only when the previous official futsal player registration is domestic.
To generate an IFTC:
Navigate to the Clubs menu item in the MyCOMET system
In order to see the international clubs, turn on the International toggle button.
Select a club from the list by clicking on the row containing its name and information. You can also filter out clubs by using any of the filters above the clubs list or by typing down its name, ID or place in the 🔍 Search bar.
After selecting a club, navigate to the Players tab. Click on the player for whom you wish to generate the IFTC.
Navigate to the Details tab of the player’s registration for the club. From here, under the Registration section, click on the Form button. You will be presented with two options:
Generate registration form
Generate IFTC
Click on the Generate IFTC to proceed.
An IFTC document has now been generated. It will be automatically downloaded to your device in the .pdf form. It is ready to be sent to the Engaging Association.
