UEFA Anti-Doping
Season 2014/15
UEFA Anti-Doping Structure
UEFA Anti-Doping Unit
UEFA Anti-Doping Panel
Zoran Bahtijarevic (Croatia)
Diana Bianchedi (Italy)
Anders Hubinette (Sweden)
Jenni Kennedy (England)
Mogens Kreutzfeldt (Denmark)
Gilles Leclair (France)
Martial Saugy (Switzerland)
Fabrizio Tencone (Italy)
Philippe Verbiest (Belgium)
Jean-Luc Veuthey (Switzerland)
Representatives of National Anti-Doping Organisations:
Andrea Götzmann (Germany)
Anders Solheim (Norway)
Observer European Professional Football Leagues: Götz Dimanski
Observer FIFPro Division Europe: José Nebot Rodrigo
UEFA Anti-Doping Programme
1
Education and
Information
FAs and Clubs
FIFA
WADA
NADOs
Education
Test planning
DCOs
Regulations
Anti-Doping Panel
TUEs
Result
management
Laboratory
relations
Marc Vouillamoz
Caroline Thom
Mike Earl
Niki Papadimitriou
Richard Grisdale
Becky Lee
Charles-André Lutz
2
Testing
• New design for 2015
• 29000 distributed every season to all teams in
UEFA competition
• In-competition testing across all UEFA competitions
• Out-of-competition testing in UEFA Champions
League
• Urine and blood testing
• Good coordination with NADOs (intelligent testing)
• Target testing when needed
EDUCATION SESSIONS
IN-COMPETITION TESTING 2014/15
PLAYERS’ LEAFLET
• Education sessions for players, team doctors &
coaches at youth tournaments: U-19, WU-19, U-17,
WU-17 and Youth League
• 30 minute sessions with each team
• Simultaneous interpretation
• Presentations in each team’s language
• Video of doping control filmed during EURO 2012
• 44 teams = approx. 1100 players and staff
• Outreach activities with young players
3
Doping Control
Officers (DCOs)
DCO OPERATIONS
• Doping controls are confidential - clubs, FAs & UEFA
officials not informed in advance
• UEFA panel of 56 DCOs (male and female) from 27
countries
• All medical doctors
• Selected for matches according to nationality and
travel distance
• FAME: confidential online database for mission
support
UEFA Champions League:
• 360 samples collected
- 324 urine, 36 blood
UEFA Europa League:
• 619 samples collected
- 588 urine, 31 blood
Other competitions (women, youth, futsal):
• 688 samples collected
- 1 positive case
- Cannabis: player banned for 2 months
OUT-OF-COMPETITION TESTING 2014/15
• 32 teams in UEFA Champions League
• 721 samples collected
- 489 urine, 232 blood
• No positive cases
TESTING SUMMARY (STARTED IN 1979)
ONLINE INFORMATION
Extensive information available on uefa.org:
• UEFA Anti-Doping Regulations and WADA
Prohibited List
• Guides to Prohibited List, TUEs, whereabouts and
doping control procedure
• News articles on UEFA’s anti-doping activities
uefa.org/protecting-the-game/anti-doping
1998/9
2004/05
UEFA Champions League
92
212
813 urine + 268 blood
UEFA Cup/ Europa League
48
224
588 urine + 31 blood
UEFA Intertoto Cup
8
24
N/A
Futsal competitions
0
12
84 + 12
Youth competitions
0
64
340
Women’s competitions
0
28
52
UEFA Super Cup
4
4
4 +4
EURO
44
124
192
Total
196
692
2388
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2014/15
THERAPEUTIC USE EXEMPTIONS (TUEs)
2014/15
• TUE Committee (5 medical doctors with different
specialisms) + external experts
• Accepted: 30
• Recognised: 7
• Refused: 0