Judge Dismisses Case Against U.S. Soccer After Relevant Sports Claims That FIFA’s Refusal to Sanction International Soccer Matches in the United States Was Unlawful

By Jason A. Young, MA & Michael S. Carroll, PhD On July 21, 2021, United States District Court Judge Valerie Caproni dismissed a case against U.S. Soccer and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) alleging that the organizations had conspired to benefit Major League Soccer (MLS) by refusing to sanction matches in the US and thus cut off the American market. The lawsuit was filed by Relevant Sports, which claimed that U.S. Soccer was refusing to sanction Internatio