Research subjects · NASL backer
Rocco Commisso
Commisso backed NASL’s antitrust challenge to U.S. Soccer and MLS; the league’s claims failed at trial and on appeal.
NASL argued that soccer’s professional-league structure shut it out of the market. A jury rejected the claims, and the Second Circuit affirmed. Commisso was a backer of the plaintiff league, not the accused party in that lawsuit.
The acts and the record
NASL antitrust allegations and outcome
NASL alleged U.S. Soccer and MLS excluded it from professional soccer markets; a jury rejected its claims and the Second Circuit affirmed.
Outcome or limit: Commisso was NASL backer; he is not the accused party in this claim.
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