# Relegation and Promotion Adjustment Clause

Source: https://contracko.com/fr/bibliotheque-de-clauses/clause-de-relegation

# Relegation and Promotion Adjustment Clause

Adjusts a sponsorship fee up or down when the rights holder is promoted to or relegated from a competition tier.

## Ce que c'est

A relegation and promotion adjustment clause makes part of the agreed fee conditional on a sporting outcome. Relegation typically reduces the fee, shortens the term, or gives the sponsor a right to terminate; promotion typically increases it or triggers a bonus. The trigger is an external event on a fixed calendar, decided by a third party, and neither contracting party controls it.

## Pourquoi c'est important

It reallocates the commercial risk of sporting performance. A sponsor pays for the audience a tier delivers and does not want to fund a smaller one; a rights holder wants its downside capped and its upside captured. Because the adjustment is automatic but the paperwork is not, the recurring failure is administrative: the season ends, the tier changes, and nobody recalculates the affected agreements or serves notice in time.

## Comment l'appliquer

- Name the competition tiers precisely, and say what happens on a second consecutive relegation.
- State whether the adjustment is a percentage, a fixed sum, or a right to renegotiate, and when it takes effect.
- Fix the notice deadline by reference to the end of the season, not to a calendar date.
- Record the adjusted fee and the trigger as trackable fields so every affected contract can be found in one view.

## Exemple de formulation

> If the Club is relegated from the Eredivisie at the end of any Season, the Sponsorship Fee payable for the following Season shall be reduced by forty per cent (40%), and the Sponsor may terminate this Agreement by written notice given within thirty (30) days of the final match of that Season.

## Conseils de négociation

- • Rights holders should pair any relegation reduction with a matching promotion uplift rather than accept a one-way ratchet.
- • Sponsors should prefer a reduced fee to a termination right, since the audience does not disappear on relegation.

## Pièges courants

- • Leaving the notice deadline tied to a calendar date that falls before the season is decided.
- • Agreeing an adjustment but never identifying which of the other live sponsor contracts contain the same trigger.

### Comment Contracko aide

Contracko lets you store the adjusted fee, the trigger condition and the notice deadline as trackable fields on each sponsorship agreement, and set reminders ahead of the point in the season when the outcome is decided. When a result changes what the club is owed, every affected contract is one filter away rather than a manual trawl through the drive.

## Références juridiques

- [BW 6:21 Conditional obligations under Dutch civil law Droit néerlandais](https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005289)
- [BW 6:248 Reasonableness and fairness in contract performance Droit néerlandais](https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005289)

Sauf mention contraire, les références renvoient au droit néerlandais (Burgerlijk Wetboek, le Code civil néerlandais) ; les instruments de l'UE tels que le RGPD s'appliquent dans toute l'UE. Il s'agit d'informations générales, pas de conseils juridiques. D'autres juridictions traitent ces concepts différemment. Vérifiez le texte en vigueur et votre situation avec un avocat qualifié.

## Pertinent pour

[Clubs de football](https://contracko.com/fr/secteurs/clubs-de-football)[Management sportif](https://contracko.com/fr/secteurs/gestion-sportive)[Gestion d'événements](https://contracko.com/fr/secteurs/evenementiel)

## Clauses associées

- [Price Indexation Clause](https://contracko.com/fr/bibliotheque-de-clauses/indexation-des-prix)
- [Renewal and Notice Period Clause](https://contracko.com/fr/bibliotheque-de-clauses/renouvellement-et-preavis)
- [Termination for Convenience Clause](https://contracko.com/fr/bibliotheque-de-clauses/resiliation-pour-convenance)
- [Category Exclusivity Clause](https://contracko.com/fr/bibliotheque-de-clauses/exclusivite-de-categorie)

## Termes associés

- [Contract value](https://contracko.com/fr/glossaire/valeur-du-contrat)
- [Renegotiation](https://contracko.com/fr/glossaire/renegociation)
- [Term (duration)](https://contracko.com/fr/glossaire/duree)

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## Foire aux questions

Questions courantes sur cette clause.

- **Q:** Is a relegation clause a condition or a termination right?
  **A:** It can be either, and the drafting decides. A conditional fee adjusts automatically when the tier changes, while a termination right requires the sponsor to serve notice within a defined window. Many agreements contain both, which makes the notice deadline the operative date.

- **Q:** Should promotion trigger an increase as well?
  **A:** From the rights holder side, yes. If the sponsor is protected against a smaller audience it is reasonable for the rights holder to share in a larger one, whether as a fee uplift, a bonus, or an extension of the term on improved rates.

- **Q:** What happens to activation deliverables after relegation?
  **A:** Unless the clause says otherwise, they continue unchanged even though the fee has fallen. Good drafting scales the deliverables with the fee, or the rights holder ends up delivering top-tier inventory at a lower-tier price.

- **Q:** Who decides that relegation has occurred?
  **A:** The competition organiser, not the parties. The clause should therefore point to the final classification published by the league or federation, and measure the notice window from the last match of the season rather than from a calendar date.

- **Q:** Does a relegation clause affect the whole sponsor portfolio at once?
  **A:** Frequently, because the same trigger is written independently into several agreements. When a result changes the tier, each affected contract has to be recalculated and notice served where required, which is why the trigger is worth recording as a searchable field.

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