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Markéta Haindlová

About Markéta

An attorney specialising in sports law, chair of the Czech Association of Football Players and a member of the FIFPRO Division Europe Executive Board. In practice since 2013.

JUDr. Markéta Vochoska Haindlová, LL.M.

Education

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University (2009) and a year later completed the LL.M. programme at the University of Zurich. In June 2021 she passed the rigorous examination and defended her thesis on sports arbitration.

She lectures on sports law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University.

Positions and memberships

  • Co-founder (2011) and chair of the Czech Association of Football Players (since 2013)
  • Board member of the National Court of Arbitration for Sport (since 2023)
  • Member of the FIFPRO Division Europe Executive Board (since 2021)
  • Vice-president of European Boxing (since 2025)
  • Member of the UEFA Social & Environmental Sustainability Committee (since 2023)
  • Member of the World Boxing Interim Executive Board (2023)
  • Member of the Expert Group of the Czech National Sports Council (since 2021)
  • Co-founder of the Czech Association of Ice Hockey Players (2026)
  • Chair of the Appeals and Review Committee of the Czech FA (2010–2013)
  • Member of the executive committee of WAIPU, the international association of hockey players’ unions (2012–2019)
  • Chair of the Legal Committee of the European Minifootball Federation (2014–2015)

The European Sports Law and Policy Bulletin and International and Comparative Sport Justice recommend Markéta Haindlová as a specialist in sports law in the Czech Republic.

Projects

  • Czech Association of Football Players

    The largest Czech organisation of professional athletes, defending players’ interests at national and global level. Markéta co-founded it and has chaired it since 2013.

  • Shoes4Life

    Sports shoes that sit unused in a wardrobe open doors elsewhere. The Shoes4Life endowment fund connects donors in Europe with children’s football academies and other organisations in the world’s poorest regions, where equipment is genuinely missing.

  • Czech Women in Sport

    An organisation whose mission is to bring together and legally represent women working in sport in the Czech Republic and to build a more equal culture between men and women. CZEWIS links the business, academic and sporting spheres and makes cooperation between them easier.

  • #čistáhlava

    A project of the Czech Association of Football Players raising awareness of athletes’ mental health and preventing addiction, including gambling.

  • ISDE Law & Business School

    A lecture to students in Madrid on the role of player associations.

Publications

Articles are published in Czech.

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