The Legal Status of Russian Sports Organizations Implementing the Function of Self-Organization

The paper elucidates the legal status of sports organizations that implement the function of legal selforganization, and their organizational and legal forms. The author draws the readers’ attention to the fact that the organizations’ names given according to the legislator’s plan in terms originating from the sports area are not organizational and legal forms. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate significant concepts of sports legislation in relation to the modern civil law. The study of the role of various sports organizations in legal self-organization made it possible to conclude that, firstly, the inexhaustible list of functions of sports federations testifies to their central place in the system of legal self-organization bodies. Secondly, sports leagues are exclusively for official sports competitions; thirdly, the sports club does not have official authority to carry out legal self-organization in sports (clubs often represent their athletes in competitions and their activities are local in nature); fourthly, sports agents do not participate in the formation of basic rules for organizing sports. Having analyzed the organizational and legal forms of creating sports organizations used in practice, the author came to the conclusion that in the context of their ability to take part in work on legal self-organization, their nomination should be clarified, clearly defining the legal form.