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Originally Posted by Cod
Do a lot of international leagues have salary caps? I only follow football/soccer and other than UEFA's pretend FFP rules, there aren't really any caps.
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No, not really
I do not know of any football league outside of MLS who uses one.
And MLS cap rules are pretty hard to figure out with designated player spots, veteran maxes, young player maxes and so many exceptions to almost every rule.
The KHL hockey league that used to be the 2nd best behind the NHL uses a salary cap.
But that league is a bit of a mess right now because Russia has been a naughty child the last few years.
All of the non Russian teams have left the league.
French basketball is getting a salary cap next season in an attempt to make the league financially healthier.
There has been talk of the Euroleague for basketball having some sort of salary cap or financial rules like the UEFA Financial fair play rules.
One example I can think of from European football is Olympique Lyonnais from the early to mid 2000s
They won the league 7 times in a row despite being upper mid level in terms of revenue.
They latched onto the market inefficiency of bringing in youth players, or buying them cheap from other teams, and playing them for a few years to build their value and win matches, and then selling the for high prices.
They did this for almost a decade and won a lot of championships doing it.
But then teams like Monaco and to a larger extent PSG came in over the top with heaps of cash and that ended.
Also other teams poached the brain trust from Lyon and now they are spread out over Europe.