The main aims of the FIFA Clearing House is to increase the transparency of the transfer system, to protect its integrity and reinforce solidarity mechanisms for training clubs. These aims are sought to be reached by establishing a clearing house that centralise, process, and execute all payments related to transfers, hereunder transfer fees, solidarity contribution, training compensation and intermediaries/agents’ fees.

Training compensation has become an important source of income for many football clubs. FIFA’s global transfer market report for 2019 revealed that football clubs received a total of USD 12.2 million in training compensation from international transfers in 2019. However, there are certain obstacles that in practice prevents developing football clubs from being able to claim training compensation, in particular within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).