Legal bases, conditions, imperatives and restrictions of public financing of professional sports sphere: foreign experience

The article investigates legal possibilities, conditions and limits of public financial support of professional sport. The authors present examples of enshrined in foreign laws guarantees and restrictions of public financial support of professional sport. The article provides an overview of the experience of Austria, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Finland, Chile, Switzerland (Switzerland - at both the federal and regional levels) - on the grounds of legal regulation and limits of state financial support to professional sports. The article concluded that the analysis of the experience of other countries highlights the many challenges faced by the public authorities in dealing with the financial support of professional sports, including the problems that put the question at all about the feasibility of such financial support.