The status of a sportsman as an entrepreneur

1 The status of a sportsman as an entrepreneur Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the legal status of professional sportsmen, both in individual and collective sports. The main aim of this diploma thesis is to assess whether a professional sportman can perform his sporting activity as an entrepreneur or whether a professional sportman should be in the position of an employee. The diploma thesis is divided into 4 chapters, which are then divided into subchapters. The first chapter introduces to the reader the legal regulation of sport in the Czech Republic and points out its insufficiency in the field of sport. The second chapter analyses the legal status of professional sportsmen. The first subchapter deals with the legal status of sportsmen as entrepreneurs in relation to the effective legal regulation. The emphasis is on assessing whether the performance of a sporting activity fulfils all the characteristics of entrepreneurship as defined by the Civil Code. In this subchapter, I also addressed the question of whether sporting activitiy can be perform as a trade business. Based on the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court Case No. 6 Afs 278/2016, I concluded that sporting activitiy can perform as a trade business or an independent profession. The second subchapter focuses in more depth on the..