After Cape Town Spurs were relegated from Motsepe Foundation Championship, KickOff sought legal opinion on what happens to players with professional contracts at the club.
Spurs were relegated from the second tier after a 1-0 defeat to Durban City in the final matchday saw them finish 15th in the standings.
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Indications are that the Ikamva-based outfit will lose most of their valuable players on a free, including captain Asanele Velebayi - who had a bid rejected from Kaizer Chiefs last season - and striker Luke Baartman, among others.
This website spoke to a law expert to clarify what happens with contracts of Spurs players that run beyond 2024/25, now that they will drop to a league considered 'amateur' in the country.
"When you're in ABC Motsepe, your link to a club is related to a season. Once the season ends, nobody will come and say, 'Hey, you have a contract'," Mpho Nkontlha, of Nkontlha Attorneys, explained.
"You sign with SAFA that you'll be playing for a particular club, it's just a registration. You sign a registration form. But with NFD, it's a professional set-up, like the PSL.
"With regards to players contracted to a team like Spurs relegated from NFD, the amateur status will kick in after 30 June 2025.
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KickOff.com has been led to believe that Spurs could claim compensation for the development of players under the age of 21 (with the claiming period up to 23 years but the calculation only until 21). The claim would be complicated, though, since the players were already playing professionally, if they move to local clubs.
