Purpose: to study the international sports arbitration court as the sole competent body for appeals against the decisions of national and international sports bodies. Material and Methods: the complex of General scientific methods of cognition, systemic method, formal logical, method of analysis and synthesis, method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete, as well as special legal methods: comparative-legal, formal-legal, normative-logical. Results: the used works in the field of sports arbitration and sports law, the works of foreign authors were analyzed. There is a "voluntary-compulsory" closed system of dispute resolution that exclude other ways of protecting the interests of athletes and sport organizations, including such as the ...