I. THE PARTIES

A. The Main Parties

1 UEFA is an association incorporated under Swiss law with its headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. UEFA is the governing body of European football, dealing with all questions relating to European football and exercising regulatory, supervisory and disciplinary functions over national associations, clubs, officials and players of the European continent.

UEFA is one of the six continental confederations of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (hereinafter “FIFA”), which is the governing body of football on worldwide level and has its registered office in Zurich, Switzerland. One of UEFA’s tasks is to organise and conduct international football competitions and tournaments at European level. In this context, UEFA organises each year the UEFA Europa League (hereinafter “UEL”), which is a competition gathering professional football teams from all over the continent of Europe.

2 OLA is a professional football club competing, under the sportive name “FC Sion”, in the Swiss “Super League” and constituted as a limited company (société anonyme) under Article 620 of the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO) with the corporate name Olympique des Alpes SA, having its registered office in Martigny-Combe, Switzerland. It is affiliated with the Swiss Football Association (hereinafter “SFA”) as member club no. 8700.

It is to be noted that the Football Club Sion Association is an amateur football club with registered office in Sion, Switzerland, constituted as an association in the sense of Article 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code (CC). FC Sion Association is affiliated with the SFA as member club no. 8040 and its first team takes part in an amateur championship, which is the sixthtier national division in Switzerland.