Corporate Relations and Sports Organizations: Problem Setting

The article is dedicated to the problem of the establishment of grounds to acknowledge some sports organizations as corporations and whether it is appropriate to make a link between sports rules and corporate life, corporate relations. To that effect, the author analyzes sports relations and singles out such legal relations as: organizational, servicing and primary that are related to direct participation in a sports event, where the essence of competitions is revealed. Attention is paid to the fact that Russian sports federations are legally defined as public organizations, and sports clubs may have various forms of incorporation and may be not corporations, however, the analysis shows that they are usually established in the form of public associations or economic entities. Attributes and types of corporations are reviewed. A conclusion is made that any expressions that contain reference to corporations should stipulate that a corporation is an organization, where membership of founders of a legal entity is maintained, and a general meeting of members is the supreme governing body.